Then again, I deserved a dose of his skepticism.
Meanwhile, in a lengthy subplot featuring a supply teacher and a bully, we meet characters who do deserve a dose of dumb insolence.
Hizbullah in Lebanon and hardline Palestinian outfits running suicide bombers into Israeli cities richly deserve a dose of the same medicine, do they not?
Elliott Advisors, fresh from chasing the Republic of Argentina over debt restructuring terms, has decided that grand old Alliance Trust, stalwart of the investment trust sector, deserves of dose of activist medicine.
Sure, Barcelona had been fortunate, Juan Cruz suggesting that "they really shouldn't push their luck so much", Oriol Domenech insisting "it's time they added a new word to their dictionary: shoot!" But, claims Marca's Santiago Segurola, "Few teams deserve a dose of fortune like Barcelona".
It slashes trillions of dollars from health care, nutrition and other critical programs that give poor babies and children a decent foundation in life to assure trillions of dollars in tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires and powerful corporations who do not deserve massive doses of government support.
It was a moment in time, a well-deserved dose of relief, albeit earned at the expense of one of the N.B.A.'s worst franchises.
For seeing it through to its conclusion, despite heavy industry lobbying, he and Mr Mañalich deserve a healthy dose of praise.
What skipper Bouwe Bekking did in a former life to deserve yet another dose of Volvo misfortune - he was badly damaged on the first night last time in 2005-06 and the boat was lost on the transatlantic leg - is unknown.
Set against the harsh tongue and poor syntax of his predecessor, Mr Walesa, the nattily dressed, sound-bite-loving ex-communist looked the more modern man that the country was in need of.But Mr Kwasniewski deserves a fair dose of credit.
Geithner's other central theme about making money on the bailouts also deserves a healthy dose of derision.
