Yet it is so foolish that it perfectly illustrates the thoughtlessness of the House Republican bill to cut $61 billion from the budget over the next seven months.
GEORGE ORWELL said that some ideas and opinions were so foolish that you had to belong to the intelligentsia to believe them.
Paul says the government's current plan is so foolish that pilots required to carry guns have been "groped" like ordinary travelers at security checkpoints.
Just as Tory ministers, when establishing personal pensions a decade earlier, couldn't imagine that banks and insurance companies would be so wicked as to missell them, or consumers be so foolish as to buy "products" that made them worse off, so Labour ministers couldn't see that an unregulated market in training would throw up so many charlatans.
And, aside from the marked absence from the list of the most academically challenging of all subjects, music, or the fact that students do not have to read a single full literary text to qualify to be certified as academic, who would be so foolish as to disagree with that?
I would not be so foolish as to say that you can hear the music by gazing at these portraits; but I will say that I am right now about to dig out Little Richard's Get Rich Quick, and then, after that, the Contours doing Smokey Robinson's First I Look at the Purse; then maybe Wanda Jackson's Fujiyama Mama, followed by Dave Brubeck's Take Five or perhaps Ornette Coleman's Empty Foxhole.
And we certainly won't be so foolish as to think that the end of Exodus is the end of the insidious practice of "reparative" or "conversion" therapies.
Never again should anyone doing my job be so foolish, so deluded, as to believe that they have abolished the age-old cycle of boom and bust.
Many of you, by that I mean many of my skeptic and humanist colleagues, expressed deep concern and anger that I would be so foolish as to accept a debate with a creationist, as this would promote him and them more than it would promote me and us.
They can't do that by repeating the old mantra, "People would never be so foolish..."...
