Word: conscious
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...American Idol in 2002. While "28 million" and "winner" are positives in the context of reality television, singing the swollen talent-show ballad A Moment Like This in a prom dress with mascara cascading down your face is not the kind of thing that endears you to cool-conscious pop-music fans. Just in case Clarkson's victory tableau didn't create enough skeptics about her chances for a successful recording career, she followed it up with From Justin to Kelly, a monstrous Idol movie musical that in the most generous light is the worst film so far this century...
...easy for people to get riled up. And when someone insults something that they are either self-conscious, self-righteous or insecure about, the knee-jerk reaction is to become indignant. Down with t-shirts that make fun of my race! Shame on them for using humor I do not find funny! But what it comes down to, upon closer inspection, or even any kind of rational thought, is that one cannot find any offensive intent on the part of Spencer’s. They may be making shirts that just aren’t funny, and are clearly...
...solely class-based analysis both in their rhetoric and politics. Simon deserves credit for the way he deconstructs the statistics cited by the pro-war Heritage Institute, demonstrating the principle that statistics cited out of context tend to represent a selective view of data that is subject to conscious or unconscious bias. Simon correctly faults Heritage’s numbers for comparing apples and oranges—the average income of recruits’ families versus the average income of all families, instead of just families with recruiting-age children. A more thorough deconstruction is needed however, not just...
...ascent to power will be a new "tone of mutual respect" between the two capitals. Harper's Arctic admonition could rekindle the old doubts, but improvements in the U.S.-Canada relationship will probably come through a mutual recognition of the new "geopolitical realities" in an energy-hungry and security-conscious North America, says Professor John Thompson, who teaches Canadian studies at North Carolina's Duke University. And no one is better positioned to exploit those new realities than Harper, thanks to networks in place among western Canadian conservatives, Calgary oil barons and U.S. Republicans. As a result, some long-simmering...
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