Word: bogged
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...bonobo, is not as tightly coupled to reproduction as certain pro-family moralists like to think. Even in so-called primitive hunter-gatherer societies, such as that of the Australian Aborigines, women have always managed to invent forms of contraception--herbal drinks, pessaries to block the cervix, oils to bog down the sperm. Then there is homosexuality, a reproductively senseless but nevertheless deeply compelling sexual strategy for millions of both sexes. Not to mention masturbation, celebrated by rapper Foxy Brown's chart-topping song Ill Na Na, in which she promises to "hold my own like...
...service, which enables your existing phone line to carry data at rates as fast as 1.5 million BPS. That's only half the maximum of many cable services, but DSL gives you "dedicated" bandwidth. Cable systems make you share bandwidth with other subscribers in your neighborhood, and things may bog down if you all go online after dinner. As with cable, DSL lets you stay "always on" the Internet since a single digital line can handle voice and data calls simultaneously...
...some extent the prose-poem collection Stations in their use of language to delve into the fertile cultural expanses of his childhood in Ireland. This "digging" into his private and cultural past (first addressed in his famous poem by that same name) soon unearthed the central myth of the bog people, men and women (apparently sacrificed to Mother Earth to guarantee a good harvest in prehistoric times) that were recently found in the swamplands of Jutland and Ireland, perfectly preserved and fully intact. After composing a series of "bog poems" in which Heaney identified the subverted society of his native...
...famous "bog poems" by Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winning poet and Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet, agonizes over the problems of place and the mixed emotions of homecoming. Often compared by critics to noted expatriates (and fellow Nobel Laureates) Joseph Brodsky and Czeslaw Milosz, Heaney frequently writes about returning as an outsider to his homeland in Ireland. There he finds a rich heritage of language and myth, subjugated by the fear-driven assimilation of British culture forced upon Ireland with the onset of "The Troubles...
...human wonder like nothing since Helen of Troy. We're the "wired" generation, throwing out those silly paper books and riding the digital wave. Isn't that correct? Swell. Excuse me for not exuding giddiness over a development that, for all its great potential, still exists largely as a bog of mental quicksand for perverts and ninth-graders (often one and the same) to wade around in. Right now the experts are claiming that the Internet will forge a bond of understanding and goodwill across the globe. Of course, if you'll recall, the previous generation of experts said...