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Part of the reasoning is straightforward save-my-ass selfishness: "I figured something like this would happen so I took a course and became a minister of the Universal Light Church Inc," one said. Others talked--seriously--of going to Canada, of going underground, of becoming conscientious objectors should the draft resume. But the personal motives mask a core of political beliefs. Americans may have forgotten about Vietnam, but it doesn't take much to remind them, and draft registration brings memories back to the surface. Exxon and Mobil will be distressed to learn that large numbers of America...
First of all, it is highly offensive. "Sometimes I slip it between those honeydew melons." Think for a minute about what it is like to be a woman in America (after all, just a tad of being a writer is empathy, right?)--getting ass-grabbed on the way to the Coop for typing paper, every goddam man on the street slobbering for those "honeydow melons" and letting you know it, whether you're dressed like Radcliffe '80 or Radcliffe '08--caged in by glossy magazine photos of surrogates for you spread-eagled--sitting at dining-hall tables while fellow students...
...read that a man whose speeding car had been stopped by a motorcycle policeman, who without a search warrant forced him to open his trunk that contained ... corpses ... walks out of court scot-free because the evidence is ruled inadmissible-we can only conclude that the law is an ass...
...Listen, Jeb, Goddamn it. Get your ass to a secure phone and call me, or I guarantee by noon Mitchell will be building you a new one." I hung...
...closeups of the washing of your dirty linen in the public square; you teach us how to "whip someone's ass"; million-dollar Hollywood stars fall over each other to entertain us; we get the intimate life story of all your candidates, etc. Just imagine how boring it would be if you did the whole thing in less than three weeks. May it never happen...