The danger is that, by identifying this as 'excellence', it damns everything else, including applied science, user-driven innovation, open science, meta-analysis, regulatory science, social innovation and engagement with policymakers and the public, to mediocrity.
"Damn it, everything's gone," he said.
Like her 1998 hit Broadway show "I'm Still Here... Damn It!," "Everything Bad & Beautiful" intersperses songs with the flimflammery of social commentary, personal history, fantasy, and kvetching.
But first let us at least attempt to put a spanner in the works of those critics who are trying to damn almost everything the Blair/Brown governments did on the domestic policy front.
This is pretty cool, and I hate damn near everything.
Damn near everything you've ever loved to put in your mouth has been determined by one study or another to be bad for you.
"On Sunday they were still having a campaign in which they damned everything that they're now proposing... the question is, therefore, will everything be implemented that's decided on in parliament, or are these just empty promises?" The German markets reacted positively to the news that a new deal was potentially in sight.
And Peggy Noonan says, "I thought Nancy Reagan was damned for everything.
New York's two major league baseball teams continue to slug it out — money be damned — over everything from signage to signings.
If you want a phone that just works and does damned near everything you could want and don't mind Apple's closed garden: by all means, get the iPhone.
