Word: decentering
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...some people who might actually call Al's selection of me an act of chutzpah," he said in Nashville, using the familiar Yiddish word for audacity. Lieberman has chutzpah too. At first glance you figure he will bore you silly, but he grows on you--his voice is a decent instrument, and he obviously enjoys playing it. His basic tune, about an immigrant's grandson who was the first in his family to attend college and now might be Vice President, is an American classic. He makes no effort to conceal how tickled he is to be on the ticket...
While the m100 is roughly twice as thick as my Vx and slightly longer, it has some decent cosmetic touches. Snap-on face plates, for instance, so you can color-coordinate it with your cell phone or shoes or whatever. And the flip-down plastic lid that protects the screen has a little porthole cut out so you can see the clock. This is not exactly revolutionary, but it's smart...
...around to that about 11:20, to the consternation of nightly-news producers who lost a night's ad revenue. Al Gore, he said - in a speech punctuated with some unfortunately familiar-looking finger-wagging -was a profoundly decent man who loved his children, a leader who understood the challenges facing America in the twenty-first century. Al Gore put people above partisanship. He was born in Tennessee, in the wagon of a traveling show. His mama used to dance for the money they'd throw...
...just like the music execs who fume and rant about "those damn hackers stealing artists' music," the L.A. Times story quoted an executive at a pattern making company who called the several hundred online pattern swappers (mostly middle aged housewives) "the scourge of all that is decent and right." Please...
...people backing Bush thought they were voting for the hero of the Gulf War. It was nice that Barbara had consistently topped the list of most popular women in the country and that the focus groups found people had warm memories of the clan--"Nice family. Honest. Decent." But too much emphasis on the family tie could do more harm than good...