Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.
As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.
Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.
The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.
I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.
It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.
Moping is an unattractive attribute in a man.
Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.
Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading; it's betting.
People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.
It's no surprise that the Bush administration's bullying swagger and blithe ignorance have caused much of the Muslim world to hold the U.S. in rock-bottom regard.