Word: painful
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...There is, of course, no romance in pain. An acknowledgement of the environmental movement’s losers is not about laying claim to a certain brand of sexy radicalism and it is not about venting a moralistic and paternalistic thirst for power. Neither is it about identifying an enemy for a rhetorical and performative assault. It is, instead, about being honest when it comes to what, exactly, people are going to have to sacrifice in order to build an environmentally responsible society...
...midst of a financial crisis that grew out of poor lending practices and excessive leverage right here in the U.S.A. Americans will feel the pain: we're surely already in a recession, and there's a good chance that it will get significantly worse. But guess what - the rest of the world may end up suffering as much or even more than...
Ever since T-Pain started to don that Mad Hatter’s top hat and those digital stunna shades, he has truly been on some other stuff. The second video for his new album, “Chopped N Skrewed,” is “The Jimi Hendrix Experience” gone circus-digital almost like—hmm...well, the first video off the album, except replace Lil’ Wayne with Ludacris. With one touch of a magic button on the shades, we are transported to a techno-psychedelic dream world where, as usual...
...gently upbraiding their younger selves for their narrowness of vision, for their lack of interest in the world around them, in A Mercy, Morrison is urging her younger self, the tortured soul who fashioned the infernal vision that is Beloved, to look even further--beyond the veil of pain and anger, however righteous, to hope. There was a time before the present misery, Morrison seems to be telling herself. And therefore, maybe, there will be a time after...
...plants? Explanation can partly be attributed to the revelation in the report that “a minority of [committee] members considers it probable that plants are sentient.” Plants, for those of you who have forgotten, have no brains and no neurons. If they feel pain or experience some sort of consciousness, it is through a mechanism completely unknown to science. Yet the majority of the committee ruled that sentience is “morally relevant” because we cannot rule out the possibility of sentience. This is an utter bastardization of the skepticism that forms...