It's only decent to admire anyone or anything that proves us wrong, and Marion and Geoff (Wednesday, 10pm, BBC2) was responsible for refuting one of my most deeply held rules of TV.
Rodgers, the leading candidate for most valuable player and the primary reason the Packers have won 18 consecutive games dating from last season, was only decent by his standards: he completed 28 of 46 passes for 369 yards and 4 touchdown passes, with one interception.
"I sounded decent, but you shouldn't ever do something just because you're only decent at it".
So? It's only decent to say grace before you swallow your dignity.
The waves are only decent during winter, and even then you can only surf during a small window of daylight.
Commenting on his unsuccessful search, Hume wrote that the hundreds of house sparrows he killed in pursuit of the Sind sparrow "ought to form a heavy load" on Blyth's conscience, and that if the Sind sparrow existed "it would be only decent for it... to put on an appearance with as little delay as possible".
Milda comes home very late, and after an evening of comically painful tension and uncertainty, his parents decide it's only decent to put the girl up for the night on the sofa, requiring Milda to climb into bed with them in order to avoid any appearance of impropriety.
"There is only one decent and humane reaction to the fall of Saddam Hussein: Good riddance," Mr. Bush told a cheering crowd of military reservists and their families in Portsmouth.
Of course, the characterization as decent is only in relation to that outlier.
So, if my perspective is valid, calling these people "good, decent conservatives" is only part of the truth.
