Word: oughtness
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After failing to convince the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) that he ought to be allowed to participate in the University of Massachusetts at Boston debate, the Green Party presidential nominee will create a major media event of his own by holding court a few miles away on Sunday, at the FleetCenter, surrounded by thousands of his allies...
...major difference between the boy who was and the writer-director who is. He has now found a crew of similarly skewed comic co-conspirators and perfected an improvisational technique that permits him to explore - with the sweetest, deadest pan - that place where our visions of glory ought to die for lack of nourishment but somehow survive on the crumbs of hope that drop from the celebrity culture's groaning board...
...what can be done? Obviously, the athletes and coaches themselves must take the first steps. Training, exercise and diet are proper paths; banned substances aren't. They also ought to educate themselves more (with help from their countries) about what exactly is and isn't banned, to avoid any mistakes...
...which any sensible observer ought to reply, nonsense...
...field investigation won't be launched until the Justice Department's Public Integrity section greenlights it, based on a conclusion that some federal criminal law may have been broken. "We are the Federal Bureau of Investigation and we conduct criminal investigations," as one veteran agent puts it. "Somebody probably ought to investigate it. It's unethical, it's offensive and there may be an FEC violation here. But is it a criminal violation...