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...opener, “Out of the Blue,” rides a driving guitar riff resembling something from a punk rock Johnny Cash as Casablancas delivers one of the album’s best lyrics: “I know I’m going to hell in a leather jacket / at least I’ll be in another world while you’re pissing on my casket.” While Casablancas’ freewheeling tone adds a sense of fun not heard in his voice for several years, it doesn’t distract from...
Another of Clinton's military mentors, retired General Jack Keane, once told me, "I'm a Republican. I disagree with her about practically everything, but she'd make a hell of a Commander in Chief." There is a palpable toughness to the woman, a hard edge that contrasts with the President's instinctive impulse toward conciliation. One of the sharpest exchanges of the presidential campaign came when Obama accused Clinton of echoing the "bluster" of George W. Bush after she said the U.S. would be able to "obliterate" Iran if it used nuclear weapons against Israel. Clinton's edgier tone...
...their actions are geared more toward social rewards or their legacy than the promise of paradise in the afterlife? Yes. We in the West tend to overemphasize belief in such things as heaven, hell, the Messiah, etc. as a motivator for religious actions. The most important element, by far, is social approval, honor, acceptance by the group, the love of a spiritual master and all the joys that go with these...
...deeper into the demimonde - sleeping in police HQ, drawing dangerously close to a hostess who works at the Den of Delicious and taking on the gangs responsible for human-trafficking in Japan - he comes to lose all sense of where his life ends and the 8th Circle of Hell strip club begins. As a mobster's mistress (she is one of 15) notes, Adelstein is almost a twin to her criminal lover: "You're both workaholics, with high libidos, adrenaline junkies and shameless womanizers...
...good as the insurer that backs them--in many cases the federally run Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). The PBGC's future solvency, like Social Security's, is dubious at best. Say what you will about market-based retirement vehicles, but it will be a cold day in hell before I relinquish the security of my nest egg to a government with an uncanny ability to mismanage everything...