Rocker (@97179) • Hey
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Publications
- Sometimes I stare at a door or a wall and I wonder what is this reality, why am I alive, and what is this all about?
- The hawk didn’t understand why the ground squirrels didn’t want to be his friend.
- **It's a YouTube meme thing, explained Wedel.**
- **I still think I deserve a raise.**
- **“I think the best way to defeat nonsense like this is to engage in robust democratic debate and make it clear his views are not welcome.” (As for the specific accusation of hate speech, a spokesman for Osborne pointed out that Trump has “not been convicted of any crime.”) Ahmed-Sheikh, the first Muslim member of parliament from the Scottish National Party, disagrees with Osborne’s stance.**
- **But there’s a great opportunity to make a difference, especially in small towns.” French and McKinlay are the first to say that they didn’t do all this on their own.**
- **medical expenses!—the easy solution might just be putting a flat limit on all deductions and calling it a day.**
- **While Hannah Horvath remained her narcissistic self throughout most of the episode (with no talk of her downstairs neighborhood Laird, with whom she ended last week's episode;**
- **Without them, we'd be forced to subsist entirely on baby food and Jamba Juice.**
- **As a student, she had often flown cross-country from Boston to Los Angeles to visit her father, who works for the airline industry.**
- **My father gave a nice watch to me.**
- **I haven't needed to use the money you lent me.**
- **It concerns David and Barbara Green, the owners of the Hobby Lobby craft store chain.**
- **She had just earned her Ph.D.**
- **It would letundocumented farm workers currently in this country who pass criminalbackground checks earn legal status by continuing to work on farms.**
- **As one liver consultant put it to me: “My patient who’s drinking 100 to 120 units per week can afford to buy three times as much alcohol now as they did in the mid-1980s.” These changes, from the falling price of alcohol to the marketing of stronger, more easily consumed drinks, are thought to be behind the rise of what researchers call “determined drunkenness.” Fortysomethings might get drunk on a night out, but it wouldn’t be their explicit aim.**
- **The victory discredits that argument, and empowers those who want Trumpism without restraint, starting with the president himself.**
- **To Sarandos, it’s a marketing tactic, a way to keep Netflix at the forefront in a rapidly changing industry.**
- **And don't miss this report of a Parisian attempt at urban renewal as the French capital addresses violence in one of its hardscrabble suburbs by tearing down a housing tower.**
- **Could you please tell me where the nearest church is?**
- When I cook spaghetti, I like to boil it a few minutes past al dente so the noodles are super slippery.
- A picture is worth a thousand words.
- **The Raleigh News &**
- **Patton writes: "Not all women want marriage or motherhood, but if you do, you have to start listening to your gut and avoid falling for the P.C.**
- **This is for a good purpose.**
- **But even the president can speculate as to human emotion: "The NRA is an organization that has members who are mothers and fathers, and I would expect that they've been impacted by this as well," Obama said during his press conference Wednesday. And hopefully they'll do some self-reflection." Still the firm beliefs of the NRA's base is not to be denied, and the group's members were not backing down once the group broke its silence on Tuesday.**
- **For those who were hoping to see Trump establish a blind trust to manage his business interest, this is neither a trust, nor blind.**
- **But her speech for winning the relatively minor Best Original Song had a sweeping valedictory tone, like a reworked version of the Oscar acceptance for Evita she never got to give.**
- **The constant flow of raw materials in and finished products out soon made it the most profitable-per-mile in the nation.**
- **If the lesson is interrupted, or if the instructor seems like a novice, the child deduces that there is more to discover.**
- **Then we got in the car and thought, “Let’s go this other way.” We think this map—paper map, back in the day, we didn’t have a cell phone either—shows that this hill goes up over and we’ll go to this other old Cherokee town.**
- **"Yet far from coordinated, timely action, the rising threat from mosquitoes has instead brought a blame game pitching Greeks against foreigners, local mayors against national politicians**.
- **Loosening the grip of your emotions can make you happier, and for many meditators that’s the big draw.**
- **You must give me leave to judge for myself, and pay me the compliment of believing what I say.**
- **Tom Brewer, a professional firefighter in Charlotte, North Carolina, said his department is currently lobbying for cancer-presumptive legislation in the state.**
- **They are simply tools to improve the grip strength of the invisible hand.**
- He stepped gingerly onto the bridge knowing that enchantment awaited on the other side.
- **This puts a tremendous amount of pressure on Saudi Arabia.**
- **Not only because doing so could save hundreds of thousands of lives per year, but also because ceding the roads to robots might become a more convenient and economical alternative to sharing the roads with them.**
- **In response to “1968 and the Making of Modern America,” a year-long project here at The Atlantic, Jeffrey C.**
- **VEB says the meeting concerned the Kushner family’s private real-estate business, while Kushner says he attended in an official, diplomatic capacity.**
- **And finally, it's unclear how the bill's conditions would work in practice.**
- All he wanted was a candy bar. It didn't seem like a difficult request to comprehend, but the clerk remained frozen and didn't seem to want to honor the request. It might have had something to do with the gun pointed at his face.
- **That is, Republicans are cynical and irresponsible, whereasDemocrats are wise but outnumbered.**
- Years later, personal uses of mobile phones have become more like workplace uses: call only if you have to.
- **"Two hundred dollars," said the merchant.**
- but he came anyway since I was very ill.
- **The continuing crisis in Ukraine and Russian policy in Syria are on the agenda.**
- **Will the Lannisters reign for much longer, sans Tywin?**
- **Kinshasa is the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo.**