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...service personnel and tens if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, trillions of dollars of debt, total disruption of the Middle East and destruction of our nation's good name - sit safely in their offices, unthreatened with even impeachment and ready to escape into retirement without a scratch when their term ends. Payment for sex is apparently far worse than the losses of blood, treasure and our nation's reputation. American values? They're in the toilet. William Majors, WOODLAND HILLS, CALIF...
...deforestation. Look at those numbers for a moment, and you'll realize there's very little that any of us can do on an individual level to stop climate change. Live like a monk, take away your 20 tons - stop breathing if you'd like - and you'll barely scratch the surface...
Before he was dubbed the "Stradivarius of car-building," Boyd Coddington, the guru familiar to fans from his cable reality show American Hot Rod, fixed cars at Disneyland. Then wealthy clients began to notice his hobby. Coddington designed everything from scratch on his stylish, award-winning reinterpretations of early Chevys, Fords and Caddies. Among his masterpieces: the CheZoom and the sleek CadZZilla, built for musician Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. The cause of Coddington's death was not disclosed...
Organizing one from scratch would almost certainly be a disaster in a state whose name is already synonymous with electoral fiasco. What's more, it has more than 30,000 overseas military personnel in its voter files. And there are voting rights issues as well, including the need for bilingual ballots...
...output. And if they were the forerunners of artistic cool, they didn't have the iron-hard celebrity gloss that we now associate with successful art. The fun of this exhibition is the evidence of a whole culture or philosophy gradually building up, more or less by chance, from scratch. What you come away with is a great insight into unconventional ways of making art. Duchamp, Ray and Picabia were not faux rebels or officially sanctioned pets like the art stars of the present moment. Being original for them was not an affectation, but a necessity...