Goats used to be run with domestic stock, cattle and sheep, because they were believed to prevent contagious abortion, an affliction more prevalent in the past than it is now.
In no one is this passion, this affliction more apparent than in HuffPost Executive Business Editor Peter Goodman.
Nowhere is the salvific power of affliction more evident than in Martin's narrative redemption of Jamie Lannister.
In its last years, as its afflictions spread more completely through its body, the Party became more crotchety and angry.
Some people clearly respond better to placebos than others, though we don't know why; some illnesses and afflictions are more amenable to suggestion than others; and many of the most intriguing findings are tenuous.
While some afflictions are more recent phenomena than others, how we cope with this suffering, and how we go about reducing the pain we inflict on ourselves and others, are dilemmas as old as humankind itself.
So say the signs on some Angeles National Forest trails, like a warning on one of those commercials for a product that holds loose dentures in place but comes with the risk of a sudden loss of vision, fatal bleeding and other afflictions lasting more than four hours.
Far from being an isolated case, this kind of gridlock has been Albany's chronic affliction for more than a decade, through Democratic and Republican governors.
