Food activists have been focused for a long time on the Boogeyman of GMOs, and their poster boy Monsanto, which have served as easy-to-identify focal points for our fears and angers.
But there is an irony here in that, except for the very general Poverty of the Stimulus schema (which can be traced back to Plato), linguistics and language acquisition have not served as easy-to-use templates or paradigms for developing Nativist hypotheses in other domains.
The many oddball touches, like a looping video of one owner's deceased cat, serve as easy conversation starters, and the swiveling bar stools facilitate discussion.
That influx has combined with Italy's long economic crisis in ways that have frequently confused or obfuscated the causes of the malaise, with immigrants serving as easy scapegoats for the high unemployment numbers.
In that store and throughout the book, baby boom musical staples like Joni Mitchell's "Help Me" serve as easy listening yet sound a red alert siren in the background.
Scams such as those that involve false loan promises, advance-fee fraud, and phony business employment opportunities serve as easy opportunities for dishonest organizations not only to make a "fast buck" but also to obtain credit-card and other personal information that can be used to commit identity-fraud offenses.
CPJ deputy director Robert Mahoney said cyber attacks on individuals and news organizations have increased notably over the past few years and that the practice serves as easy and inexpensive censorship.
That said, consumers have still found value in file storage and syncing services, like Box.net, Dropbox, SugarSync, Syncplicity and others, which serve as easy ways to move both personal and work-related files between an increasing number Internet-connected devices.
Since the water table is high, hand-dug wells have served as an easier way to access ground water.
They serve as proxies, easy targets, for all the fury, disappointment and disgust the presidential race has stirred, at least among some voters.
His self-representation as a grateful American, one who, having arrived as an immigrant, acknowledges the country's singular virtues, serves as an easy contrast with Obama, who is supposedly an anti-colonialist, anti-Western, anti-American, and, for that matter, anti-white — in short, an ingrate.
