The alternative, a world where writers like Lewis give forth from elevated platforms, and presumably close their eyes while using Twitter to avoid being sullied by uninformed froth, is a fairly sad and ridiculous one.
As part of our "let's be friends" campaign, we went to see a film on Valentine's Day: two separated, disappointed, fairly sad people sitting in the cinema on a Saturday afternoon, just to avoid hiding at home alone from the Hallmark holiday.
Graeme Swann says it is not important for him to be the number one spinner in the England side and that only someone "fairly sad" would worry about how other players are performing.
"Of course I'll be hoping to be the man in possession but, if you spend your whole life just looking over your shoulder, I think you're a fairly sad individual.
MySpace's motivation to deal with the problem may be fairly sad (just to avoid bad press), but at least they're doing the right thing by getting this hate speech off the site.
In two short segments, O'Reilly walked through his case, responded to factual charges of hypocrisy with some fairly sad parsing and then, when desperate, with rank "pettifogging," to use a term bandied by both men.
