What one chooses, bad or good, may simply reflect the unchosen luck that gave one the ability to be a good or a bad chooser.
Does my breath smell bad?" Choose a person that you trust--someone that won't go around telling people, and someone that will be honest with you about your breath.
Baber's explanation for the choices that deprived women make is that they are making the best of a bad situation, choosing not necessarily what they would prefer all things considered, but rather what they would prefer given their options.
Here the young athletes practiced maneuvers cribbed from television and video games, created new characters, wrote dialogue, decided who was a Face (a good guy) and who was a Heel (a bad guy), chose personal theme songs (Ittem's is "Devil's Dance," by Metallica), and put on shows for girlfriends and neighbors, complete with mock press conferences.
Though the loss of a child is in a category all its own, I'm reminded of the reframing I did while undergoing radiation therapy for cancer years ago: When you've reached a bad ending, choose to make it a middle instead.
Just make sure it's not a bad habit; choose a helpful one or one that doesn't really matter either way.
Bad at captioning, bad at choosing a soundtrack.
If John McCain wants voters to conclude, as he argues, that he has more independence and experience and better judgment than Barack Obama, he made a bad start by choosing Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska.
It was easier to take out Saddam -- and burnish Mr. Bush's credentials as a slam-dunk "war president," suitable for a "Top Gun" victory jig -- than to shut down Al Qaeda and smoke out its leader "dead or alive". But just as politics are a bad motive for choosing a war, so they can be a doomed engine for running a war.
