Word: foolishnesses
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...easy to make this stuff look foolish and trivial," says Tor Books' Nielsen Hayden. "After all, a lot of everyone's daily life is foolish and trivial. I mean, really, smileys? Housewives in Des Moines who log on as VIXEN...
...what the commotion was about. When they spotted the girl, they nodded their heads and continued their rounds. "What kind of people have we become?" asked another woman. Such scenes fill Muscovites with a sense of dazed anguish, partly because in the past any castoffs of the socialist state foolish enough to make a public appearance were either deported from the city or thrown into psychiatric prisons...
...believe in forcing students into a straitjacket," Keohane says. "If someone wants to get through Harvard without ever reading Shakespeare or knowing what the French Revolution was, I suppose they could do it, but that would be foolish...
...courage to change is often the very definition of leadership, and this particular Clinton flip-flop is better yet because the President expressed his new position without the legalistic fudging that has too often characterized his tenure. This time a foolish and failed policy was forthrightly acknowledged to have outlived its "usefulness," and squarely junked...
Admittedly, Ms. Carrier would have looked foolish had she included in her article the fact the Miami Herald recently made Lennar one of its five finalists for the prestigious "Florida Company of the Year" award, largely because of Lennar's remarkable success in winning back customers after the hurricane. Oh well, that little piece of information wouldn't be conducive to a negative article, so it had to be left...