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"Election Night Excuses": William Saletan analyzes 20 classic postelection spins.
Stop tracing everything backward, looking always to the past for sources, explanations, and excuses."
[Mary Imber went on to chide the Editor for a number of typographical errors-- literals in English English--(e.g., Ford Maddox Ford for ... Madox ...) for which only apologies, no excuses, are offered.
Another reason the critics are letting Bloomfield get away with it: As the Truman Show also made clear this week, sadism makes for great television, and great television excuses everything.
Her novels argue that criminals must pay for their actions--no forgiveness, no rehabilitation, no excuses whatsoever--but she's also admitted to bouts with childhood molestation, bulimia, and bipolar mood swings, and she has asked that people who suffer such traumas be given a little TLC.