Announcing his intentions on Wednesday, Johnson said: "It is clear I can't endlessly go on dodging these questions.
Mr Johnson has now acted on this prompt, admitting that he could not go on "endlessly go on dodging these questions" about his future.
When one hears about middle schoolers being primed (or pressured) for acceptance by Dartmouth, Harvard or Princeton -- imagine not having mastered calculus before college -- or tunes out talking heads going on endlessly about a 6-year-old being tossed about like a political football, there seems no graver issue than the plight of children being denied the joys of childhood.
You will wonder endlessly what is really going on in the mind of your spouse.
When called, I rushed to service, only to find the debate going on endlessly -- with the legislative clock stopped, there was no rush.
On the other hand, going on endlessly about "my ex this, my ex that", whether negative or positive, is just as off-putting as knowing nothing and will soon have your date's interest in you flagging.
Sometimes you'll experience a moment of cold horror when you realise that it's 1AM and you've been masturbating endlessly – just, endlessly – because there is literally nothing going on in your life.
Sometimes we run stoically, one foot in front of the other, up and down the trail (been there), sometimes we eat to run from our current experience (done that), and sometimes we entertain, distract, and deny to avoid endlessly an examination of what is going on inside and around us yes, that too).
And since compulsive-football commenting is the result of would-be football coaching, I now think that Rush and I are at least part of the same fantasy-coaching tree — the Walter Mitty line, that is, which branches endlessly, and goes on forever.
