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Twice since Martin O'Malley was elected mayor six years ago, Baltimore has been hit by blizzards. Each time, he had city workers phone as many as 25,000 elderly residents to ensure they were O.K. Then he had cops punch through the drifts, carrying bread, milk and toilet paper to those seniors running low. That's a snow job voters appreciate, and it helped re-elect O'Malley with 87% of the vote last year...
Coulter and Fenn were both laughing. But her rape-the-planet bit would later be wrenched from context and repeatedly quoted as Coulter nuttiness. "What p_____ me off," Coulter says, "is when they don't get the punch line...
...possible to get the punch line and not laugh. Last year Coulter wrote a column in which she joked, "Like many of you, I carefully reviewed the lawsuits [alleging bias] against the airlines in order to determine which airlines had engaged in the most egregious discrimination, so I could fly only those airlines ... Imagine the great slogans the airlines could...
...this spring, Michael averred: going the other way. And why might that be, Mikey? I asked silently as I waited for amplification. Might it be that Jason, now (by necessity) off the juice, weighs 140 pounds and the Yanks realize they must turn their erstwhile basher into a Punch-and-Judy hitter-or risk getting nothing at all out of him for all their wasted millions? Michael didn't mention the S word and, to my surprise, neither did Kitty...
...McMurphy of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Yossarian of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 were at war with the world, and both nuked the societies that sought to contain them. One took on the scientists, the other the military: a one-two punch for the common man. Perhaps these explosions were not diversions after all but more sophisticated signs of frustration with a world where one's possibilities seemed to be denied and threatened with extermination...