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...wantonly criticize her native state—it takes enough from everyone else without her having to pipe up all too often. But every now and again, her compatriots down in Texas do something so entirely inane and reprehensible that she can either get angry, or poke fun. Usually, it’s a bit of both. So when she heard that a group of disgruntled parents were disbanding Girl Scout troops (and boycotting their cookies) in Crawford, Texas—yes, home to President Bush’s beloved ranch—Dartboard only shook her head, and sighed...
After being electronically “poked” by Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., and Sen. John R. Edwards, D-N.C., former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean will poke them both back—but refuse to confirm either one as a friend...
It’s the priorities, stupid. It’s all well and good to poke fun at Republicans for being prudes and Democrats for being licentious. But the disconnect present in the ruling Right’s (and it seems, American culture’s) fixation on sex as a horrid scourge, while less attention is paid to more important matters, is deadly serious when people start getting killed over this stuff...
...advice that troubled couples should "just do it!"--have sex to jump-start a passionless marriage--Schnarch retorts, "Telling low-desire spouses to just do something just pisses them off. Most couples seeking help are angry, and angry sex isn't very generous. These people would rather poke each other's eyes out than stroke each other's genitals...
...movie, so Schoenfeld and Siodmak don?t waste time trying. From the moment Marlow (Franchot Tone) enters Cliff?s dingy digs and mutters, ?What a place. You can feel the rats in the walls,? he has pearly psychopath written all over him. Especially his hands, which poke out of the shadows into harsh light. ?How interesting a pair of hands can be,? Marlow muses, as Cliff sits petrified. ?They can trick a melody out of a keyboard. They can mold beauty out of a piece of common clay... Yet the same pair of hands can do terrible evil. They...