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...spring weather. But now, thanks to the "open university," the irate 'shmen are fighting back. If they can't have their frisbees on the smelly fertilizer, then divestment activists certainly can't have an ivory tower--taking up the space of thousands of frisbees but not helping anyone burn off calories...
Utilities, businesses, homeowners and others who still burn natural gas are winning lower costs as their fuel suppliers try to compete with oil. Consolidated Natural Gas of Pittsburgh says that its 1.5 million customers are already enjoying savings of up to 20%. If the price of petroleum keeps plunging, however, gas companies will be hard pressed to compete with fuel-oil dealers...
...better yet, it runs up against a brick wall: how can the quiet rationality of a policy investigation make sense of police who machine gun like gangsters, a city that drops a bomb on itself, firemen who start fires and watch them burn? The whole thing is a demonic inversion...
Even more so than the bomb, the committee found "unconscionable" the use of the fire as a "tactical weapon." Yet, what is so demonic, so "unconscionable" about the tactics of letting the fire burn to force the people out of the building, is that it's so rational. So pathologically rational. So...unconscious. The strategic rationality of standing around on the scene, walkie-talkie in hand, and issuing orders to let the fire burn runs right over into unreason, into the unconscious in "unconscionable...
...next morning on the flight line, these guardian angels suck in liters of pure oxygen, trying desperately to burn the alcohol out of their system before take-off time. Sure, you might die, but you're living life the way it's got to be lived...