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...have the right to be self-righteous when it comes to camera phones (or anything, for that matter—this is my rant, suckers). My cell phone was manufactured circa 1887. It weighs 18 pounds and runs on Diesel fuel, not unlike a late-model Peugeot. It is utilitarian to the extreme and does its job quite well, thank...
...succeeding books like Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72) has been endlessly imitated but never equaled. That's because nobody else had Thompson's gift for describing altered states of mind with absolute lucidity. More important, no one else had his curiosity about this country and his righteous, inexhaustible rage at its numerous shortcomings, a rage that never cooled or hardened into cynicism. If he overindulged--and he did--it was in pursuit of a truth he felt he could find in no other way. "There is no honest way to explain it," he wrote, "because the only...
...succeeding books like Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72) has been endlessly imitated but never equaled. That's because nobody else had Thompson's gift for describing altered states of mind with absolute lucidity. More important, no one else had his curiosity about this country and his righteous, inexhaustible rage at its numerous shortcomings, a rage that never cooled or hardened into cynicism. If he overindulged?and he did?it was in pursuit of a truth he felt he could find in no other way. "There is no honest way to explain it," he wrote, "because the only...
...play internal political games and make good connections for the future of their political careers. The result is that those who are highly involved…tend to be rich, white and mainstream.” Sounds good, right? Provocative and progressive with a dash of the self-righteous...
...spanked for challenging the scholarship of Cornel R. West ’74 and should have learned that one doesn’t tilt against left-leaning windmills. But, Summers is either a slow learner or a conservative plant. Either way, he is exposing the left for its self-righteous attempt to homogenize scientific and political thought...