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...hatred of lawyers intrinsic in Western culture. One of the most famous and oft-repeated lines in Shakespeare's King Henry VI is, "First thing we'll do / let's kill all the lawyers!" Even those considered forward thinkers of their respective eras hold back nothing in expressing their disgust with the profession. Charles Dickens is remembered to have said, "If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers," and Benjamin Franklin once noted, "God works wonders now and then: Behold! a lawyer, an honest...
...remainder of his journalistic career, he will be remembered for one thing: he was the editor who slapped a portrait of Clarence Thomas wearing an Aunt Jemima-style handkerchief on a 1993 cover of Emerge magazine. That shocking image outraged Thomas' supporters, of course, but it crystallized the disgust that many African Americans had begun to feel about the ultraconservative legal philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court's only black member. It also put Emerge on the map. "It let people know there was nothing and no one we were afraid to take on," says Curry. "A lot of people...
Political apathy is not the only factor driving students away from careers in politics and government, however. Disgust and disillusionment may push some out of politics, but the enticements of private sector jobs lure still more away...
What are the right reasons and the wrong reasons? I'd say capital punishment ultimately cannot even be discussed rationally. One's views on the subject emerge from instincts about human nature, from hidden places in the heart. One's instincts may conflict. My disgust at capital punishment, for example, violates my sense of justice and my fierce impulse to retaliate. But I am revolted by the bloodlust in myself, especially when I find it mirrored - honored! - in our culture and in so many of its works. I mean to say nothing more complicated than this: I think that capital...
...gets back to sneering, throwing out the angriest of accusations even at his milder detractors. He can rant energetically for 15 minutes at a go, claiming his purported atrocities are concoctions of his enemies. "Pure fabrication" are words he repeats over and over, and he has nothing but disgust for nonmembers of his Revolutionary United Front...