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It's never good to see local amenities for local people replaced by smug places for braying dickheads to eat expensive sandwiches, but it pays to look into things a little before smashing the default outrage buttons on your keyboard.
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Back in the mists of time, as an account executive with a direct marketing agency, I caused my own local outrage by defaulting the title on a mailing list of 25,000 names to "Mr".
"The key to life with Claudette," Daniel observes, "is knowing that her default setting is overreaction and outrage".
Outrage is the default setting of the sort of news shows that "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" parody, but that is not Wilmore's affect; you might take him for a history professor, or a guidance counselor, or a dentist.
But the shift in focus away from the imminent threat of a first-ever default on the U.S. debt sparked outrage among Republicans and alarm among the world's financial leaders, meeting this weekend in Washington.
However, the official outrage in a country that famously defaulted in 1998 also drew scorn from Russians well aware that most of the country's citizens are far too poor to stash wealth in foreign banks.
Some have been turned on by default, blocking adults from accessing pornographic material and causing outrage, while others have inadvertently blocked access to sex education, charity and information sites.
And yet such restraint is impossible in football, where the default atmosphere is one of unmetered confusion, where the outrage dial is always set at 11, where every straw is the last straw.
Democrats have been pointing to the results of polls suggesting that if the government defaults, Republicans will bear the brunt of the public's outrage.
Hundreds of billions in red ink followed under President George W. Bush without the slightest whiff of outrage from the G.O.P. Yet with President Obama in the White House, Republicans suddenly prefer default to debt.
The outrage.
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