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...necessary for cooperation. Yet we let wealthy people buy their way out of cleaning sewers, and that’s pretty degrading work. It would certainly give a greater sense of shared responsibility if every household had to clean its own sewers or make its own steel in a backyard smelter, but no one seems to be pushing for these laws quite...
...cost. I would like to see his face when he receives the bill for 10 times as much in clean-up costs after floods, droughts, submerging coasts, skin cancer, lost crops, etc. Bush seems to have deluded himself into thinking he is not dumping his garbage in his own backyard, but the weather gods do not respect man-made boundaries. Instead of teaching Americans to respect their planet, he is leading them (and everyone else) to future suffering. SHANNON WALLER Barcelona...
...years after therapist Tera Abelson and cameraman Mark Wotton separated in 1992, they worked out creative doublenesting arrangements to enable both to continue living with their children. First, Tera moved into a tent in the backyard of their Massachusetts home. Later, she moved inside, and Mark slept in an enclosed porch. In 1995, after relocating to the San Francisco Bay Area, they were able to afford a large house in which they had bedrooms on separate floors. Initially, the children--Zoe, then 3, and Noa, 4--were oblivious to the separation. "The fact that Mark and I were parenting partners...
...given the tedious responsibility of arranging the funeral. He voices his obvious frustration with his role as he tells his wife Lucille, played by Vivica A. Fox (Idle Hands, Independence Day), “When I die, don’t tell anyone. Just bury me in the backyard, and tell them I left you!” In Kingdom Come, such funny one-liners are often followed by even more amusing scenes. In one particularly memorable moment, Aunt Marguerite and her son Royce are traveling in a beat-up Volkswagen beetle on their way to Mama Slocumb?...
...apologizing-for-something-I-didn't-do argument strikes me as deeply literal-minded - read narrow-minded. (It's a moral corollary to the not-in-my-own-backyard syndrome.) In general, I find that the same people who reject the idea of collective guilt are the very ones who take pride in the victories and achivements of institutions with which they identify - say their universities or community - but have not in any way contributed. That's hypocrisy in my book...