Word: deviled
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...liquid tenor, at times quavering with the infusion of the Spirit (perhaps holy, perhaps profane) that Jerry Lee heard and sang in the Assembly of God meetings of his youth. Which is of course at the sundered heart of his music: a wrasslin' match between the Deity and the Devil. Jerry Lee, whose cousin is the evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, has often said he is a man of God doing Satan's work. His music, beginning with "Whole Lotta Shakin'," imparts much of the thrill and dread of someone who has taken the Lord's gift and twisted it to make...
...wanted to touch him, to touch his body. And the kids got something out of it. The people in this situation, you know, they aren't going to get that." That's why You're Missing is one song that does not end hopefully: "God's drifting in heaven, devil's in the mailbox/Got dust on my shoes, nothing but teardrops...
...policy decisions should be fought over in the public arena. The nature of the fight is different; instead of professional politicians debating, voters are deluged by constant and contradictory campaign ads until they're not sure if a proposal is common sense or the work of the devil. And in government, politicians can make compromises. Voters only get to say yes or no on ballot initiatives...
...sanctuaries, capturing hundreds of its operatives in the process. Still, there was no company for Moussaoui in the U.S. criminal justice system. For his comrades captured in Afghanistan, there was no habeas corpus or court-appointed counsel. They were packed off to the U.S. military's own version of Devil's Island 90 miles off the coast of Florida and interrogated in circumstances unthinkable anywhere that U.S. Federal law applied. Yet there was Moussaoui showered with court-appointed attorneys, his own ranting second-guessed by American jurists concerned that he get the legal protections guaranteed by the constitution...
...fiery holocaust. "The word apocalypse," he observes, "comes from a Greek word that literally means 'lifting of the veil.' In an apocalyptic age, people feel that the veil of normal, secular reality is lifting, and we can see behind the scenes, see where God and the devil, good and evil are fighting to control the future." To the extent that more people in the U.S. and around the world believe history is accelerating, that ancient prophecies are being fulfilled in real time, "it changes the way people feel about their circumstances, and the way they act. The grays are beginning...