In an article on the Royal College of Midwives website, writer Julie Griffiths says: "There is the dubious action of waving a naked flame near a newborn or, indeed, new mother who presumably is lying in bed, covered by sheets - hopefully flame retardant ones.
It's a surprisingly fruitful metaphor, largely unexplored in the medium, for what it feels like to be a video game player who is joyfully complicit in a series of morally dubious actions.
These arguments are a sweet substitute for the thankless task of formulating honest answers to the questions raised by ISIS, which would inevitably mean advocating morally dubious actions with no certainty of a good outcome, as well as having to repudiate many of one's earlier views.
As a practicing attorney, Field had some clients who led him into dubious actions.
The real contribution comes from watching Conason's exertions as he tries to justify the Clintons' more dubious actions.
Attackers leverage preexisting trust between victims and the chosen false identities to spur dubious actions (illegally transferring money, remailing stolen goods, installing malware on computers, and recommending fraudulent services to friends).
But Human Rights Watch, based in New York, has created a separate page on its Web site (www.hrw.org) called "Opportunism in the Face of Tragedy," where it lists dubious actions taken by governments in the name of fighting terrorism.
Jarecki and Gibney devote some time to Kissinger's farcical career as a "swinger," but they gloss over his achievements in playing off the Soviet Union and China against each other and thereby hastening the American victory in the Cold War — the cause for which, after all, Kissinger's more dubious actions were taken.
Much as I dislike Schumacher for the various dubious actions he's taken over the years, there's no denying he's one of the all-time greats, and a field containing him, Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel, Button and Massa would be about as good a grid as there's been for decades.
