Word: blame
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...They got their knocks, and it was the same temperature on the other side of the field,” senior outfielder Tom Stack-Babich added. “I’m sure it affected us, but you can’t really blame it.”Harvard now faces a crucial stretch of baseball that, due to weather problems over the past week, will be concentrated in a three-day period. At noon today, the Crimson will play two against visiting Penn in a doubleheader pushed back after a rainy Saturday forecast. Tomorrow, the team will travel...
...Your wheel of blame was missing a crucial player: Ayn Rand. She was former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's free-market guru. Like President George W. Bush, Greenspan's belief in free markets blinded him to the dangers inherent in the subprime-mortgage market. How else can one explain his failure to respond to early and repeated warnings from the late Edward Gramlich, a member of the Fed board who recognized the dangers and addressed the matter (perhaps in frustration) last year in his book Subprime Mortgages: America's Latest Boom and Bust? Kim Gardey, President, Gardey Financial Advisors...
...assign more blame to President Bush and Greenspan than you did to home buyers? Home buyers made a conscious decision to extend themselves beyond their means; they are the ones who need to be held most accountable. Mortgage lenders were certainly greedy, but it was also greed that motivated buyers. We always blame someone else for our stupid decisions. Only with true personal accountability will lessons be learned. Dave Meyer, Sauk Rapids, Minnesota...
...this Gaian vision is worse than a fanciful environmentalist dream; it is also a way to lay blame in the lap of others. Unsurprisingly, Jensen’s favorite bête noire is “the corporations.” In his world, corporations aren’t just hapless profit-making machines linked up to an established social structure; they stand in for Satan’s armies committed to evil for evil’s sake. He talks convincingly of the futility of acting through government, but ruins the point with an unremitting focus on the extremes...
...blogosphere buzzed Tuesday morning with reactions ranging from amusement to confusion to irritation. Blame the economic turmoil, the Iraq war or the increasingly bitter presidential campaign for the less-than-warm reception than in years past: "I mean, hohoho, some of the richest men on Earth have done something to benefit humanity," one commenter writes. From another: "If this were real, China would beat us to it." Others scoffed that Google actually pays employees to produce these pranks. "A joke should have an element of humor. This one seems very sad. It's a shame they wouldn't contribute...