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Existence in our cold universe requires constant vigilance, a continual battle against entropy, not warm words and the delusion that we are somehow "different." Contrary to the inaugural ramblings of George W., no angel is directing this whirlwind of a universe. The sooner we admit that no magical blanket, no invisible, magical spirit protects us from our own stupidity, the more probable it becomes that we will survive for a significant chunk of time. It is time that we grow up, finally make a wife of science, face facts, take responsibility for our own survival and use our new bride...
...wonders what passage Brother Jim marked at the end. When Elijah laid himself down and prepared to die, an angel of the Lord came visiting with freshly baked cake and gave Elijah the strength to carry on. When Brother Jim prepared to die, the angel of death apparently gave him the strength to pull the trigger twice. Both bullets pierced his heart...
...black eye it sustains when cases of fraud or sales of offensive items hit the news. Last month a California man was charged with selling $110,000 in computers and consumer electronics on eBay but not delivering. And there was a minor dustup last fall when convicted serial killer Angel Resendez-Ramirez boasted in a television interview that his hair and shavings from calluses on his feet had been sold on eBay...
...there are repeated references to infant deaths and faithless lovers, and both the title track and her collaboration with the Irish band Altan on her 30-year-old "Down From Dover" evoke the appropriate sense of dread. But in the most ambitious of these efforts, the mountain-gothic "Mountain Angel," Parton's narrative of a woman driven mad by grief is undercut by her cutesy, breathy delivery, a rare misstep for this most intuitive of singers...
...Hasty Pudding Theatricals has selected Charlie's Angel's star Drew Barrymore and Hannibal's Anthony Hopkins as its man and woman of the year, the group announced earlier this week...