Word: bastardize
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...Federal Emergency Management Agency to house homeless parish employees, councilman-at-large Joey DiFatta is echoing that subversive sentiment after hearing some critics in Washington claim that St. Bernard should not be rebuilt at all. "I'll tell you why we need to rebuild this parish. When that bastard up north is paying $5 a gallon because the two biggest oil refineries in Louisiana--both located here--are not producing gas for his fat-cat car, that's when he'll learn about St. Bernard Parish," he says. "They better realize we count. The rest of the nation capitalizes...
Without any ideological ballast, the Bush Presidency resembles nothing more than the bastard child of the Harding and Johnson administrations: from cronyism at home (from Brown at FEMA to the Miers nomination) and abroad (Iraq reconstruction contracts), to overly ambitious Great Society spending at home (Medicaid) and quagmire wars (Iraq, again). If, despite a comfortable Senate majority, Bush will not or cannot nominate a bold constructionist to the Supreme Court, it is clear that the administration and the Republican Party at large are without cohesive intellectual principles, message or vision; they are unified only by their short-term desire...
...painting is a sign about where in one of his 40 houses he keeps that particular piece, or, better yet, how he carries it with him to each of his 40 houses. The title? “Things I Love: The Many Collections of William Koch”. That bastard...
...Lucky bastard. I'm going to be signing books out in public...
...able to continue more easily to be her mother's lover." As a gossip, Field has it both ways. Nabokov's grandmother Maria and Alexander II "must have been fleeting lovers." In one breath, this relationship could mean that the novelist's father was the Czar's bastard son. In the next gasp, the possibility is dismissed on the ground that Alexander had another mistress at the time. There is solid evidence that Nabokov was a randy young adult and had at least one serious extramarital entanglement. There is also the assertion that he was a spiritualist who believed...