ago with Steve Carell and that woman with huge teeth? I don’t’ think she’s an Osmond though.” “The one with Don Adams, Barbara Feldon as 99, and Ed Platt as the Chief.” “The original.” “Yeah.” “Wasn’t Mel Brooks involved with that?” “Him and Buck Henry both.” “How does it feel like that?” “Well for starters, it’s a huge goddamn disappointment. I mean, you expect better from Mel Brooks and Buck Henry than some shitty sitcom with a bad laugh track and some crappy tag lines.”
By Guest Blogger Kimberly Katz subcommittee, the latter as the ranking member on the Armed Services committee. Accordingly, Americans should be astounded that only now do these senators publicly recognize the repressive nature of the Mubarak regime, which has benefitted tremendously from $1.3 billion in annual military aid as a result of its 1979 peace treaty with Israel. The Kerry-McCain resolution should give pause to Americans as the history of U.S. foreign policy has been ugly across the globe, from Cuba to the Philippines, from Honduras to Guatemala, from Iran to Iraq to Tunisia to Egypt and elsewhere, from the end of the 19th century to the present. U.S. foreign policy has actively supported known dictators, providing them with the funding and military aid that they need to brutally repress their populations at home, with commercial and strategic benefits accruing to the United States in return.
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you might think that for a Steelers fan such as myself, lucky number seven would be the icing on the cake, and that having already won two of the last five, it wouldn’t be so bad should they lose this time around. You would be wrong. I’ll concede this much. It certainly wouldn’t be like a Vikings fan witnessing the methodical destruction of their team in four Super Bowls over a seven year period. Nor would it be like a Bills fan watching their team go down four straight times, like Joe Frazier against George Foreman. And it would hardly be like a pre-Nike sellout jersey Broncos fan watching their team not only lose four, but losing by wide margins in the first two and getting hammered so badly in the last two that it not only made the Baby Jesus cry, it even made the Baby Buddha reconsider everything he ever thought about the nature of human suffering. But that’s all I’m conceding. And here’s why.
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had that arrogant, patronizing, smug, almost anthropological feel. “Why look at these quaint little Bostonians,” the sub-text sneered. “What silly and exotic customs they practice out in the provincial backwoods.” Normally, it’s the kind of NYT article that makes me want to wretch. There are few things I find more distasteful than bourgeois cultural imperialism, something the Times’ lighter fare seems to specialize in. But in this case I found myself championing that condescending approach and wanting to pour more on myself, and not because I’m a native New Yorker. No, it’s because I live in Baltimore. And Baltimore, along with cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the article noted, engage in the same practice. It’s something I’ve been witness to and endlessly appalled by for ten winters now.
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when the school hired a detective to follow the girls. However, Williams-Bolar did not meekly pull her children out, as most parents do when exposed. Instead, she stuck to her story. The school district then had her prosecuted on a grand theft felony charge, claiming that since she did not pay the local property taxes that funded the district’s schools, her actions were tantamount to stealing $40,000 worth of services. She was convicted and ended up serving nine days in jail.
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