Even Homer sometimes nods.

I found no flaw.

One slip, just one, and we're goners.

lapse, someone immediately attracted the greatest suspicion?

And if I haven't made any careless mistakes, we're done.

Now can anybody spot a flaw in this design?

Now, Lieutenant, in these acts of killing... did you ever have a lapse of memory...

Which, lucky for us, I barely evaded making a careless mistake there, we got the right answer.

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.

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.

We've been trained to think that the way to look at every dispute, every issue, is a matter of kind of individual rights.

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.