I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.
The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
Now, unfortunately, some prissy card-carrying members of the U.S. Constitution have made us all look bad by pointing out that many of the Gitmo detainees weren't guilty of anything. Whoops!
Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
The pollution problem is always seen as someone who was doing something bad that has to be stopped. To me, pollution is doing something bad and good. People don't pollute because they like polluting. They do it because it's a cheaper way of producing something else.
I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.
When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.
Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.
Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
My old school hip-hop would probably consist of Bad N-Fluenz, The Dangerous Crew, Seagrams, Mr. ILL, RBL Posse, Rappin' 4-Tay.
This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.
I'm not the guy with the enormous comedy nose or the big feet or the bad posture or the whatever; a physical comic has certain things.
Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
