Word: foolishnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...short, believing Hussein will live up to a compromise, or that he will not continue to be a regional and global menace in the future, is foolish. The best thing about this brush with war--if that is what the posturing and strategizing of the past few weeks turns out to be--may be the attention that has been refocused on the dangers posed by Baghdad...
Newsweek looks foolish. But was it really so foolish? Even in the pages of a rival, gloating is not called for. TIME was chasing the same story and never had it to throw away, so hats off to the competition. Furthermore, Newsweek's "mistake" was in being more cautious than Drudge about publishing extremely damaging allegations about the President of the U.S. Even if those allegations are true, was the caution misplaced...
...maybe Newsweek was right to get it second and Drudge to get it first. Maybe both staked out their proper places in the media food chain. There will be plenty of times when caution will be rewarded and uncritical insta-printing will look foolish. Or maybe they were both wrong: Newsweek to spike a great scoop and Drudge to publish it. The former view is more appealing, and I'm 80% sure it's right...
...building] is better--much more space, more desks, more offices, fewer safety hazards," he says. "It certainly enables a better paper to be put out. But certainly anyone who denies a little something was lost is being foolish...
...obvious that Kaczynski should qualify on both counts. But his lawyers argue that the nature of his illness prevents him from accepting--and thus cooperating with--a mental-illness defense, and that, they argue, should make him incompetent to stand trial. As for defending himself, only a foolish or delusional person would contemplate it. Kaczynski has lots of clever ideas, but they are also bizarre...