Word: feds
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...Forming and maintaining intractable opinions of other people—good or bad—doesn’t make life interesting; it makes it boring. I can’t help but think of all those modernist painters—cubists and the like—who got fed up with seeing the same things over and over again. Their crazy canvases force us see the objects of everyday existence as if they were completely alien and unknown. The idea is that our second impressions are even more interesting and exciting than the first ones...
Senator, though not, in fact, a real person, is a typical member of Billionaires for Bush (B4B), an “exclusive” club that, as its website claims, helps to “counterbalance the overwrought concerns that are spoon-fed to voters about tax fairness, clean elections, global justice and environmental problems.” A strong supporter of George W., Senator, much like the other members of the club, will tell you that she joined to help those politicians who will keep her comfortable lifestyle unchanged for years to come. B4B chapters are springing...
...Klein wrote that the President "has spent the past three years packed in political bubble wrap, sequestered from the realities of the public square." Wasn't Bush's father criticized during the 1992 campaign for being out of touch with mainstream America? Our current President's habit of being fed information mainly through his handlers keeps him not only out of touch with the mainstream but also willingly in the dark about issues and opinions other than those his close advisers believe he wants to (or should) hear. There is no excuse for Bush to close his mind to contrary...
...Klein wrote that the President "has spent the past three years packed in political bubble wrap, sequestered from the realities of the public sphere." Wasn't Bush's father criticized during the 1992 campaign for being out of touch with mainstream America? Our current President's habit of being fed information mainly through his handlers keeps him not only out of touch with the mainstream but also willingly in the dark about issues and opinions other than those his close advisers believe he wants to (or should) hear. There is no excuse for Bush to close his mind to contrary...
Suddenly, I was playing field hockey on sprinkler-fed fields tended by legions of gardeners. I went to sleepovers in mansions, and attended sweet-sixteen parties that would have given Caligula a run for his money. Instead of getting chased around the schoolyard by pit bulls, I spent my afternoons at meetings for the various clubs I’d joined, or reading quietly beside one of the stained-glass windows. I graduated in a white gown, holding a basket of red roses...