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...members are now bogged down in debate over a piece of legislation that has virtually no chance of producing any real results. Spurred by what are probably good intentions, House members are arguing a measure designed to keep American Internet users away from web gambling sites - with apparent disregard for two important facts. One, their goal is virtually impossible to achieve, and two, the American web-surfing public may not appreciate the presence of a federal baby-sitter...
...address to the young men's lyceum, Lincoln worried that this impulse was responsible for increasing disregard of law, which he thought important because "if destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." This, in turn, threatened to break down the people's attachment to their political institutions...
Opponents of the Vermont initiative and of gay marriage in general said they were disturbed by the legislature's disregard of social norms...
...What have we expected art to do for us in the last quarter century? On the one hand, the Time Boxes seem utterly a product of the 1990s, in their disregard for salability, in the intimate nature of their intent. The boxes are found objects, but personalized as specific gifts for a specific recipient. On the other hand, the project does have the '80s element of hype, the building-up of an event, the sole purpose of which is to create something tangible out of what began as a private activity. And even in the performative nature of the opening...
What has inspired these activists to disregard response papers and problem sets and put their physical safety at risk...