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Escaping unscathed from the Black Death of 1348 and subsequent plagues, it built up a sound economic base and maintained a strong army with plentiful manpower.
Once he does, perhaps the two parties can abandon this imaginary controversy and tackle the scourge that actually plagues Washington--not child sexual abuse, but child sexual abuse abuse.
Yes, arson-for-profit plagues the hazard-insurance business, but we still need insurance.
The Death of Outrage suffers from the same surfeit of self-righteousness that plagues all Bennett's ventures.
While local newspaper coverage has generally been self-pitying, the comfortably faraway New York Times responded with Schadenfreude , likening the Northwest's woes to biblical plagues ("We finally got our natural disaster, as if it were coming to us," conceded a Seattle coffee server) and reporting that "some Northwesterners" confess to a "sheltered, even slightly wimpy quality in their approach to the extremes of nature."