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California Democrat Barbara Boxer has submitted a bill that addresses only the most basic needs of passengers. Adequate food, drinking water and restrooms must be available to people stuck waiting on planes, and they must have the option to disembark after sitting on the tarmac for three hours...
When not wearing a tie and working at his day job in the financial sector, Roberto Ruiz spends his time the way a growing number of Nicaraguan men do: training roosters for razorblade battles to the death. It's like training a boxer, he says. A good program includes running the bird to build stamina (hooded sweatshirt optional), putting the bird in the sun to sweat out grease and develop plumage, and throwing the bird up in the air to build wing strength...
...word faggot in the course of denying that you had used it before? Even if the denial is dishonest, it seems more like an apology than a repeat of the original crime. And is it really a gaffe if the alleged victim feels no pain? Rice complained about Boxer's passing remark only after the likes of Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh had made an issue of it. And neither she nor any of the Fox News feminists took offense, or even noted, when Laura Bush said in December in PEOPLE that Rice wouldn't run for President "probably...
...been a magnificent season for gaffes. Consider just the past couple of weeks: Barbara Boxer ostensibly dissed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for not having an "immediate family." A hapless Pentagon official named Charles Stimson called on American corporations to fire any law firm that represented terrorist suspects. An actor on Grey's Anatomy used the word faggot at the Golden Globe awards in the course of denying that he had used this word about another member of the cast in October. French President Jacques Chirac said it wouldn't be so bad if Iran got a nuclear bomb...
...only if you think the speaker has accidentally revealed something true about himself or herself. It ought to reinforce some pre-existing suspicion: Bush's Pentagon doesn't care about civil liberties, or Chirac is losing his marbles. One TV commentator, trying to explain his ginned-up outrage over Boxer, accused her of thinking that a black woman can't be Secretary of State without children--a form of prejudice so convoluted that I doubt anyone actually suffers from...