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Even taste sensations can travel through the brain and loop back to muscles. Tasting a nutrient, he says, stimulates an area of the brain responsible for muscle reflexes, so that a patient with a liver condition can swirl bile salts on his tongue and feel his pectorals strengthen...
...after six years, I have no speeches or intellectual response. I am just absolutely sick of hearing about Mansfield and of the warm feeling of bile that seeps into my stomach every time I hear about his unsubstantiated statements. Where is his evidence...
...disenfranchisement. A sober, reasoned settlement, theorized on the New York Times editorial page and worked out behind closed doors, may be the quickest route to stability. Or it may leave people reasonably suspecting that they've been sold out by secretive mandarins. Say what you will about the bile-spewing cable culture of call-in shows and town halls, it's all about enfranchisement: zapping your e-mail to CNN or MSNBC, hustling down to a live camera shoot with a homemade picket sign...
...disenfranchisement. A sober, reasoned settlement, theorized on the New York Times editorial page and worked out behind closed doors, may be the quickest route to stability. Or it may leave people reasonably suspecting that they've been sold out by secretive mandarins. Say what you will about the bile-spewing cable culture of call-in shows and town halls, it's all about enfranchisement: zapping your e-mail to CNN or MSNBC, hustling down to a live camera shoot with a homemade picket sign...
...overseas cousins. Indeed, the people who should hate this type of Anglophile the most are the British. For with some exceptions (Absolutely Fabulous, The Young Ones), the original British shows that Americans have most dearly embraced have reinforced a safe, neutered image of Britons, all Anglo veneer, no Saxon bile. (Let's not count the decades-old Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, which, however brilliant, are as representative of today's Britain as a suet pudding...