Word: spills
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Coming soon to impeccably punctuated playgrounds everywhere. Just finding a kiddie version of Lynne Truss’ New York Times bestseller (yes, they put it on the cover twice) “Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation” was enough to make me spill coffee all over myself with glee. And they’ve even made it child-friendly by replacing the adult version’s homicidal, gun-toting bear with a cuddly, cupid-like archer of a panda. Combining small children’s great love of grammar with their fondness...
Bootie is the one to articulate this newfound ethos: “It was an awesome, a fearful thought: you could make something inside your head, as huge and devastating as this, and spill it out into reality, make it really happen. You could—for evil, but if for evil, then why not for good, too?—change the world...
...predicted with confidence, but this much can: for the foreseeable future, it will be a messy country with a weak central government, a divided society and regular violence. At worst, as the Iraq Study Group report warns, Iraq will become a failed state racked by civil war that could spill over and engulf several of its neighbors...
...outsiders can convince them to do otherwise. It can expire only when the Russians themselves grow sufficiently resolved to abolish it - if ever. The West may, however, have an urgent interest in ensuring that Russia's deadly political games are at least played on home turf, and don't spill over Russia's borders - lest the killers, believing they can get away with anything, anywhere, establish precedents of nuclear or any other terrorism on foreign soil...
Ideal Date: We’d road trip to a Built to Spill concert and then talk about music over cheeseburgers and root beer afterwards...