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Witness, for example, MIT economics professor Paul Krugman’s recent rant in The New York Times. Krugman begins with the smug declaration that Bush’s strategy is to treat crises not as “problems to be solved,” but as “opportunities to advance an agenda that [has] nothing to do with the crisis at hand.” He excoriates Republican proposals for economic stimulus as a ploy to “lock in permanent tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, using the Sept. 11 attacks...
Aliens blowing up the White House. Calling game-show contestants "Survivors." Background shots of the New York City skyline. Caring about Gary Condit's and Anne Heche's love lives. Videogame warriors blasting through ruins. Insult comedy. Smug, detached comedy. Political comedy. These are just a few more of the casualties of Sept...
...taken aback in reading the president of the College Democrats’ smug characterization of President George W. Bush as “acting like he’s Captain America” in his efforts to rally and unite the nation in recent weeks. When I read the The Crimson’s accounts that the College Democrats declined an offer to co-sponsor the Republican Club’s Rally for Patriotism, my outright anger as a now-former member of the organization became such that I could no longer remain silent...
...what is the meaning of this wickedness? It says, We are very, very angry at you, Americans, for your smug arrogance in the face of our desperate suffering. That is all. American military and financial might is certainly not even dented. The worldwide network of overwhelming U.S. power continues to pulsate with precision. What have these desperate people achieved apart from wanton murder? It is not only Americans they have killed. So many have perished from all kinds of diverse backgrounds who had come to work in those beautiful buildings which represented some abstract future. They have put the entire...
...those people, those preening “free thinkers” and earnest, self-congratulatory “humanitarians,” one can only ask if there is any limit to their smug, mindless detachment from the life of their country, and from the natural feelings of their fellow...