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...During your last campaign, the media hounded you for entries in your log that detailed your watching and rewinding “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.” Do you like silly movies? We hear you wanted to see Napoleon Dynamite...
Sure, Jobs is perfectly pleasant to be around. And he pays attention to what you're saying, but if he disagrees with it--if, hypothetically, you're maybe airing a pet peeve about the fact that iMacs have all their ports in the back, where they're hard to get at--he'll come storming back and hammer at you until you change your mind or at least shut up. When he generously introduces you to the guy who runs Apple's iTunes development team, Jobs makes it clear that you're welcome to meet...
...sure why I decided to pursue Scientology as a kind of pet project. But I spent a week perusing internet sites with hyperbolic accounts of the religion’s dangers and benefits, even checking L. Ron Hubbard’s “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health” —the book that started the religion some 50 years ago—out of Lamont. I’d spent my school year studying abstract critical theory (I’m an English concentrator), and now I wanted to study abstract religious hucksterism...
...there’s no free lunch. Spending billions on these pet projects will require either raising taxes on everyone or cutting spending on other government programs. Although the Bush administration is right to rule out tax increases to finance the reconstruction—increasing taxes would undercut our economic growth at the worst possible time—without spending cuts, the country will simply go further into debt, which amounts to simply a delayed tax increase. And with discretionary spending soaring at eight percent each year under the Bush administration, there’s little reason to believe that...
...corruption convictions over the past decade. (Neighborhing Mississippi was first.) Friends of the Bush administration are already salivating at the sight of billions in no-bid contracts, and like the reconstruction of Iraq, the money allocated for the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast is liable to windup in useless pet projects or outright malfeasance...