Word: botherations
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...what matters. Those of us in black public life who try to stay focused on the opportunities rather than the obstacles, those of us who most often proffer intracommunal critique, well, let's just say it'll be a while before I'll be criticizing my own again. Why bother? I'll get over it, but till then ... why bother...
...this one beats them all. It is constantly out of tune, out of rhythm, out of sync, and it single-handedly ruins a few otherwise excellent musical numbers. At the beginning of the second act, as the orchestra started tuning, all I could think was, “Why bother...
...that ended our season last year. I thought we were really patient, and we were taking pitches, getting deep in the count. I knew if we got in the bullpen, we had a shot.” As for the weather, the frigid climate did not seem to bother Haviland, who pitched in short sleeves. “I was hoping it was going to be colder actually,” Haviland said. “I love the cold. You can throw inside a little more, because if you get jammed, you’re done...
...recently argued, “The government can’t sell power and influence it doesn’t have.” If the federal trough were smaller, fewer special interest snouts could gorge themselves at the taxpayers expense, and therefore the pigs wouldn’t bother to buy influence. Diminishing the opportunities for rent-seeking would, in turn, redirect spending to investment and consumption, both of which create more social good than financing another attack...
...sleep and dreams, these are promising times. But there's been no year more momentous than 1953. Until then, scientists had equated sleep with flicking off a desk lamp. For more than two decades they'd been able to record brain activity in sleep, but the feeling was, why bother? Why waste reams of costly graph paper making electroencephalogram recordings of what was thought to be a neurological desert? With no strong expectation of finding otherwise, University of Chicago researchers Eugene Aserinski and Nathaniel Kleitman decided it was worth doing, monitoring 10 subjects in a laboratory. Their findings turned...