Word: jokes
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...Those SUVs are no joke. In the U.S., where 70% of oil is used for transportation, any energy policy is necessarily also an automobile policy. The single key insight of Lovins' report is to focus on the need to reduce the weight of cars (without sacrificing safety) by using advanced materials like carbon fiber and composites instead of heavy steel. When powered by hybrid technologies that combine electricity with the internal-combustion engine, such light vehicles will produce enormous oil savings. Lovins proposes a nifty scheme of "feebates," which would reduce the consumer price of such energy-efficient cars while...
Sometimes I feel that way. What, are we all murderers and gangsters? But you know, every once in a while you hear a joke you just like: Why don't Italians like Jehovah's Witnesses? 'Cause we don't like no witnesses...
...sign up for the army go through a vetting process, says Collins, but it isn't airtight. U.S. officers believe enemy fighters are sneaking recruits into U.S.-run training camps. The Marines have received reports from scouts saying insurgents wearing U.S.-issued desert camouflage have attacked American positions. "We joke that after shooting at the range here, the shooting is better at TCP-1," Collins says, referring to a U.S. checkpoint at the entrance to Fallujah. The notion that the Marines are unwittingly training enemy fighters has become the source of dark barracks humor. Some drill sergeants joke about making...
...Buddhas in storefront windows. It's weird to me that I do that and happen to be funny. I still can't figure that part out. It's feeling the deep impermanence of life and yet seeing the funny, impermanent side of life. Because it's all a joke. You wanna hang up and not talk to me anymore...
London theater is getting to be like an anti-Republican convention. There's Hollywood activist Tim Robbins' Iraq protest-play, Embedded, at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, where Bush and his Cabinet are portrayed as masked, jabbering clowns, and every joke is greeted with gales of supportive laughter. And for a chewier take on the subject, there's David Hare's Stuff Happens at the National Theatre, where lobby vendors sell books by Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky along with olive-drab T shirts bearing the show's title. It's what the politicians might call twin-track theater - plays seeking...