And it makes it perfectly laughable to suggest, as many in the business community now do, that during the first 16 months of the Obama administration the pendulum has already swung back too far in the other direction.
First and foremost, the great Russian classic literature, we will make it look laughable, we will show it in bad light.
"If what the U.S. puts on the table is laughable and weak, it makes it easy for the rest of the world to go ahead without us," said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Civil liberties groups have argued that CSEC's secret powers and laughable oversight make it ripe for abuse, and Vonn says that Calandra's attack means the proof is now in the pudding.
"That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them".
Cut to two decades later and the beleaguered league has a new face in Jules Rimet (Dépardieu, a good enough actor that he almost makes this laughable film tolerable).
This bankrupt political group now makes some laughable claims, but the Green Movement and the MEK have a wall between them and all of us," she told Foreign Policy magazine in 2010.
But we should also be wary of any proposal for financial regulatory reform that makes a laughable lunge for simplicity, especially if they don't come after fierce debate.
Through plain, albeit it sometimes laughable, prose, E.L. James made female sexuality accessible and approachable to the average reader.
I find it quite laughable that BT is making its return to the mobile market with a "BlackBerry-style smart-phone" considering that device is the HTC Dash, which is a dinosaur here in the States.
