Hello:

Quail can be plural. It should not be possible to turn and shoot behind you in any safe hunting practice that I'm aware of.

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FPJohnston

Hello:

I think that the "South" privileges the private and personal over the public. Hence power, honour and status thrump the merely civic.

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Frank

Hello:

That should be Civitas.

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Frank

It is worth observing that at least one mea culpa, by Timothy Noah, notes that those who were right about the war should be acknowledged.

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FPJ

Elizabeth Carter, a sometime contributer to Samuel Johnson's proto - blog The Rambler, made the observation that concentration on the trivial and sensational served to distract from events that were serious and consequential. A war might be fomented over the supposed loss of an ear.

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Frank Johnston

Mr. Greenwald points to the existence of a nepotistic privileged coterie. To characterize them as "aristocratic" is to imply a degree of responsibility, a sense of noblesse oblige,not in evidence.Oligarchic is more apropos since no merit need be imputed.

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FPJohn

Hello:

I'm sure I'm not alone in noting that the A320 was not only professionally piloted but also well designed by professional and proficient engineers.

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Frank

The reversal of a US egalitarian economic and social order and the attack on good governance has been a long term project of the right. Proposition 13 in California was the first success, followed by airline deregulation,the suppression of unions (PATCO)and banking deregulation, in a Jacobean program. The Bourbons were enlightened by comparison.

The upward shift in income distribution followed quickly midway through the Reagan administration.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/the-financial-factor/

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FPJ

Lemke Software's Graphic Converter is the great bargain in Macintosh image editing and management.

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Frank Johnston

Day of the Triffids might qualify as a plague movie.

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FPJ