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...legitimate argument to be made that all of these problems could be easily dissolved by legal sanction for the drug trade. But until that point comes, we light up with the legal system we have, not the legal system we wish we had, and we cannot merely pretend that our actions have no consequences...
...After every disaster, a small number of people pretend to be victims. Usually, they do it for money; but not always. After 9/11, the Manhattan District Attorney's office charged 539 people with offenses related to the Trade Center collapse. The charges ran the gamut from trespassing to shoplifting to breaking and entering. But a majority of the arrests were for fraud. "People who tried to get benefits they were not entitled to," explains spokesperson Barbara Thompson. "Employees who said they'd lost their jobs; they hadn't. People who said they'd lost spouses; they didn...
...proved to have hostile intent, and it is making trouble for the U.S. in Iraq, supplying weapons to our enemies. These are all problems to be addressed soberly and perhaps even, eventually, with multilateral force. But the neoconservative campaign to transform Ahmadinejad into Hitler or Stalin, to pretend that he has the ability to destroy the world, to make a hoo-ha over letting the little man speak, is a cynical attempt to plump for war. Ahmadinejad may be ridiculous, but Podhoretz-who recently spent 45 minutes with Bush arguing for more war-isn't very funny...
...Well Good Mornin’ Da, and I’m in Jail The Tossers—Irish folk with guitars and stuff—are bringing some Chicago style to Allston tonight. Go, belt out all the words to “Siobhan,” and pretend that you too have been spurned by an alcoholic Irish lass. Thursday September 20th at 8 p.m. Harper’s Ferry, Allston, Mass. 2)If You’re Interested, You Probably Already Know About It But we’ll say it anyway. Rilo Kiley, Jonathan Rice, and Grand...
...improbabilities. It will be amusing if Romney is done in by a fear of his religious values because, as near as we can tell, he has no values of any sort that he wouldn't happily abandon if they became a burden. But in politics, you are who you pretend...