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...staff’s knee-jerk condemnation of Attorney General Ashcroft is completely misguided; he is hardly imposing his “personal” views on the rest of us. Throughout America’s history, it has been implicitly understood that the Second Amendment protects the guns rights of individuals. Last week’s Justice Department announcement merely supported a fundamental freedom that many jurists had accepted until some concerns arose over the precise language of firearm rights in the early twentieth century...
...reels. It's like reviewing a movie on the basis of the trailer - you can often get a good sense of what will absolutely stink and you can guess at what's interesting enough to deserve a look later. Otherwise, any critical opinions here are strictly half-baked, knee-jerk judgments that I reserve to right to reverse entirely once I've actually watched the shows. Having said that, let the half-baked, knee-jerk judgment begin...
Some have claimed that the uproar over the latest line of shirts is an overreaction, one predicated on a kind of knee-jerk political correctness that refuses to allow America’s diversity a place in intelligent humor. But on the contrary, this outrage represents the understanding that blatant and degrading stereotypes are destructive not only to the groups directly targeted but also to an inclusive American society as a whole. Such racist stereotypes, by their very nature, are not funny. The fact that diverse groups have rallied together in large numbers to resist this latest incarnation of cultural...
...many?to tell this story, and he tells it with a deft combination of gravitas and chattiness. Baker himself is heard from frequently, though his remarks aren't always all that satisfying. Is he a complex and tormented visionary, a sage victimized by his own abilities or just another jerk in ceremonial robes? Ultimately, Downing leaves the decision to the reader. There are really no completely clean, morally unambiguous figures in Downing's story?and that includes even Shunryu Suzuki himself, who, wise and lovable as he might have been, certainly suffered from his own distinctive set of follies...
...much as I love my Daddy—no guy will ever be the man he has been to me—he can be such a jerk. He tells me I’m hopeless and have regressed since going to college. He pays me and my sisters to give him clothing of ours that he doesn’t like. I’ve gotten $50 for a pair of plaid golf pants that he desperately wanted to burn. Not a bad deal, but still a jerk move...