Word: evil
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...realizes some Republicans worship the Gipper as though he were a golden god, but alas, the man is a mortal—and he wasn’t a particularly good president, either. For astronomically inflating the deficit and absentmindedly posing for photo ops while the “evil empire” went under on the other side of the planet, Reagan’s moniker has already been slapped on an aircraft carrier, a federal building—hell! even our nation’s capital has an airport in his name...
...Manny in left, and A-Rod replaces Nomar at shortstop, look out, Brenda Lee. Put your party hats on Boston, because 2004 will replace 1918 in sports vernacular for the remainder of history. And if the Red Sox don’t win, blame Brenda. She’s evil...
...which I agreed with, since the organization totally disrupted last year's Victoria's Secret fashion show. Then he said she was the same as Osama bin Laden. I questioned that, mostly because PETA hasn't killed anyone. He said that all terrorists were equal and that parsing out evil made me a sympathizer. I questioned his epistemology, at which point he called me a "stupid liberal kike," which caused the switchboard guy to hang up on him. That switchboard guy ruined...
...away all my powers, I was startled by the intro. It was a quote from Al Pacino in The Recruit - which not only scared me but also impressed me with the willingness of Gallagher's research department to sit through the film. Pacino yells, "We believe in good and evil. And we choose good. We believe in right and wrong. And we choose right. Our cause is just. Our enemies everywhere. They're all around us." That's when I knew that I wasn't one of them, that I believe everything is a continuum, that the real world...
...pursuit of a decent system of higher education may be no vice. There is a point at which too much democracy, like too much pastis before dinner, can lead to a kind of facile and simplistic drunkenness. For, though money may well be at the root of all evil, it can also pave the road to a greater justice, a more benevolent, though still imperfect, world. Indeed, the one major difference I have thus far seen between the supposedly "élite" university where I also teach - the Institut d'études Politiques de Paris, for which most must pass...