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Have you tried snowboarding? -Austin Meyer, Prairie Village, Kans. I have, and I was bad at it. I don't like the feeling of having my feet stuck together. My husband and I were watching [snowboarder] Shaun White, and we were saying that he's like Yoda in Star Wars, who's always hobbling around and then in the fight scene goes crazy. That's what Shaun does. He's really agile. It's not easy, what he does. I couldn't do it. (Read "Shaun White vs. Lindsey Vonn: Who's Better...
...belt. "We do classic burgers at Bill's," said Brett Reichler, chef of the upstart Bill's Bar and Burger, a first-time entrant who followed Mendelsohn's lead in having hot models stand around getting out the vote. "What can I say?" said Randy Garutti, czar of Danny Meyer's phenomenally successful Shake Shack. "The Shack burger is a classic...
...Meyer, despite her left-wing credentials, seems to have fallen prey to this nonsensical right-wing hysteria, writing that “[t]here are three branches of government, not one. Presently, the executive branch is being ruled by a demigod who wants control...
...leading to protracted and unproductive negotiations on Capital Hill. While Mr. Obama promised change in Washington, he cannot alter the nature of parliamentary democracy, which relies on such wheeling-and-dealing as the legislative pay-off to Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) during the health-care negotiations that Ms. Meyer rightly derides. But surely the complete unwillingness of congressional Republicans to cooperate with Mr. Obama is just as despicable. Given the constant Republican threats of filibuster, an increasingly out-of-reach supermajority of 60 Senate seats is now required to pass any kind of progressive legislation...
...empty-handed. In doing so, the Republicans are assuring a legislative dead-lock at a time when our country desperately needs new ideas and approaches. It seems that substance-less populism and counter-productive anti-government sentiment are in danger of carrying the day, especially if Democrats like Ms. Meyer are already willing to throw their president to the dogs. Does she really believe that the Palins, Boehners and Cantors of the world will deliver more jobs, better health-care and a speedier withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan than Obama can? Change can only be achieved incrementally, and the president?...