Morality is a wishy-washy thing and the Republicans claim to be the last bastions of it.
Having said that, every set of headphones have a slightly different way of going about it, and some still require a pairing code (which is almost invariably 0000 or 1234, so it's hardly the bastion of security it perhaps should be).
Beyond that, in a seemingly stuffy, remote world, was Savile Row and its impeccable suits, the bastion of what it was to be a bloody Englishman nose turned up, memories of slaughtering colonial fellows bubbling somewhere at the back of the consciousness.
If there is a truly last bastion of safety, it would be, of course, the U.S. Treasury bond, that venerable instrument with the full faith and credit of the United States behind it.
The week had begun with Liverpool announcing their intention to extend a 120-year love affair with Anfield - but a quick glance at their home record in 2012 was clear evidence that the famous old ground is not the bastion of invincibility it once was.
Beyond that, in a seemingly stuffy, remote world, was Savile Row, the bastion of what it was to be a bloody Englishman, nose turned up, memories of slaughtering colonial fellows bubbling somewhere at the back of the consciousness.
"We've already done 10 Montauk deals from this office," he said, "because people are coming out, looking around, and migrating out there because they see it as the last bastion of the way it was in the old days before everything was gentrified and Ralph Lauren-ed out.
I'll spare you the speech about how The Wall Street Journal, four and a half years after Rupert Murdoch took it over, isn't the bastion of scrupulous probity it once was.
With its 2,000 or so churches, Wenzhou, home to 9 million people, is as well-known as a bastion of Christianity as it is for its gritty entrepreneurship.
It was striking, I remarked, that despite Chicago's image as a bastion of market efficiency, it was also home to much more questioning research in the financial system.
