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“The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)a century ago, such an eruption would have passed unnoticed. Technological development makes us...”
“The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Icelanda small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earthcan bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent...”
“For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyo...”
“So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the h...”
“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express concerns 'privately with the administration...”
“My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of 'if you are not hurting anyone, and you're not fucking with someone else's shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be able to...”
“These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California to New York, from New Jersey to Texas.WaitTexas? Wasn't Texas supposed to be thriving even as the ...”
“It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.”
“Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yellow jelly.”
“The great cause of the new Republican intake is the reduction of the deficit but to anyone seeking evidence of sincere attempts at deficit-reduction the evidence is baffling. The Republicans showed...”
“[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably Tory, slavishly conformist Beckham. The Reds are no longer the Bo...”
“I thought I was getting away from politics for a while. But I now realise that the vuvuzela is to these World Cup blogs what Julius Malema is to my politics columns: a noisy, but sadly unavoidable ...”
“Monotonous talk of the end of American hegemony, the universal clich of the period, is mostly a way of avoiding mounting a serious opposition to it.”
“If Feingold does it, if he wins this race in this year, it will not be as just another Democratic senator. It will not be as a maverick, nor even as an idealist. It will be as a signal that maybe, ...”
“Here was a temporary solution. Parole would get Mofokeng and Mokoena out of jail as quickly as possible. Other details could be sorted out later. I accompanied Nyambi to Kroonstad jail at the end o...”
“This week, Zuma was quoted as saying, 'When the British came to our country, they said everything we are doing was barbaric, was wrong, inferior in whatever way.' But the serious critique of Zuma i...”
“There wasn't even enough meat to make proper fun of [....] I keep waiting for somebody else to come on TV, maybe a cabinet member, to read the real speech, the one that tells us ... I dunno ... stu...”
“When first asked if he would grant an interview with TIME, Greene responded by asking a question of his own: 'Does the candidate get paid?”
“McChrystal's defenders at the Pentagon were making the case Tuesday that the president and his men(the McChrystal snipers spared Hillary)must put aside their hurt feelings about being painted as we...”
“The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican Church, but he has more than once said publicly tha...”
