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...deferring of critical decisions about how to rescue the financial system, housing, rising unemployment, and consumer spending will be blamed on the months of transition between the election of a new president and his inauguration. The observation is fair but it is also pointless. If a runaway train is gaining speed at a dangerous rate, all that matters is whether someone pulls the brakes.The train will not have a bias about who that might...
...dogs are remarkably well-behaved and easy to train and exhibit no desire to examine each other's privates. Or, for that matter, fight. Are they dogs, or are they large gerbils? Complaining about the plausibility of a children's movie is generally a pointless venture - the best kids' films include major flights of fancy - but parents should go into Hotel for Dogs prepared to defend their right to not bring home each and every dog at the shelter. Real dogs are nothing like these dogs...
...stimulate a stumbling economy? For decades, the consensus among economists was that this was a job best left to the Federal Reserve and to such automatic fiscal stabilizers as unemployment insurance. Passing laws in Congress to cut taxes or boost spending to stave off a downturn was seen as pointless at best. Such help would arrive too late or in the wrong place, the thinking went, or would have no impact at all. (See TIME's "Bailout Report Card...
...can’t fill your stomach with a pretty graph.” Such mistrust of science, where it occurs, is not entirely surprising: Consider the great number of “experts” who discredited themselves through spectacularly imprecise predictions and pointless internecine skirmishes. The public cannot help but feel confused to the point of paralysis by the holding pattern of contradictory studies and untenable claims into which today’s scientific discourse can lapse...
When methadone was first proposed for the treatment of heroin addiction, it sounded like a pointless gambit - sort of like substituting vodka for gin. That's enabling addicts, critics said, not helping them...