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...dogs are remarkably well-behaved and easy to train and exhibit no desire to examine each other's privates. Or, for that matter, fight. Are they dogs, or are they large gerbils? Complaining about the plausibility of a children's movie is generally a pointless venture - the best kids' films include major flights of fancy - but parents should go into Hotel for Dogs prepared to defend their right to not bring home each and every dog at the shelter. Real dogs are nothing like these dogs...
...numerous commercials. His was the voice in the first ever recording of the entire Bible, made in the 1940s. At that time, it was as natural to assume that God spoke with a British accent as it was to assume that he had a beard - or, for that matter, that...
...that it can't be faked. There is no element of affirmative action here. Sidney Poitier won't do. The point is not to be black but to sound black. And unlike the integration and near domination of African Americans in professional sports, this is not even a matter of genuine talent breaking down the floodgates. Plenty of white or white-sounding actors could say "THIS [pause] is CNN" as well as Jones. Most people who have heard that phrase a hundred times don't know whose voice it is and - unless the question is raised specifically - they aren...
...first minute of one of Obama’s primary victory speeches when he found out I was American (he may have also wanted us to eat dinner at his stall).But here and now, neither the news nor the “prevailing opinion” are any matter. We promise to visit Carlos in Mexico sometime in the hazy future. My bus pulls up, and the farewell confusion sets in. Spaniards kiss twice. I still attempt a hug. We fumble through our affectionate gestures of choice, and I wave a gloved hand as my bus rattles away from...
...point is, specifics really matter. And when specifics get left to Congress and the states, they tend to get screwed up. Politicians love to cut ribbons for new roads; repairs don't have the same bringing-home-the-bacon oomph. Most state transportation departments have become virtual asphalt factories, and most states have laws preventing the use of federal transportation dollars for anything but roads. Yet Congress keeps writing the states blank checks, lavishing the most cash on the ones that do the most driving and paving, actually mandating that federal officials "shall in no way infringe on the sovereign...