Prices for many crops are at record highs, the new line goes, and rich countries need to protect their farmers in order to ensure that their people get fed.This mindless self-sufficiency is trotted out even in America, which is preparing a new farm bill.
Now Obama's big selling point is his promise to get rid of mindless partisanship on heavy issues like health care.
Outside the ground you get a few mindless idiots and the kids from the schools could probably tell you who they are, a handful of kids who have got nothing better to do.
It is all the best bits of the 80s rolled into one, and I'm telling you, people, TV doesn't get much more mindless or restorative than that.
Set in present-day England, "Mrs. Pritchard" is a populist women's-lib fairy tale, the story of a feisty supermarket manager and matron named Ros Pritchard Jane Horrockss) who, after seeing two candidates for Parliament get into a mindless pre-election tussle outside her store, decides that she could probably be a better legislator than most of the meatheads out there.
How do we stop worrying?" For me, when I start to get into the mindless rumination, I will remind myself that it's an almost absolute certainty that everybody, when they get to the end of life, will say to themselves, "I wish I hadn't spent so much time worrying about something that wasn't going to happen".
"The obstructionism has become mindless".
Don't become mindless consumers.
The poems are made no better by giddy lists of images ("the moon a diet of light, sliver of pear, / wedge of lemon, slice of melon, half an orange, / silver onion" — they're phases, get it?) and the mindless natter of Old English alliteration ("No folk fled the flood, / no flags furled or spirits failed — / one brave soul felled. / Fouled fortune followed").
