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...Redneck means: ignorant, uneducated, low class, common, inferior. White trash. My correspondent told me that I am "an embarrassment to decent people." "Decent people" are people who say nothing with which my correspondent disagrees...
...call the band "The Goat Hearders." Get it? "Heard" instead of "herd." Kinda like "Beatles" instead of "beetles." Heardlemania. It could work. Alright, so "The Goat Hearders" name would probably end up in the trash, but the kids would like it. I'll come up with something better...
...Three a.m., the night before deadline, the office is abuzz. Computer screens glow as editors, sustained by caffeine, frantically click at their keyboards putting finishing touches on their babies. Red-eyed editors litter the floor amid a wasteland of sleeping bags. The trash overflows with tinfoil and napkins, remnants of late night stops at The Wrap. As the sun rises over Cambridge, some editors panic and some breathe a heavy sigh of relief...
...Democratic debate was reminiscent of a Monty Python sketch in which Israelites squabble about who has a better record of hatred for the Romans. Being in broad agreement on most policy issues, each was trying to make the other look dishonest and inconsistent. And it was Gore, all aggressive trash-talking and sharp-elbowed rebounding, who looked more like a New York Knick. Squabbling over voting records and health plans denied Bradley the space to dunk over Gore, which he badly needed to do if he was going to reel in the vice president's lead. Where Bush had done...
BURNING ISSUE No wonder the practice was banned in urban areas 30 years ago. A federal report shows that backyard burning of trash--still a common practice in the countryside--from just one household dumps the same amount of dioxins, furans and other chlorine-containing pollutants into the air as the burning of trash by a state-of-the-art municipal waste incinerator serving tens of thousands of homes. Just about all types of garbage--paper, plastics, food--emit the toxic pollutants. And toxic they are; even tiny amounts of dioxins and related burning by-products may increase cancer risk...