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...good can come of all this, it should be something in the way of an American political housecleaning. Toxins need to be flushed out of the system from time to time. Over the years, we have built up too much poison in our politics and government. We should seize the occasion of this fiasco, one way or another, to rinse...
...this sounds like ranting. The distant music of H. L. Mencken dead-ends in Don Imus imitations. It savors of precisely the poison that it condemns. Indeed, the political malaise we suffer from is usually attended by self-disgust. That is one of the dangers of the current situation. But rather than self-loathing, this election - two inadequate candidates fighting to a weird, ignominious tie, with no expectation even that the winner will be the less lousy - should rouse Americans to self-examination...
...million Hondurans, has over 35,000 - and only one police officer who handles gangs. "About all I can do," says Magdalenys Centeno, "is see who shows up at the gang funerals and take their photos." According to Centeno, almost all the leaders of local gangs Control Machete, The Junk, Poison, Crezi Kids, MS and 18 are deportees from the U.S. "They're much more violent than anything we'd seen before," she says...
...Moments later the topic is the Balkans. Gore speaks of how World War I started there and says "my uncle was a victim of poison gas there." The RNC oppo staff giggles at this and Griffin bellows: "This family stuff is killing me... let's check his uncle!" There is a flurry of activity - and then palpable disappointment that Gore's uncle really was a gas victim. "OK, so that is not a lie..." Griffin grimaces, and phones the bad news to a waiting colleague: "Hey... we confirmed the uncle tear-gas story...
...began last month when ultra-vegetarian Alicia Silverstone demanded an end to the "Got Milk?" campaign since it advertises "poison." Don't you love it when out-of-work actresses do their own scientific research? Isn't that just peachy? Silverstone's egomania came shining through in a letter she angrily wrote to the Federal Trade Commission: "I recently stopped consuming dairy products, in part because of all the information I learned about the harmful effects of cow's milk on human health." First of all, who cares if Alicia stops consuming dairy products? Actually, it's probably a good...