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“And I think that was the beginning of the rot, which we are paying a price for till today.”

"Wood is more durable in space than on Earth because there's no water or oxygen that would rot or inflame it," Kyoto University forest science professor Koji Murata told Reuters news agency.

Despite the fact-checkers’ best efforts to appeal to everyone by sticking to the facts, half the country seemingly pays no attention at all to their work, and the other half just gets frustrated that the fact-checkers’ inherent “view from nowhere” can sometimes lead them to falsely equate picayune Democratic exaggerations with the fundamental moral rot that infects the heart of Trumpist Republican politics.

Alito’s judicial activism and air of impunity are merely the visible signs of a rot that goes much deeper than a single beknighted justice.

If the promise of America is a pretty white farmhouse, Hooper’s camera directed viewers to the dry rot in the walls and the bodies in the cellar.