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...Success! Access feed from "Pseudo SkyBox." Am able to pan, 360 degrees, around an equipment-filled room that is apparently entirely submerged in water...
...idiocy of moderation management is that it cheers on the denier. It empowers him in folly. It spiffs up his rationalization. It is a pseudo-solution. Managed moderation is the pettifogger's debate coach...
Geography hardly matters anymore. Religion does, a bit. The selection of running mates, a pseudo-scientific calculation, does engage an instinct for political chemistry and physics - chemistry, because that is what is supposed to result, vividly, when you combine the two candidates; and physics, such that the gravitas of Number 2 may not exceed the gravitas of Number 1 (exception: see "Colin Powell," above...
...doggedly competitive spirit of pseudo-childish Play and Fun seems to have taken over the thinking of the sneaker industry. Something of the same archly juvenile outlandishness has been at work designing women's shoes, which have the look of illustrations in a children's story - blockish and clunkish and exaggerated. All fashion is an aesthetic of distortion. But platform shoes have risen so high you could use them to drill for oil in the Gulf. They look spectacular, even crazy, and elevate foot fashion to the status of a major social hazard. A young woman...
...every other book Hume wrote; don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...