Word: shenanigans
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Those of us who are feeling nauseous about the recent scapegoating of Newsweek would like to say we can’t believe that the government is getting away with such a dystopian shenanigan, but in fact, we can believe it. Of course it’s easier to blame some maverick reporter for screwing things up than to accept that the ruling structure of our great nation might actually be rotten to the core. Like Anakin did, Americans are seizing on the small errors of the few instead of the overarching wrongs of the powerful...
...CAROLLO Shenanigan season's over. Appeals court returns Miami's onetime mayor to office...
...view is that the entire American tax code was made regressive during the 1980s," Dowds said. "I see this shenanigan as a dodge to avoid the reworking of the tax code that is necessary...
...long ago, the food industry could pull this kind of shenanigan with impunity. But that was before the emergence of the new Food and Drug Administration. Not the old, demoralized, anything-goes agency whose officials accepted bribes for approving untested generic drugs, but an FDA that seems to be rededicated to protecting the public. Last week the FDA ordered Procter & Gamble, the manufacturer of Crisco Corn Oil, along with Best Foods, which markets Mazola Corn Oil, and Great Foods of America, maker of HeartBeat Canola Oil, to cut out the "no cholesterol" business. While Best Foods and Great Foods stalled...
Just before this winter's storms arrived, along with an anticipated 18 ft. of snow, the Yuba-Feather Health Center held its first open house. Furniture in the waiting room was pushed back for dancing. Hill people arrived from lumbering outposts, such as Shenanigan Flats, Timbuctoo, Challenge and Strawberry Valley. Carrying plastic wine glasses, they poked their heads into the X-ray area, the pharmacy and the psychologist's quarters. They wandered through the cook's shack, now transformed into a dentist's office. And they studied twinkling, gyrating machines in the laboratory, formerly a fire...