Word: sorehead
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...didn't want a 60th birthday party but agreed to it under pressure lest I be thought a sorehead, and so all my jowly friends with thin dead hair sang Happy Birthday in their horrible ruined voices and we sat eating aged beef and heirloom tomatoes with a dry but experienced Chardonnay and old pals woofed about how happy and busy they are in retirement and gave me dumb birthday cards ("Welcome to the Incontinence Hotline ... Can you hold, please?") and a cake blazed up like the Hindenburg and some people I knew back when they were fun told...
Disney and ABC got rid of a nuisance, but Grant may be the real winner. When he returns to New York radio, as he surely will, he can blame the p.c. media for his firing. The rabid sorehead will be a professional martyr...
...months ago, the Republicans scraped together a majority by appealing to the sorehead vote, your brother-in-law and mine, the guys who, after a few beers, wonder why they should have to pay taxes for the schools after their kids have graduated. Anger is a primal force in politics, and if you get the good folks riled over the pointy-heads in power, you can get yourself elected, even if your own head resembles a No. 2 pencil. But then you take office and are expected to legislate anger. How do you do that? This is the Republicans' dilemma...
...workers who can't afford shelter from the freeloaders who live dirty and like it. Then there is the libertarian case: Jesus was a hippie, man. But for the most part community leaders would like to get everyone back indoors, particularly when it's nasty outside. Of course the ( sorehead view is widespread too. As Jackson Hole builder Jacques Sarthou sees it, "You don't go into Beverly Hills and demand cheap housing just because you want to live there. If you cannot afford it, tough luck." But Beverly Hills is spang in the middle of one of America...
...what they stand for -- all are practically pure guesswork on the part of the most diligent outside intelligence analysts. What is reputed about Jong Il -- known as the Dear Leader -- is itself a mass of contradictions: terrorist and warmonger, or would-be economic reformer and peacemaker? A pampered, pouting sorehead indifferent to responsibilities, or a relatively shrewd go-getter who has mastered much statecraft...