Word: feckless
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...talk of the imperial judiciary lately. Conservatives generally abhor judicial activism, or what they call judicial legislation. But in this whole imbroglio in Florida it seems to me that the various judiciaries have acquitted themselves better than any other of the dramatis personae. The candidates have been feckless and self-serving; the legislature has been reflexively partisan; only the courts and judges have actually tried to take a step back and try to make sense out of things...
...this regard, Mr. Gore's campaign is guilty of the most grievous sins thus far, with their feckless insistence, in the absence of any real evidence, that the "will of the people" grants Florida's electors to Gore--and with their reckless promises to forge ahead with lawsuits on behalf of the befuddled voters of Palm Beach County...
...running out of time for feckless moaning. Only days to go. They paid their money - what's our choice? The 1960 analogy is disconcerting. That election came after the relatively serene Eisenhower years. And pretty soon after 1960, all hell broke loose - assassinations, riots, war, the glorious '60s. And the onset of the dark, ruined presidencies - Lyndon Johnson's, Richard Nixon...
...every day that you see your husband bloodily scalped (and then shot to death) in the living room. Maybe feckless Del Sizemore, sleazy used-car salesman and inept drug dealer, had it coming, but still--it's bound to have an effect on a girl...
Left hopelessly in debt by the death of a feckless spouse, Grace Trevethen (the expert Brenda Blethyn) puts her gardening skills to good criminal use. With the help of her handyman, Matthew (Craig Ferguson, who is also the film's co-writer and producer), she starts growing pot by the kilo in her greenhouse. The results are predictable--especially if you're a fan of that most basic of English comic genres, in which simple, provincial folk foil the bumbling law in order to preserve a traditional way of life. Grace is not as tightly wound as the best...