Let's hope things turn out better for Hajji than they did in Nena's danceable-but-depressing protest song.
There is now a price on his head of 10 crore (that's about £1.4m) and the inevitable, depressing slew of protests and threats.
Critics, meanwhile, argued that the protests were depressing NFL television ratings.
Presumably seeing his opportunity to do his part to upset the American economy and lodge his protest against the depressing ills of our current society, the young boy swooped into action.
This season of allegedly perpetual hope, it was depressing enough that those brave, protesting, peaceful Americans who manifested their thanks for their rights – their right to political expression about their justified anger at the Ferguson grand jury, their right to disrupt the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade – got arrested, even as Darren Wilson waltzed comfortably into retirement.
Depressing, because the Ukrainian people were protesting against a naked attempt by supporters of Victor Yanukovich, the current prime minister and choice of the outgoing president, Leonid Kuchma, to steal their presidential election on November 21st.
Robert Seyffert, a member of a group called the Concerned Artists and Members of the National Arts Club, which formed a decade ago to protest Mr. James's actions, called the decision "disappointing and pretty depressing".
The most depressing and even frightening part of the tepid US response to the protests across the region is the lack of appreciation of what kind of gift the US, and West more broadly, are being handed by these movements.
"It's very depressing," said Ahmad Abd Allah, a leader in the 6 April youth movement that helped lead protests in 2011 and has since been banned.
As if that prospect weren't already depressing enough, when we arrived at the venue we were met by a group protesting Israeli attacks on Palestine.
Adele's depressing song deserves to tell the story of all the news from 2015! From Donald Trump and Bill Cosby to protests of gay bakeries and Tom Brady.
