Word: rabid
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...fact Parcells is not the one whose behavior would strike an impartial observer as strange. He is simply changing jobs. He did not solicit the rabid loyalty of millions of New England residents, and indeed often seemed alternately bemused and irritated by the constant media attention that his position received. He did not seek to be either saint or quisling. Those labels were given to him by that most fickle of admirers, the American public...
...these objectivists, there is not a moment's doubt. It reminds me of a few lines from Al Franken's hilarious book Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot: "Limbaugh presented...disinformation that was devoured whole by a studio audience of rabid--but extraordinarily straight-laced--right-wing yahoos. These are the fans who voluntarily--hell, gleefully--call themselves 'dittoheads' in honor of their ability to blindly and uncritically agree with everything that comes out of Limbaugh's mouth...
After wading through the turgid prose of Peninsula's most recent issue, I realized that it attracts particularly rabid ideologues who seem utterly unable to infuse any of their pieces with even a hint of wit, irony or intelligence. It is that failure, not just their offensive rantings, which constitutes the real obscenity. --Lorraine A. Lezama The writer is a former Crimson editorialist...
...Phillies' Lenny Dykstra jumping into a mosh pit, Yankee first baseman Tino Martinez on the couch of a shrink who happens to be a Don Mattingly fan, and Cal Ripken getting razzed by his mailman, who asks, "I don't suppose you've had to deal with any rabid Dobermans at shortstop, Mr. Streak?" Fox will also do a kids' pregame show, In the Zone, to lure future fans whose bedtimes have kept them from seeing the World Series...
...there is evidence for much more serious charges against Seselj. When fighting broke out in 1992, he became one of the three key Serb paramilitary leaders who provided the shock troops of ethnic cleansing. He recruited and commanded a rabid band of "volunteers" dubbed the Chetniks in honor of Serbia's World War II royalist antifascist squads. Dressed in natty black jackets, the Chetniks left a well-documented trail of blood as they rampaged across Croatia and Bosnia, all the while bragging they were acting under Seselj's command. They exaggerate, he says. "I just happen to have...