Word: nuke
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...true cost" of energy, including environmental impact, is taken into account. He's hinting, of course, that a big fat subsidy - in the form of a don't-worry-too-much-about-the-pollution thumbs-up from Dick Cheney's report - is exactly what the coal, oil and nuke industries are about to receive...
...grounds. Sauls' sweeping "burden of proof" rejection may well have been an acknowledgment that David Boies was going to sue no matter what he did. So Sauls kicked the whole mess upstairs, and it'll be up to Florida's highest court - barring a 5,000-vote Seminole County nuke on Wednesday - to save Gore...
...like the butterfly ballots of Palm Beach County, Florida? How about the homeless with their Democratic bribes of Lucky Strikes in Milwaukee, Wisconsin? How about those illegal aliens in California? Two can play the game. Let's have a look, your honor, at California, Washington, New Mexico, Iowa.... We nuke Moscow and Minsk, they nuke Chicago and L.A. Let the months and years roll on. The little pathogens with law degrees can Jarndyce & Jarndyce this thing 'til the last dog dies and the shutters fall off the windows of the empty, long-abandoned White House...
Greatest change? Hmmm: The collapse of the Soviet Empire - and therefore, the end of the Cold War, the defining, nuke-menacing global reality for several generations? The computer? The mapping of the human genome? The revolution in science, communications, technology, medicine, all of which have transformed human life in the years since Moynihan came to work in the New Frontier. Globalization? (Global Americanization?) Triumph of markets, death of ideology, the liberating but culture-killing ascent of money as the planetary measure of worth. The Copernican change in the roles of men and women, because of the pill, the sexual revolution...
That audience, of course, was me. Every Wednesday night, I would rush back to my Cambridge apartment, nuke a bag of popcorn, cuddle up on the couch and prepare for Survivor. Although some may consider a two-hour grace period between when my eyes were first glued to the television and when the opening credits for the show began to run to be a little excessive, I assure you the time was well-spent writing letters to CBS concerning how much Big Brother sucked...