Word: oughtness
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...over a lunch of Confederate fried steak in Columbia, S.C., that I realized something crucial about North and South. A passport ought to be required to travel from one to the other. Despite decades of economic and cultural homogenization, the regions remain as different as basketball and NASCAR. That thought occurred when my lunch partner, a man named Chris Sullivan, told me this: "To say the War Between the States was about slavery is like saying the Revolutionary War was about tea." And he meant it, sure as the pear trees bloom in sun-washed Columbia, the South is rising...
...Grade-schoolers are spending longer hours at school, still longer ones sweating over homework and filling what time they have left with a buffet line of outside activities that may or may not build character but definitely build resumes. Kids who once had childhoods now have curriculums; kids who ought to move with the lunatic energy of youth now move with the high purpose of the worker...
Dead now, dead for years. I ought not to think about her. I should be thinking of China and the returned air crew of the spy plane. I should be thinking about the Cincinnati riots. There is Tiger Woods to think about, and the start of the baseball season; Pedro vs. Clemens up in Boston the weekend of my mother's death; I watched, half watched...
...Well, I think you've got a broad cross-section of opinion there, and certainly the debates we have over what we ought to do in various areas don't reflect unanimity of opinion. By the way, we have pretty good arguments in there over how we ought to proceed, what kind of recommendations we ought to make on various issues. And also spending time at the table is Christie Todd Whitman, the EPA administrator, who I think is pretty well known for her views and her institutional responsibility and statutory responsibilities to implement our environmental laws. Same for Gail...
...partly because it's a relatively clean-burning fuel. So there are environmental reasons for going with gas. But both gas and coal also do emit carbon dioxide when you burn them. That in turn gets us over to looking at this whole question of whether or not we ought to go back and reconsider nuclear plants and new nuclear technologies as a way of addressing some of our future demand for electric power while at the same time reducing the problem of greenhouse emissions and possibly global warming...