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...items. And when consumers do spend, it is increasingly for services--such as trips, parties or a day at the spa--not for old-fashioned goods. "Shopping as bingeing is over now," says Kurt Barnard of Barnard's Retail Trend Report. "Consumers won't buy frivolously or on a whim. They'll buy what they need...
...national popular vote but the Florida vote as well? That Jeb Bush is not a controlling legal authority after all? That all those Cabinet tryouts were a little premature? What we are frightened of, the Republicans countered, is a system in which deadlines come and go at the whim of a partisan court, in which fallible vote counters are asked to read minds, in which statutes and procedures and timetables and traditions for electing a President are subject to "interpretation" and the law loses its meaning. They cited the dark warnings of Florida's own Chief Justice, Charles Wells, that...
...started as a passing whim...
...their hearts are certainly in the right place. Not bad for a passing whim...
...sense, the trend provides an interesting riff on a chord that theorists of democracy have long been playing, one that dates back to none other than Socrates. In the Republic, Socrates describes for his companions what he terms the Democratic Man, a figure who panders shamelessly to public whim and so wins its approval. To my mind, what is distinct about our American democracy is not that we have these Democratic Men--for we have legions of them--rather it is that thing to which our Democratic Men (and Women) so often pander, namely, our hunger for a great leader...