And that resulted in my learning to think for myself, to fend for myself, and--during the often long stretches when my brother and sister were happily colluding on something that seemed to me like a Very Bad Idea, or blithely forgetting I existed--to entertain myself.
Indeed, the authors show some differences between reporters a useful reminder that a knockin cannot blithely be assumed to recapitulate all aspects of normal regulation.
Blithely disregarding any rules that might exist about drinking in the workplace, I sneaked a proper beer in there too, to see how they compared.
At a time when most businesses have reasonably modest expectations, Carmen Ruest, one of the original Cirque pioneers and now the company's "director of creation", blithely told me: "The word impossible does not exist here".
Abbott was forthright in the lead up to the election that there would be "no cuts to pensions, no cuts to education, no cuts to the ABC or SBS" with a Coalition victory, promises that were shredded by his government in their first budget, on the pretext of a "budget emergency" that treasurer Joe Hockey blithely admitted to a recent audience in New Zealand does not, did not, did never exist.
Now that the Wall Street Journal and CNBC mainly exist to cheer-lead for the financial sector's greatest stupidities and blithely misinform their customers, what can I say?
But the bruises, if they exist, are not visible to the naked eye, and he still exudes a certain kind of ambition, telling me blithely that the words "foreign policy don't really do justice" to his current interests ("it's the big forces shaping the world [that I'm interested in]," he says).
So, Bayh is a "big deficit hawk" whose idea of "coming to grips" with deficits is to blithely assert the primacy of a war that he can't build a case for -- at the expense of other programs in the budget that he won't build a case against, other than to suggest that they are getting in the way of paying for the war, the cost of which he's already bent on pretending doesn't exist.
Equally, though, this was not what Hitchens blithely calls "one of the happiest, fairest and kindest societies which has ever existed in this imperfect world".
The statement almost blithely ignores the existence of Twitter, of course.
