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Instead of treating smokers as children who can’t be trusted to make basic cost-benefit decisions, society should take their choices seriously. Despite the availability of safer alternatives (patches and gum) smokers keep smoking—could it be that, gasp, they actually enjoy it? Perhaps smokers are capable of evaluating the costs of smoking—in fact, they tend to over-estimate the dangers—and simply find smoking worth the risk...
...many will climb even higher. So what’s the problem? With all this upward mobility—as a matter of statistical certainty—many of today’s residents of the Kremlin on the Charles will wake up not too long from now as (gasp) Republicans...
...members to keep your leadership, no matter how wise it is, in check?” Another UC member shouted that Kwong was out of order. Haddock shouted at that UC member that he was out of order. The UC, collectively, was out of order. Haddock had one last gasp. “So the reason why I’m allowed to rule things out of order and dilatory is because we could have the tyranny of the minority…every single motion I make, you would simply rule out of order…And so I make...
...Gasp. Tell Americans to drive less? Though a fractional reduction in driving across the country would dramatically reduce demand and prices, few things are more frightening to public officials, especially six months before an election, than telling Americans to conserve. Instantly, the image of Jimmy Carter in a cardigan on national television morosely telling Americans to turn down their thermostats appears before the lawmakers? eyes. The country's current malaise and confrontation with Iran are already reminding Americans of those the dark days before Reagan?s Morning in America...
...this the last gasp of a dying generation of anti-rock philistines? Hardly. As recently as this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, NFL planners arranged with the Stones beforehand to mute their microphones on “inappropriate” parts of their hits “Rough Justice” and “Start Me Up.” After inadvertently glimpsing part of a grown woman’s nipple two years ago, this country wasn’t taking any chances...