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...what about the SUV drivers who never leave the dry pavement of the suburbs? I'll confess that they bother me too, sometimes, especially when they drive Hummers and other mutant monstrosities of the sport-utility class that have gone and ruined things for the rest of us. I understand that when people buy SUVs, they often delude themselves about how they will use them, imagining wind-whipped sand dunes and alpine lakes. But why in the world would someone need a Hummer? An armed incursion into downtown Tampa...
...truth about evil that needs attention now is its shallow, deadly, fungus quality. Nice people - especially in a tiny, multicultural world in which different civilizations inhabit different centuries - are often moved to evil deeds, like blowing up the Other. Don't bother demonizing people as being inherently evil (as Satan is evil). That's not how it works. Opportunistic evil passes like an electric current through the world and through people, or wanders like an infection that takes up residence in individuals or cultures from time to time...
...impatience extended into the laboratory. Safety standards were lower in those days, and, in her eagerness to get results, Franklin often didn't bother with protective gear, even when working with radiation. Bold as she was in her work, however, Franklin was curiously standoffish with regard to the opposite sex. According to her biographer, Brenda Maddox, Franklin was still ignorant of the facts of life as late as her third year in college--this from a student of biochemistry...
There you have the essence of reality TV's success: it is the one mass-entertainment category that thrives because of its audience's contempt for it. It makes us feel tawdry, dirty, cheap--if it didn't, we probably wouldn't bother tuning in. And in this, for once, the audience and critics agree. Just listen to the raves for America's hottest TV genre...
...center of town, killing four civilians and wounding 27 others, according to official Iraqi figures. The Pentagon says its forces were responding to Iraqi fire. "Bush has enough rockets to hit every home in Basra," says a homemaker who lives next to the compound. "Why should we bother to stock up food when we're all going to be dead soon...