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  • This is not to cast Michael as some messianic figure (although oddly, he did have a messianic complex — look at the cover of his “HIStory” DVD with him as a hundreds of feet high statue to be revered by the ant-like people below, or his predilection in his later years to suddenly copping and holding the crucifixion pose in performance.) — Michael did not “die for our sins”.

    The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson 2009

  • This is not to cast Michael as some messianic figure (although oddly, he did have a messianic complex — look at the cover of his “HIStory” DVD with him as a hundreds of feet high statue to be revered by the ant-like people below, or his predilection in his later years to suddenly copping and holding the crucifixion pose in performance.) — Michael did not “die for our sins”.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • It's more useful than you might suspect, especially if you're actually in the stadium but seated as far away from the court as we usually are, because it amplifies the sound of the ball and helps you focus on the ant-like figures far below hitting it back and forth.

    Negotiating the Open Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • So, some of the ant-like figures turn up to work, use the facilities and leave.

    Ballardian » The Office Park 2010

  • Asked by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to do an "encyclopedic and objective" study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam from World War II to 1967, the team of three dozen analysts pored over a trove of Pentagon, CIA and State Department documents with "ant-like diligence," he wrote.

    40 years after leak, Pentagon Papers released 2011

  • Asked by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to do an "encyclopedic and objective" study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam from World War II to 1967, the team of three dozen analysts pored over a trove of Pentagon, CIA and State Department documents with "ant-like diligence," he wrote.

    40 years after leak, Pentagon Papers released 2011

  • The ant-like communism that Edwards praised as “too good to be true” leads to more suffering and death, not less.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » More Influential Books 2010

  • Fuck their ant-like colonisation of our intellectual culture.

    November « 2008 « Squares of Wheat 2008

  • In parts of México there is a little ant-like critter that lives in the soil and likes to invade the plastic conduit and eat the insulation off the wires causing a short that burns one or both wires in two.

    ELECTRICAL WIRING 2008

  • The ant-like communism that Edwards praised as “too good to be true” leads to more suffering and death, not less.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » More Influential Books 2010

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