I love, I adulate life, the urge for immortality it enshrines, life in the singular, life in you, dying warrior of Nineveh.
But that's what's missing from your drone program: a sense of the human toll at being droned, the rage and urge for revenge it creates.
The War on Drugs pretty much proved that an insane fantasy, and today, if there is a global urge for reform, it has been carried along by evidence, rather than conservative mythology.
In 2013, during a heated House fight over whether to decouple food stamps and the Department of Agriculture, the CEO of the ultra-conservative Heritage Action think tank, Michael A. Needham, urged support for it because it would end the "unholy alliance" and "allow the House to show its conservative values".
But back in Liverpool, the classical repertoire is urged for what it is.
In July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which surveys and certifies the nation's roughly 15,000 nursing homes, finally took a step that reformers had been urging for years: It put online the full text of the reports that nursing home inspectors file for each facility.
Over the years, Cassandras have conjured up hypothetical scenarios that are terrifying to contemplate, and yet, for whatever reason (besides the obvious fact that dwelling on this is a major downer), the possibility and the urge to prepare for it haven't taken hold.
"It's usually when I'm between jobs that I get the urge to go for it.
When tested with an opaque box, 7 9-month-old infants perform better (Diamond 1981, 1990), suggesting that the visibility of the attractive toy evokes the urge to reach for it directly.
The urge for order satisfies itself, it seems, regardless of the quality of the evidence.
