Most of us are pretty lame at dreaming.
We are, Williams suggests, "unable to curb / the sarcasm that lames our dreams".
One of the most controversial items on the lame-duck agenda — the Dream Act, offering the children of illegal immigrants a path to citizenship — was defeated by bipartisan opposition.
I made a lame joke: "Maybe you could dream about it".
Those minutes were devoted not just to recycling the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bosnian sniper fire and another lame question about a possible "dream ticket" but to the unseemly number of intrusive commercials and network promos that prompted the jeering at the end.
After years of complaining about lame, painfully unimaginative portrayals of dreaming in television and movies, I can now say there is a TV show that accurately, and entertainingly, conveys many of the sensory qualities and content themes that typify actual dreaming.
In 2010, congressional Democrats planned to take up the DREAM Act in a lame duck session of Congress.
The past two years have been heartbreaking, as we watched Congress in 2010 vote down the DREAM Act in a lame duck session.
Voting on the DREAM Act in the lame duck Congress now has the support of the president and both of the Democratic leaders in the House and Senate.
Will Republicans stand up against this Dream Act during the lame-duck session and will certain Republicans fold?
