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Steven E. Landsburg's comments on the national debt ("Kwitcherbellyachin'") were neither enlightening nor humorous, leading me to wonder why you bothered running the piece.
If only he'd known George and Cap were as bothered as he was, Bush said, he would have tried to stop the policy.
Bill Gates may not be waking up in the middle of the night worried about whether Netscape has stormed the Ardennes on the way to Sedan, but I'm sure somebody at Microsoft is worried (probably Steve Ballmer, a college buddy of mine who would wake up in the middle of the night if he bothered to sleep), and is working on a devastating counterattack this very moment.
Some writers hint that the only reason Ta Mok bothered with the trial and the life sentence is to burnish the Khmer Rouge's bloody image.
This observation used to dismay the late Nobel laureate George Stigler: He maintained that the grand institution of matrimony is demeaned by those who can't be bothered to negotiate its details.