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...standing joke about Davis is that his personality reflects his name, but Gray is darker than that. He is, in fact, an exemplar of all that is awful about latter-day California politics. He is not incompetent, but he has governed without much creativity through a succession of crises-the rolling electricity blackouts of 2001 and the subsequent high-tech economic implosion. His greatest political skill seems to be an uncanny ability to raise money. He has used this cash to buy television ads, most of them quite vicious...
...meditative-contemplative traditions have maintained for thousands of years that we all suffer from some kind of ADD and just don't recognize it." It's the kind of basic human attention deficit that makes it hard to keep reading a paragraph if it doesn't end with a joke...
...show turns out to be less momentous for U.S. audiences, it may be because its one very cleverly worked-out joke grows old pretty fast. After you get past the shock of hearing arias filled with X-rated insults and recitatif with lines like "A weird thing happened/When I went to take a leak ...," the show doesn't have much of anywhere to go. To be sure, Jerry goes to hell in Act II, where he is host of a show featuring Satan and Jesus--but our hearts are still with those angst-filled transsexuals and diaper fetishists back...
...part, MCI has been fighting back with a campaign that included running newspaper ads about its internal reforms-in papers sure to be read by decision makers. ?MCI: We've Only Just Begun,? read the tagline. It must have been some kind of cosmic joke that one of the ads ran opposite a news story in the Washington Post about the fresh allegations that MCI illegally rerouted its calls. Other probes by congressional committees and the FCC are in the works. Meanwhile a hearing on the firm?s bankruptcy reorganization plan has been postponed until early September...
While being from the Midwest is a characteristic preyed on for many a joke by my Harvard compatriots (usually revolving around my “odd” vocabulary), more often than not the Midwest itself is simply ignored altogether by my college friends. No matter how many times I—like every good Michigander—use the palm of my hand as a rough map, I have a friend who still lumps the various states together as “Wiscons-esota...