Word: natter
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...rights [Dec. 31, 2007-Jan. 7, 2008]. No, TIME would much rather recognize a virtual dictator for his supposed achievements: violently suppressing dissent, crushing the free press and heading a regime that has been accused of murdering opponents and expropriating private property. On the other hand, TIME loves to natter on about how Gitmo prisoners should be granted the constitutional freedoms, privileges and rights of U.S. citizens because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time during a war. You have lost all perspective and are (quite literally) incredible. Paul Burich, Los Gatos, California...
...dump the McVeighs of the world might be attractive to those who think that the world is slowly chugging toward the Age of Aquarius, but it hardly squares with the long and bloody experience of human history. Neither does the notion, so prized by the various -ologists who natter to Newsweek about their experience with sociopaths, that if only we can do away with childhood traumas and nasty intolerant religions, and maybe get more fluoride into the drinking water, then everything is gonna be all right—rockabye...
Nobody talks about it. Nobody wants to. We are all complicit, and so we natter on about "privacy" and how looking at porn is "natural," and then we retreat to our private paradises where everything is normal, where no desire is questioned, no fetish forbidden. We go into the darkness, and the question that we should ask ourselves, as pornography takes up permanent residence in the basement of American life, is whether the darkness goes into...