Word: selfishnesses
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...numbers of these BBSes were passed around among friends in a sort of Underground Railroad of computer users. His high school computer lab was a close-knit community where more experienced users shared their knowledge with younger users eager to soak up their expertise. Information was not withheld for selfish reasons, but disseminated among everybody in order to spread computer intelligence. His prose makes a family concept continually come to mind throughout the middle of the book, which humanizes a cold technology...
Profiteers are sometimes inclined to invoke expost facto rationalizations for their selfish accumulation of inordinate wealth. They occasionally emphasize their desire to re-imagine selfishly procured wealth, upon their retirement, as wealth selflessly donated to charity. This ends-justify-the-means rationale is both a moral fiasco and a logical pretzelism. It feebly attempts to justify the convenient self-interestedness of a socially irresponsible "career" by miraculously spawning an altruistic intention to "direct funds toward" the world's betterment, after the fact. Why spend life canceling oneself out? Why imbue some corpulent, guilt-ridden check with the vicarious virtue that...
...talk-show hosts and the self-loving blather of the chattering classes, is the confessional mode of speech a vice? "The need to unburden was a selfish need" goes a line in the English author Nicola Barker's new novel, Wide Open, and ultimately the novel addresses the question of the line between the need for revelation and the desire for indulgence. Even as characters are drawn out of their shells, nothing is ever fully 'wide open...
...thing Clarence Thomas ever said that I agree with is that kneeling is not a position of strength, and begging is not an effective tactic. I'd much rather see blacks throwing their weight around; using every parliamentary tactic to protect their interests; being as single-minded, stubborn and selfish as, say, Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay. I just wish the effort was being made in a more worthy cause...
Until this year, Sammy Sosa was widely considered to be a Big Creep. The rap was that he was a selfish player, a braggart who couldn't deliver when it counted. Last year, up for a new contract and trying to impress his owners with gaudy numbers, he hit 36 homers but made a mess of it on the way, leading the league in strikeouts, having a worse on-base percentage than some pitchers and being so reckless on the bases that his normally mellow manager had to scream at him in the dugout on live television. His obsession with...