The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
Men!" I said. "You all a bunch of chauvinist morons" Stephanie Plum - Ten Big Ones
Are you telling me your brain and your lady parts decided on a love fest bake-off winner?
Ranger removed my goggles "Would you like to come home with me?" I stepped away from him. "Thank you for the offer, but no. I'm done with men. " Ranger smiled. "Forever?" "Until I figure some things out. " "And if you don't figure them out?" "If I can't figure them out on my own, I'll ask you to help me. " "Babe, that's like the blind leading the blind.
A uniform cordoned off the area with crime scene tape. The M. E. pulled in and parked. There were two EMT trucks idling at the edge of the lot. I’d stayed close to the back door, and one of the Rangeman guys had taken a position two feet from me, standing at parade rest. No doubt in my mind he’d take a bullet for me rather than face Ranger over a dead Stephanie.
I like my nuts," Mooner said. "I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then.
Opening my door to Dillon Ruddick, my bulding super. I handed him a cup of coffee. "Sorry about the blood. " "What was it this time?" No one reported gunfire. " "I hit a guy in the face with a hair dryer. " "Whoa. " Dillon said. "It wasn't my fault," I told him. "Maybe we should lay down some linoleum here. It would make things easier for clean up.
Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense.
What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.
In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality. . . we can no longer hope to save everything, but. . . we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.