Word: argumentive
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...really good President" and dropped the Urkel bit entirely. He says he's going to try the concept first on The Daily Show next week and then, depending on how it plays, platform it out nationally. And we devised a pretty smart argument that while Nader might be responsible for every drop of blood spilled in Iraq, he also helped end global warming. Nader came up with his own bit about how he must also be responsible for sunspots, which made me more than a little nervous about letting the man deliver my material...
...make normal and appropriate feelings of sadness (or anxiety or anger) go away; a person whose brain chemistry is balanced (with or without the aid of medication) feels sad, even miserable—just not hopeless or suicidal for months or years on end. (Thus, the argument that antidepressants eliminate great art is not only incredibly selfish—let others suffer so that I may look at paintings!— it is misinformed: even if suffering does enable the production of profound literature or heartrending symphonies, antidepressants do not by any means eliminate suffering...
...misconception may prove to be the bitterest pill to swallow. Though proponents of the “overmedication” argument may believe that they have their countrymen’s best interests in mind, their ignorant and often plainly false pronouncements may only serve to dissuade an already under-reached population from seeking the treatment they need. After all, while there’s no such thing as a happy pill, there is such thing as a loud and uninformed...
...indicative of how she’s viewed there.” Many of Greenhouse’s devotees cited the clarity and accessibility of her accounts of court proceedings and decisions as the key to her influence. “I think her reports of oral argument have been better than any accounts of oral argument that I’ve ever seen,” said Harvard law professor Richard H. Fallon.Greenhouse even educated professors, Tribe said.“There’s no one and I literally mean no one—even as a senior...
...rival party run by Shi'ite strongman Moqtada al-Sadr, who leads the contentious, trigger-happy Mahdi Army. Abdul-Medhi said that the Provincial Powers law contravened the constitutional right of voters of each province to elect their own governor (a sort of states rights versus federal powers argument, in American constitutional parlance...