Word: mainstreamers
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...right National Front and another 11.5 million for a gallimaufry of no-hopers, an unprecedented 37 million voters turned out on April 22 to propel Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) and Socialist Ségolène Royal into a May 6 runoff between mainstream right and left. The strong showing of centrist contender François Bayrou (who captured 18.5% of the vote, compared to Sarkozy's 31% and Royal's 26%), now presents the two remaining candidates with the classic task of wooing the moderate vote without alienating their partisans. That...
...staggering. Wikipedia's user-created entries have surpassed the 5 million mark. In 2006 YouTube announced that it had served over 100 million video clips per day. With such vast libraries of lip-synched videos and episodes of LonelyGirl15, the numbers seem to indicate that this phenomenon has gone mainstream...
...difficult to recall now, but there was a period 50 years ago when psychedelics were not only part of the mainstream but of the Establishment. Many academics and wealthy experimental types believed that the way psychedelics work - by expanding sensory awareness even as they disrupt control over the way you normally process information - would lead people to great insights. It didn't always turn out that way: some people had great insights; others ended up with not-so-great addictions...
...Tough words - especially because, here in America, much of the mainstream media was also cheering. McCain, a onetime media favorite when he last ran for President, was effectively forswearing the possibility of regaining their favor...
...Meanwhile, the mainstream media paid little attention to Harry Reid's comments quoted above. Republican criticisms of them were treated as the normal tit-for-tat of partisan politics. Reid's cynicism wasn't thought noteworthy, and his defeatism wasn't thought extraordinary. Apparently, cynicism in the service of the defeat of Republicans is no vice. Undercutting the efforts of American troops you have voted to send to fight in a war is a virtue...