[00:01]fuss

[00:03]Chances are you might choose the path taken by Spike

[00:05]for its college football sitcom Blue Mountain State, which

[00:10]is to make it as offensive as possible and pray someone is

[00:13]foolish enough to raise an attention-grabbing fuss.

[00:17]gallon

[00:18]In a frenzy of bidding that many in the auction industry

[00:22]called unprecedented, a gallon of gas fetched a record

[00:26]price today at the legendary auction house Sotheby's.

[00:31]nylon

[00:33]This challenge to the wartime nylon shortage, with drives

[00:36]for old nylon, should mean that many of the 200 million

[00:40]pairs of nylon hose made during the past three years will be

[00:44]converted into parachute cloth, tapes and harness, glider tow

[00:49]ropes, other military goods.

[00:53]gallop

[00:54]You see, it's like asking why the sun can't chill for a

[00:58]while, why the moon doesn't heat the earth, why snakes

[01:01]don't fly or why fish don't gallop across the plains.

[01:06]jail

[01:08]Agca served a 19-year sentence in an Italian prison for

[01:13]shooting the pope, and earlier this month was released

[01:16]from a Turkish jail where he served a 10-year sentence for

[01:19]killing a Turkish journalist in 1979.

[01:24]trial

[01:25]Science has long had an uneasy relationship with other

[01:29]aspects of culture. Think of Gallileo's 17th-century trial

[01:34]for his rebelling belief before the Catholic Church or poet

[01:38]William Blake's harsh remarks against the mechanistic

[01:40]worldview of Isaac Newton.

[01:44]explode

[01:46]Now, since the foregoing sentence will make

[01:49]conservatives' heads explode, here is a final point likely to

[01:53]drive liberals to distraction: from Guantánamo to … antiterror

[02:00]tactics, Barack Obama is a lot more like George W. Bush

[02:04]than almost anybody involved…