SO last year, when Tim began talking up a "Diner's Bill of Rights" -- common-sense basics ranging from courteous service to the ability to send back unsatisfactory food without charge -- attention had to be paid, although restaurateurs' eyebrows were raised.
To suggest otherwise defies common sense and basic humane values.
"It is a matter of simple common sense and basic equity".
It may be noted that Senator Long's plan for "simple common sense and basic equity" for workers instead became an instrument that damaged those very workers.
The Brazilian foreign ministry has declared the death sentence "unacceptable" and "contrary to the common sense and basic standards of human rights protection" in a letter sent on Monday to the government in Jakarta.
"The issue has been widely discussed, and common sense and basic health principles say both need to go together," said Dr. Jordi Casabona, an infectious-disease expert in Barcelona and a co-president of the conference.
"It is at risk of causing real damage to the industry and to consumers as government and regulatory policy skews towards perpetuating a challenged model in the face of common sense and basic economics," he said.
The GOP trope that the federal government deficit is somehow responsible for high unemployment defies common sense and basic economics.
Or will common sense and basic decency reassert themselves and set us all on a better course?
