Word: drool
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...bills go, the $1.35 trillion cut George W. Bush signs into law this week is relatively free of special provisions to satisfy special interests. Yes, there are education tax breaks slipped into the final bill that'll make college presidents and private school headmasters drool. Republican and Democratic senators on the tax-writing panels are sure to get a few thank-you notes from millionaires and corporate CEOs. But by and large, Bush got the clean bill he wanted. And more important he got it before Democrats took control of the Senate. "I'm really pleased that we've already...
Last year's swarm of millennial retrospectives put a peculiar emphasis on Gutenberg's invention of moveable type, as if it prefigured all subsequent media revolutions: television, the Internet, etc. What the Discovery Channel failed to drool over was the near-simultaneous development of printmaking. In the fifteenth century, woodcuts and engravings were accessible to an audience much larger than the small literate classes, and even today we cannot claim to be anything other than a visual culture. Early prints should be as important to us as early editions of the Bible...
Hence the elaborate symphony of hormonal responses that prompts us to fall in love with our drool-faced, incontinent offspring. Hence too the many cunning and often unladylike features of primate motherhood: the sexual promiscuity that, in some species, may help ensure the acquisition of top-grade sperm; the scheming for status, since primate babies, including human ones, often inherit mom's social position; the use of alternative caretakers when mom is tired or busy...
...legitimate form of entertainment. To do this, I usually use words like "Aristotelian catharsis," but recently someone asked me to explain what that meant, which didn't go so well, so I don't say that anymore. But I know it doesn't mean "dumb guy who likes to drool over half-naked women with sand strategically affixed to them." I explained my opinions to Rebecca Romijn-Stamos when I interviewed her last year, and she responded by telling me that all men who like sports are stupid and that I had some issues to deal with. I told...