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Take, for example, Al Gore's nonsense about how he will "keep the prosperity going." This is akin to the airline passenger's illusion that by gripping the armrests tightly, he is keeping the 747 aloft. No. The Clinton-Gore administration had the luck to be born at the takeoff of an immense technological revolution. The idea that Clinton-Gore created the fruits and abundance thereof is magic thinking of a childish kind. It seems especially silly considering the billions and billions in All-Daddy, big-state promises that Gore has made - the chicken in every pot, the government...
...Overdubbing is always the most time-consuming part of an album. It is analogous to working on a painting: rather than a live recording (which, to continue the metaphor, would be akin to a photograph), where one moment is captured in time, the studio album is built up from a base, with layers added, changed, added again and perfected. On top of vocals, our colleague Frisbay added his trombone, flute, trumpet and organ parts in the remaining few, hectic days...
...CALL It's hard enough to remember what to do at 2 a.m. on Oct. 29, when the nation reverts to standard time (hint: "fall back"). But many folks have an even bigger problem. Their internal body rhythm remains so out of synch that for days they experience something akin to jet lag. If this sounds like you, you might try this novel, melatonin-based regimen...
Fact is, I don't like thinking very much. And I'm not especially good at it. I can do a little in a pinch--and some of my best friends think--but most of the time I'd take a sentiment over a thought. Sentiments are akin to reflexes in sports. And you can hold on to them long past your prime...
These were not crimes of passion, of money, of gangsters. They were crimes of desperation, and they have stirred up a panic about teenagers akin to the consternation in the U.S. after the school shootings of the past few years...