(We have met the enemy and they are... bloggers?) Certainly, the House Republicans who held their breath until the country turned blue acted like foolhardy children on what John McCain called "a fool's errand".
Some might say it's foolhardy to take your child into sharky waters, but I calculate that it's OK if you take local advice, treat the animals with respect, and stay cool and calm in the water.
It's not enough (and, indeed is downright foolhardy) to put the child in the pool, then shout instructions to them on how to swim while sitting on the edge of the pool, drinking a smoothie and reading a magazine.
Some would call the 59-year-old Mr. Rosen crazy, obsessed, foolhardy -- his grown children and in-laws among them -- for accepting a yearlong posting to begin in January in Kabul, where Columbia University, Unicef and the local ministry of education are working to rebuild Afghanistan's school system.
Since legislation is likely to lag behind the science and to be too heavily influenced by status-quo bias, "wrongful life" lawsuits, in which children sue foolhardy parents and the scientists who humoured them, will become the main check on the new technology.
Only foolhardy parents would allow their children to provide only the grades on their report cards that they were happy with.
Some said that he had tried to jump, as children craving entertainment, foolhardy or not, sometimes did, and had slipped or misjudged the distance.
And it was extremely foolhardy to drag my young children thousands of miles away from their home for several months but, at the time, I felt I had no choice.
But that enthusiasm does not mean she is foolhardy enough to have the fourth child she is now expecting in a Soviet-style Armenian hospital instead of flying home.
As a small child, he would never refuse a mission, no matter how foolhardy, from an older brother or sister.
