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It's true that El Niño afflicts the West and Gulf Coasts with nasty winters, and that it decimates the salmon population.
The host is Rosie O'Donnell, a symbol of the blandness that usually afflicts the awards.
The Times of London said his job was to get rid of the "body-bag syndrome" that afflicts most NATO governments, "above all that of the militarily dominant US."
If I were he, I think I'd respond by saying that excessive prosperity is now a problem for just a few--and that the next president should see to it that it afflicts as many of us as possible.
An even more powerful reason flows from the groupthink that afflicts the White House press corps.