Word: guts
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That's how teledemocracy is supposed to work, according to Perot, the billionaire computer executive and putative presidential candidate. The concept has a certain gut-level appeal. To voters fed up with the paralysis of Congress and the special-interest outrages that characterize politics-as- usual, the idea that the citizenry might bypass all the musty machinery of representative democracy and directly influence the government seems enormously attractive...
...gut, I have a real sense of insecurity about group manifestations in general." Feldman says. In other words, he does not like to rely on others to argue his position...
...point is, the whole nature of representative democracy is that a conscientious member of Congress -- and there are some -- can say, "Yeah, the people back home, according to the polls, are against me on this issue, but I believe in my gut that it's the right issue, and I'm going to do it anyway...
Enough to avenge last year's gut-wrenching overtime loss to the Minutemen...
Cows are contributing to global warming. To a measurable extent, they are. The symbiotic bacteria that dwell in every cow's gut enable grazers to break down the cellulose in grass. As a by-product, these bacteria produce considerable amounts of methane, which, like carbon dioxide, is a heat-trapping greenhouse gas. The methane periodically gusts forth from grazing herds in the form of rumbling postprandial belches. But if cattle contribute to the global methane load, they are hardly alone. Swamps, termite mounds and rice paddies are all hosts to similar sorts of bacterial methane factories...