For those unaware that network television is providing a fascinating but in some ways depressing representation of relations between a mother and her adult children, drop in on the show.
Once viewed as a rather depressing slop, muesli's austere relation, it seems these days that everyone is eating porridge for breakfast.
But this is only the latest example of a depressing theme in U.S.-Philippine relations.
Its shares have gone nowhere (and declined 20% since late 2005), its sales are all but stagnant, and its news feed is a depressing drumbeat of legal and public relations woes.
Elsewhere throughout the country, the legend found on monuments: "Destroyed by the Japanese in 1593 and reconstructed... .. or "Destroyed by the Japanese in 1915... .. make a depressing mantra, and go some way to explaining relations between the two countries.
The Boston Symphony has traveled light-years since the final seasons of Seiji Ozawa's tenure, when discordant relations between the players and Mr. Ozawa were too often manifest in depressing performances.
But it's like visiting your relations at Christmas: even though it's got to be done, it can be so depressing.
"Depressing, depressing, depressing, despicable, depressing, annoying, depressing; repeat 8x," Tkacik summarized her take on the book.
