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Last week, the New York City Council again mounted its legislative soapbox, overreaching into the private lives of the Big Apple’s citizens as it has been disturbingly wont to do of late. Yesterday’s target? iPod-wearing pedestrians. Today’s? Free speech...
...wanted a pair of skinny jeans so that they could feel bad about their thighs in public? Well, skinny jeans are out, but skinny pants are in, meaning that you cannot click your heels up with glee and smash your Tae Bo tape with your instep, as you were wont to do if you had only read the first part of this sentence. Cigarette pants are like a trouser version of skinny jeans except they show your cellulite more. Thus you must work out harder with less reward and repeat to yourself the mantra “I love...
...nights ago, Georgia's Sam Nunn rushed from the supersecret Senate Intelligence Committee hearings on the Iran fiasco to a Washington dinner party. His excited table partners waited between sips of wine for him to begin to blab (as 99 out of every 100 members of Congress are wont to do), to divulge savory tidbits with the salad about the notorious swashbuckler Oliver North, to float with the coffee dark hints of world-tilting plots yet unexposed...
...snowmobiles. This philosophy is bankrupt. For relatively insignificant economic gain, it has endangered the future of one of America’s greatest resources—its undeveloped public land. But despite these policies, to categorize the Republican Party as inherently anti-environment, as some on the left are wont to do, ignores its historical tendency. Ironically, Republicans were among the original conservationists. Their pragmatic environmental policies, pioneered in the early 20th century, have served the nation well until recently. It is that original approach of balanced use of public land—rather than a complete protectionist policy...
...manner of the conflict's execution or the failures of competence, as great as they are," Kerry said, to wild cheers. "It's essential to acknowledge that the war itself was a mistake." It was an appropriate act of contrition, but then-as is his awkward wont-Kerry overreacted and called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops by the end of the year. It was a proposition that garnered all of six votes on the Senate floor when Senate Republicans gleefully submitted Kerry's idea to a vote later in the week...