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They are probably right. I would have to be pretty dumb to come back to a country where the in-your-face disparity between the rich and the poor makes my stomach turn. The income gap here is not any wider than that of many developed countries, including the United States. But when there’s no middle class in a country of only 4 million people in an area the size of the state of Delaware, the contrast between rich and poor is appalling. Just 10 minutes outside Beirut in the Palestinian camps or the Shiite suburbs...
Since the release of their previous album, Hello, Nasty, in 1998, the Beastie Boys have accumulated an aura of seriousness that is almost wholly undeserved. It's true that they issued a long-overdue apology for the homophobia of their historically dumb first record, 1986's Licensed to Ill, and continued to champion the cause of Tibetan freedom. But in much the same way that Condoleezza Rice's oft repeated desire to be commissioner of the NFL hardly makes her a jock, the Beasties' hopes for a free Tibet don't make them statesmen. The Tibet thing was just...
...processed foods hog ever larger portions of all Americans' diets--one reason we spend just a tenth of our incomes on food today, compared with a fifth in 1950. But a pound of lean steak costs a lot more than a pound of hot dogs. "The stomach is a dumb organ," says J. Larry Brown, director of the Center on Hunger and Poverty in Waltham, Mass. "It doesn't know anything about quality. It knows only when it's full...
Peter Kielland's "Fish" combines the absurdity of "The Octopi" with the sweep of "Leviathan." The title character, a fish with feet, wanders through the ages, mostly in terror and under pursuit. He begins at the dawn of man and witnesses the arrival of aliens who zap the dumb apes with higher consciousness. Uninterested in such goings on he goes to sleep and somehow wakes up in the early twenty-first century. Soon he goes from barroom oddity to household pet to valuable commodity. Escaping it all, he falls asleep and wakes up during the apocalypse where he soon becomes...
...news flash for you, Walter Cronkite. It’s the system, stupid! Tebucky Jones was never that good—he succeeds because he’s playing in a great scheme. Ty Poole, David Givens, Dan Klecko—these guys are bit players. But dumb teams will see them as “winners” or “up-and-comers” and will continue to hand New England top picks, extending the first NFL dynasty of the tight salary-cap era. And in 2040, after the Patriots’ eleventy-billionth Super Bowl...