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...hard to take Republican leaders too seriously when they criticize recovery plans for the economy; it's sort of like those geese criticizing evacuation plans for US Airways Flight 1549. Their critiques look even goofier when you see their alternatives. They warn that President Barack Obama's stimulus package will explode the debt - and so they want to make President Bush's debt-exploding tax cuts permanent. They say Democratic spending plans are full of pork - then they propose an extra $24 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers, the federal equivalent of Oscar Meyer. Let's just say their...
...Some of the HFPA's goofier inspirations have stuck, like the Miss Golden Globe designation, begun in 1963 in homage to the sweet young thing of the moment. The honoree usually comes from Hollywood royalty (Tippi Hedren's daughter Melanie was Miss G.G. in 1975, and 31 years later the slot went to Griffith's daughter Dakota Johnson). It's one more way of guaranteeing that one more proud parent, who just happens to be a movie star, will show...
...former, Confessions on a Dance Floor is not for you. If you're the latter, close the blinds. Because the words get goofier, and the song gets faster, and pretty soon all you hear are echoes of Madonna's voice behind a glossy thump and a grinding guitar hook. It is possible to remain still while that happens, but only if you are made of wood...
...even including some of the more esoteric VES classes, such as VES 420p: Paraphernalia Construction and VES 99s: Comping the Advocate (usually taken concurrently with VES 91c: Nose Candy). Just kidding. I apologize; that was out of line.There is no doubt that I have purposely selected some of the goofier VES courses, and a VES concentrator could obviously point out some equally silly classes in other departments (Anthro 1130: Archaeology of Harvard Yard being my favorite). The examples speak to the whole, however. And one area in particular in which there is simply no comparison is the area of thesis...
...Korea and "Platoon" more than a decade after the last U.S. helicopter escaped Saigon.) For another, war gives members of the industrial-entertainment complex - a business designed to offer diversion from the little murders of daily life - to take the world seriously. And that's a spectacle only slightly goofier than movie stars taking themselves seriously...