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  • I like to work in a small dark coccoon with a desklamp.

    Sunday morning giggle ... karenmiller 2009

  • A few Latin American countries come to mind as (sorta) democracies that lapse into tyranny, but this is by no means the natural course of events, a beautiful butterfly zipping itself into a coccoon to emerge as a grubby dictator worm.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism 2010

  • A few Latin American countries come to mind as sorta democracies that lapse into tyranny, but this is by no means the natural course of events, a beautiful butterfly zipping itself into a coccoon to emerge as a grubby dictator worm.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism 2010

  • If a hypothetical unknown Irish author emerges from the sheltering coccoon of mutually supportive Hibernian blurbsters, will a third, fourth and seventh printing replace some of the praise from fellow Irish authors with blurbs from critics and other more or less independent sources

    Grim laughs: A question on humor and crime fiction Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • If a hypothetical unknown Irish author emerges from the sheltering coccoon of mutually supportive Hibernian blurbsters, will a third, fourth and seventh printing replace some of the praise from fellow Irish authors with blurbs from critics and other more or less independent sources, or at least augment it?

    Grim laughs: A question on humor and crime fiction Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • And they're still somewhat cut off from the world (For years Jackson kept his children out of the public eye and when they did emerge from his coccoon of privacy they were often shrouded -- literally -- in veils to prevent pix of the three getting into the press.).

    A year later, Michael Jackson's kids still isolated, grieving 2010

  • ANyone who thought an African American with the name Barack Hussein Obama would be trouncing the most popular mavericky Republican, evah, this side of the grave, was, in fact delusional and trapped in a coccoon

    Election Central Saturday Roundup 2009

  • She will go into her coccoon and only hear what she wants to hear.

    Obama Radio Ad In Vermont Stars Patrick Leahy 2009

  • For some truly amazing close-up photos of poppies — to make you ooh and aaah and perhaps cultivate a love of botany — you simply have to visit this website: A Close-up View of the Icelandic Arctic Poppy The photo of the poppy 'hatching from its coccoon' is my favorite.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Field Notes 2009

  • It should be galling, but either he's been living in a coccoon, or, he (and perhaps the other Republican candidates) have somehow managed to convince themselves that the crappy job the traditional media does on just about damn near everything these days somehow won't be a problem for them.

    Finally! McCain Questions Rudy's National Security Credentials 2009

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