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...Well, they'd have to...measure it erect. I mean, like...
Ironically, the news came just as I thought I'd reached a detente with the boosters on the subject of meat. Several years ago, I suggested dismantling one of the fountains and using the material to erect a monument to Henry Perry, who brought barbecue to Kansas City. Since I had just suggested that the airport, which they called Kansas City International, be named after Arthur Bryant, perhaps the most distinguished of Perry's spiritual descendants, and that a major Missouri River bridge be named for Chicken Betty Lucas, the legendary pan-fryer, some people thought my suggestion about...
...what's it like to live, work and play in one of those dozens of places that dress up billboards, fly flags and erect monuments and museums to a product or an idea? You've come to the right place, because we have all the answers, centered, as we are, in the news and information capital of the world. We have sat on porches and in parlors, toured factories and roamed Main Streets. We will now take you to the fireworks capital of the entire galaxy--or at least of Pennsylvania--and whisk you into the clouds to meet...
...from the identity politics of the multicultural left. He points out the folly in the idea that a shared Asian-American identity can be woven from the many strands--Japanese, Korean, Indian, Pakistani--of Asians in America. And he argues further that racial groupthink can stir up resentments and erect walls among the races. But Liu recognizes the importance of preserving ethnic ties, and unlike many conservatives, he resists dismissing those who still yearn for racial belonging. "While racial identity is sometimes a shackle," he writes, "it is not only a shackle...
When smokers' rights are curtailed in traditional smoking havens, from baseball bleachers to California bars, the opponents of smoking are no longer invoking concerns for their own health. Rather, they have adopted an unnerving paternalism. Smoking, to them, is a dangerous, disgusting life choice; so they presumptuously erect barriers against it for others...