Word: guilts
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Moreover, guilt-free inhalation doesn’t come cheap. At $300 for a corded model and $400 for the battery-rechargeable unit, the Vapir seems a rich man’s toy even when one accounts for the free single-strapped Vapir tote bag and the font of wisdom that is the Vapir users’ manual, which alone is likely worth upwards of $100. Here’s but one golden nugget from the manual: “Many enjoy vaporizing with dimmed lights and a favorite CD...we suggest the Vapir World Beat...
...idea, too.) And in lieu of those Monday holidays the Uniform Holidays Bill created, we might adopt the British custom of bank holidays—those Mondays free from work and school for purely commercial reasons. The benefits would be enormous: our long weekends would be free from nagging guilt, and our observation of Veterans’ Day (and Presidents’ Day and Columbus Day) untainted by our delight in a day off from work. I relished sleeping in yesterday, but I would have relished it more if I hadn’t known that in my hometown there...
...presentation of the award during Game Four of this year’s World Series was made even more embarrassing by the fans’ embrace of Pete Rose. Rose still refuses to admit he gambled on baseball despite volumes of evidence pointing his guilt. If you’ve ever seen him interviewed, he routinely acts like James Traficant in his bizarre denials and frequent assaults on reality. Beam me up, Pete...
...They needn't have fretted. At initial screenings, the 40-minute Ek Pal has earned a warm response. The typically melodramatic Bollywood plot has Sanjay, a respectable, married businessman, contracting HIV from a casual sexual encounter. Filled with guilt, he deserts his family, avoids telling his mistress, Komal (who is carrying his child), and is ostracized by the community. When Komal later learns what has happened, she kills herself out of shame and fear that she and her unborn baby may also be infected. But this being Bollywood, despite the tragedies set in motion by Sanjay's "one moment...
...very smart person once pointed out that if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat. Probably a very rich, well-connected rat, which is much more than my current path of sitting with a pencil will bring. But being the python that plucks the guilt strings of the rat is always fun. As is being the python that eats the rat in a surprise, late-life attack...