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Still, an increasingly large cadre of prominent academics has stepped forward to question the acceptibility of this trend. Famed UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh has posted mildly bitter invective to his weblog slamming court citations of Wikipedia as absurd given the nature of the source, but the most florid prose on the subject comes perhaps from Robert McHenry, chief of the (less and less popular—let’s keep our private interests straight) Encyclopedia Britannica. McHenry has compared Wikipedia to a public restroom: Such a facility may be obviously dirty, he has said, or it may look...
Each of the few who did make a run for it was hamstrung in some way, such as former Texas Representative Martin Frost, still hurting from a bitter power struggle with House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, and former Indiana Representative Tim Roemer, a pro-lifer who voted for George W. Bush's tax cuts and against Bill Clinton's 1993 economic plan...
...related collectibles is less like an indulgence than an investment. With the passage of time, such keepsakes can be expected to grow steadily in value, both monetary and sentimental. Or so my na?ve great aunts assumed. But then came the extramarital affairs, the sordid taped phone calls, the bitter divorce, and the tragic automobile crash. These events not only broke my loved one's hearts, they rendered their costly collections of royal curios virtually worthless...
...hill overlooking the western tip of Lake Superior. Its population has dwindled as the iron mines have dried up, and young people move on in search of the metropolitan lifestyle Duluth fights to insulate itself from. Buried in the snows of long winters, residents hole up in the bitter cold with wool and addiction, the pace of life slowing to a crawl. Last Saturday the band’s frigid notes resonated just as well with the thawing tundra setting of the Somerville Theater...
Sure, Warner’s theory is pure demagoguery at its worst and ends up being a high-minded excuse for slutty behavior, but why do obnoxious couples have to parade around their sickening bliss in front of the romantically impoverished masses of the singles population? Am I bitter? Of course not. I just hate...