Dispensation

Dispensation for wearing their pants around their ankles and their hats sideways like fools?

Think Progress » GOP Claims It’s Upholding The Legacy Of MLK, A Fighter Against The ‘Injustice’ In Health Care Inequality 2010

So strange, so inexplicable a phenomenon, attested by eye-witnesses, corroborated by men of recognized standing, and acknowledged by government as well as unofficial historians among the people who had sworn undying hostility to the Bábí Faith, may be truly regarded as the most marvelous manifestation of the unique potentialities with which a Dispensation promised by all the Dispensations of the past had been endowed.

Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab Rothwell Polk 2011

So strange, so inexplicable a phenomenon, attested by eye-witnesses, corroborated by men of recognized standing, and acknowledged by government as well as unofficial historians among the people who had sworn undying hostility to the Bábí Faith, may be truly regarded as the most marvelous manifestation of the unique potentialities with which a Dispensation promised by all the Dispensations of the past had been endowed.

Rothwell Polk: Baha'is Commemorate The Martyrdom Of The Bab Rothwell Polk 2011

Dispensation for wearing their pants around their ankles and their hats sideways like fools?

Think Progress » GOP Claims It’s Upholding The Legacy Of MLK, A Fighter Against The ‘Injustice’ In Health Care Inequality 2010

In practice, what counted as an emergency was left up to local officials of the TGWU to determine, and practice across the country varied according to the views of the local shop stewards who established 'Dispensation committees' to decide.

Archive 2008-06-01 Not a sheep 2008

In practice, what counted as an emergency was left up to local officials of the TGWU to determine, and practice across the country varied according to the views of the local shop stewards who established 'Dispensation committees' to decide.

'Life on Mars' for real Not a sheep 2008

Set about sixty years in the future, the novel sets up a post climate-crisis world divided into three spheres of influence: the Dispensation, a hypercapitalist, entertainment-obsessed culture centered in Los Angeles; the Aquis, a global environmentalist culture that uses Big Brotherish-techniques to influence its followers; and China, the only remaining nation-state.

2009 June « Exile on Ninth Street 2009

Set about sixty years in the future, the novel sets up a post climate-crisis world divided into three spheres of influence: the Dispensation, a hypercapitalist, entertainment-obsessed culture centered in Los Angeles; the Aquis, a global environmentalist culture that uses Big Brotherish-techniques to influence its followers; and China, the only remaining nation-state.

2009 June 28 « Exile on Ninth Street 2009

There are a lot of interesting ideas projected in the novel, a lot of potential, especially for satire the thickest section of the novel on the Dispensation could provide a potentially interesting satire of business and pop culture, if there were a stronger narrative drive.

The Sunday Salon: Bruce Sterling’s The Caryatids « Exile on Ninth Street 2009

There are a lot of interesting ideas projected in the novel, a lot of potential, especially for satire the thickest section of the novel on the Dispensation could provide a potentially interesting satire of business and pop culture, if there were a stronger narrative drive.

2009 June 28 « Exile on Ninth Street 2009