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...certainly will. Apparently, by arranging what some hope to be China’s largest ever stock offering, “the bank plays an important role in underwriting the supporters of Sudan’s genocidal government.” And with that note, the chanticleers of self-righteous indignation sound their call—nearly 900 hundred tiresome words long—to action. “Divest from Sudan!” or, more recently, “from Burma too!” the choruses one after another, in perpetual refrain, raise, striking so high...
Freshman City Councillor Craig A. Kelley is either an earnest, progressive reformer or an unbearable, self-righteous gadfly...
...didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat a salad.” I had developed a life-long aversion to vegetarianism, growing up in a place where most vegetarians and vegans were aged hippies or their equally self-righteous spawn, convinced that in denying themselves protein and pleasure they had earned a karmic bonus to lord over the rest of us. I refused to go over to the dark side. So I turned to books and became a vicarious carnivore. The genre of food writing is similar to any other specialized...
...umbrella, and then two weeks later claim that this was because she was researching a role for a movie? Even her new video, the concept of which is that a blonde Britney watches a brunette Britney strip, so aptly characterizes the schizophrenia of our modern epoch. Whatever the self-righteous press might say, Britney is an independent thinker who loves to apply for employment positions at bars. I am also buying her album. It comes out on my birthday. A hint...
...personal dissents made him a hero to conservatives back when they weren't winning all the time. Now that they are, his operatic style has spread. You never know anymore, as you read an opinion, when the case law is going to give way to aggrieved wailings and self-righteous asides. Even Roberts, whose opinions are characterized by clear prose and occasional sports analogies, has been known to indulge from time to time...