Even Homer sometimes nods.

Egon Krenz, the Communist boss of the German Democratic Republic, called it a botch.

This is Europe s new reality, not a momentary lapse in good order.

So we sell 'em, and then something weird had been happening with the stores. The store, actually even though we started out as just a gag the store actually made money.

And yet, we've been trained to squint into this legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society, where everyone will agree what's fair, and where accidents will be extinct, risk will be no more.

The deficit orgy of the Reagan era is looking less like a freak political accident and more like a structural feature of Republican Party governance what the modern Republican governing coalition tends to do whenever it gains power

A bleaker prospect is not to be found in economics. Ricardo s orthodox followers took no notice of it, assuming it to be a rare lapse by the Master.