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...hall to the hordes too lazy to make the trek to Quincy. Adams continued capitalizing on their best asset in their Assassins game, opting for a dining hall theme of spoons as weapons. FlyBy heard the requirement that the spoon make skin contact in order for a kill to count brought out hoodies and fleeces along with the occasional facemask and gloves. Yeah... told you these people were intense...
...match up to Cheap Trick in part because the rest of the album fails to maintain the melodic quality of the first three songs. Power pop sans hooks is music that has entirely lost its raison d’être, and most of the album disappoints on this count, with generic, unmemorable riffs and bland choruses. But an even more egregious failure is the lyrical descent from enjoyable silliness to ponderous platitudes. Not only would such lines as “Without love you have nothing to shoot for” do James Blunt or Chris Martin proud, they...
...efforts of Obama to calm the citizenry about (since, after all, there have only been about 110 cases of, and one - count it! - one death from in a nation of 300 million) are compromised by dire warnings issuing from carelessly flapping Biden lips...
York, Byron •Obama's high approval ratings are dismissed by as merely the result of lots of blacks liking him, making his positions seem "more popular overall than they actually are" - that is, more popular among all people than they actually are among the only people who really count, white ones
...keep track of the thousands of sheets of paper for which he is responsible every year. He has a log book—dating back to the eight years that he has worked in the office—that he carefully fills out every day with a running count of the folders made, and the number sent out to readers, or “cleared.” “See here in July and August,” he says, pointing to his records, “these are the kids who are very anxious and applied before...