"Amateurism" may be a nostalgia-driven lie, but they're going to cling to it with all their might until some judge finally says otherwise.
You'd have to say that England need to take three or four wickets pretty sharpish with this if they're going to cling to the remote chance of grabbing a win.
Instead, in desperation, the government is going to cling ever more tightly to the old certainties of pointless rote-learning of a few chosen subjects that are deemed – in Nicky Morgan's word – to be "hard", on the basis that if they're hard, they must be good.
"If you're from a minority group and feel like your rights are tramped on and the media is constantly depicting your people as barbaric terrorists who sexually and psychologically abuse their women, then of course you're going to cling on to someone who appears to be defending your people.
According to Tracy Klujian, 35, a bitter florist from suburban Philadelphia, "When I'm not too busy clinging to guns or religion, I'm going to cling to Barack Obama".
The Crew needs to win out and get a little help, which pretty much renders this weekends' contest against Dallas a "must win" if the Crew faithful are going to continue to cling on to their playoff hopes.
But if the Republicans are going to be obstructionist, clinging to failed policies and trying to score political points by keeping the new president from passing the programs he wants (or at least making them look partisan), Obama and the Democrats have to move forward on their own.
Are you going to cling to the belief that this outcome proves a woman can't be President?
So, if Game Change represents some kind of change in the Beltway media guard -- after all, Game Change Central (aka Politico) last week dubbed co-author Mark Halperin "the high priest of establishment political journalism" -- then I'm going to resist change to cling to the Woodward model of elite Beltway reporting.
