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...also more audacious and outrageous than Franken—and that’s why I am smitten. Coulter chastises letter-writers to the New York Times for being “in full-dress sanctimony,” lambastes Deaniacs as “self-righteous 20 year olds in orange wool caps,” and parodies Democrats’ equivocation on Iraq as follows: “Of course, we all agree that Saddam must go. But first—there are many worthless objections to be raised...
...want to teach your kids that the Yankees are evil, that the true way lies in the struggles of the sickly Brewers and Devil Rays? Go ahead and tell them bedtime stories for losers. But don't go on pretending that there is something righteous in it. Sure, your child might grow up to be Eliot Spitzer, but wouldn't you rather he became Bill Gates? Or better, Alex Rodriguez. That guy is going to be a lot happier in New York...
...like Dean, was a successful, righteous man caught up in a divine joke. In Job’s case, God had abruptly taken his fortune, his family and his health. While Job’s friends insisted that he must have done something to anger the deity, the truth is that there was nothing. God was acting arbitrarily, for a few celestial pennies in a trivial bet with Satan...
...Righteous Babe...
...breakup of his first marriage, and in his various health problems, and in the superfine details of his wheelings and dealings and squealings with studio executives. Even worse, there's a fundamental lack of self-insight here. Eszterhas wants to spin himself as a Hollywood outsider, a self-righteous desperado who took the town for all it was worth and then rode off into the sunset (he moved back to Ohio in 2001), but at the same time he is unbearably eager to drop names and show us what a hotshot insider he is, or at least was. So treat...