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...manga book, it stands out mostly through the originality of its subject: an autobiography of the author's three years spent in the Japanese prison system. A manga artist who ran afoul of Japan's strict gun laws, Hanawa began serving time in 1995. Far from being a self-righteous polemic about injustice or the cruelty of incarceration, "Doing Time" instead seems to delight in recounting the details of life behind bars...
...righteous indignation has propelled her to No. 14 on ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY's list of the funniest people in America, and she seems determined to make it into the Top 10 by every medium necessary...
...usually more accurate and substantive than positive ones. Second, people actually do listen, and respond, to carefully crafted negativity—ardent Kerry supporters now believe he’s a flip-flopper even though that charge was invented by the Republicans last March. And third, idealistic (and self-righteous) focus groups led the Kerry campaign to believe that they could make a case for change without ever telling people what was wrong with the status quo. It took until September, after Kerry fell five points behind Bush, for the Democrats to realize their focus-group-approved mistake...
...commentator with ample creativity and righteous fervor, but few tangible political qualifications, is now a subject, and not merely a stimulator, of heated national debate. The occupant of arguably the country’s most powerful appointed position—that being Andrew Card—is comparatively anonymous. For the first time in American history, the views of the men and women behind the camera, more than the actions of the men and occasional woman in front, have seized the public’s political consciousness...
...agree. But everything you say is based on distortion: Fox News, Bill O’Reilly—they don’t have the facts, they have propaganda,” I said. “You know what you are? You’re self-righteous...