And R has spent a long time getting used to my family's peccadilloes (lateness, high ratio of addiction, chaos, the sniffing of everything from knickers to food to see if it's acceptable to wear/eat) and I've got used to those of his family (grinding punctuality, low ratio of addiction, the chucking away of anything even slightly dubious smelling or offensive-looking).
But it is not the first time Donald Trump's pugnacious press secretary has got himself into hot water over offensive or dubious claims.
My colleague Jeff Bercovici has already noted the dubious and, some have decreed, offensive decision by Groupon to serve up a satirical Tibet public service announcement, but it's even worse than that.
Over the past few years in my blogs, I have called on Dr. Oz to take brain health more seriously -- from my criticism of his offensive and clinically-dubious "Nuts or Normal" series to my questioning of his adherence to the Hippocratic Oath.
As an educator and the founder of the American Journal of Psychology, Hall's work explored the controversial and dubious properties of gender distinctions (also offensive racial eugenics, but that's another story).
Freedom of speech must mean freedom to be offensive, otherwise we only have the dubious "freedom" to make socially approved comments.
The new play "Oliver Parker!" at the Cherry Lane Theater might qualify as offensive — certainly it strives mightily for that dubious laurel — if it were not so patently artificial.
Then, there's this dubious detail: Denver has won two games without scoring an offensive touchdown.
One of the most offensive aspects of the old allowances regime was the dubious practice of selling taxpayer-funded homes and making off with the capital gain.
Second -- and more generally -- the dubious notion that a limited "residual" U.S. force would play a decisive role in staunching the current jihadist offensive only reinforces the perception of the Iraqi National Army as a hollow, incompetent failure.
