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...pickups and cars in Livingston, Montana, a bowlegged-cowboy town of slightly more than 6,000 notable for a giant rock formation allegedly resembling a sleeping Jesus, a popular bumper sticker declares, THERE ISN'T MUCH TO SEE IN A SMALL TOWN, BUT YOU SURE DO HEAR A LOT. And the place in Livingston where you mostly hear it--rumors about layoffs at the lumber mill, fishing reports on the nearby Yellowstone River--is the downtown post office. The 1914 beaux arts sandstone edifice, surrounded by coffee shops, saddleries and movie theaters that have survived the town's trend toward...
Madalyn, who had known poverty in her younger years, began to enjoy the pleasures that money can buy. American Atheists did a healthy business selling Godless books, posters, bumper stickers (HONK IF YOU LOVE MADALYN; APES EVOLVED FROM CREATIONISTS) and "solstice cards" for the areligious at holiday times. Perhaps more important, Madalyn, like many of her clerical foes, became adept at persuading elderly members to leave American Atheists their last bequests. In 1986, when she moved the organization into its current red brick headquarters, she claimed to have paid in cash the full cost of $1 million-plus. Jon Murray...
...impossible to visit a site on the Web that doesn't have a tiny banner with advertisements plastering it like bumper stickers. Still, these ads typically defray only a tiny cost of the site. The conventional wisdom holds that most people ignore banner ads as they look through a Web site...
...talk. Toward the end of his speech, I make the disturbing observation that the audience's enthusiasm is inversely proportional to the complexity of the thoughts being conveyed. Only in the rare moments when Wellstone takes the nuances out of his discussion and tones it down into soundbites and bumper sticker phrases does the crowd really let him have...
Here is a sampling of bumper stickers spotted by Dartboard on the fine automobiles traveling Harvard's narrow thoroughfares this past semester...