A quick straw poll shouted around the sports wing of Guardian Towers reveals that in the office today we have two confirmed pessimists, one foolhardy optimist (that's me), and one agnostic.
There's nothing foolhardy about that.
Despite a lot of hemming and hawing in the face of protest, Brandeis still gives every indication of wanting to close its Rose Art Museum, opening the path to selling its art, as foolhardy as that would be in the present economy.
As for the younger crowd, they have the example of the US invasion of Iraq, something they view as a foolhardy misadventure that ultimately resulted in many, many lives being lost – particularly the lives of Iraqi civilians.
"There's something to me about proposing a clean slate for the future by looking at this slate from the past, which I realize is quixotic and foolhardy — nevertheless, that's why we're here to make art, to propose an alternative path".
The increases were undoubtedly generous but accompanied by a foolhardy view that because of that practically anything was possible.
It turns out that Fast and Furious, the foolhardy government operation that allowed high-powered weapons to cross the border to Mexican drug cartels, was not a one-off.
Some find the link between energy access and climate change a source of tension, arguing that it is foolhardy, given that the world is hurtling towards dangerously high levels of carbon in the atmosphere, to encourage nearly half the world's population to use more energy.
For decades, coastal scientists have argued that these policies are foolhardy, and that the nation must begin planning an orderly retreat from large portions of its coasts, but few politicians have been willing to embrace that message or to warn the public of the rising risks.
