E-mail, social media and the 24-hour news cycle are informational amphetamines, a cocktail of pills that we pop at an increasingly fast pace — and that lead us to make mistaken split-second decisions.
To continue our Game 5 theme, Anthony this time learned from his mistake, split the defenders and buried a leaner, the moral being: natural point forwards — especially those who are as productive as Anthony — cannot script their decisions as much as they must feel them in the flow of the game.
But Obama's personal caution and conservatism, his sense of rectitude, as well as his idea of politics as a mature calling, shouldn't be mistaken for split-the-difference centrism on every issue.
Andy Murray made a mistake splitting from coach Ivan Lendl, former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic says.
They would be making a huge mistake splitting them up, but I think they will in Test cricket.
"The referees, they try to do their best and sometimes they make mistakes and normally during the season the mistakes are split between teams.
Garner has said it would be a big mistake to split Openreach from BT and that he has been working to improve service.
On Wall Street and within the media industry, the most provocative thought about AOL Time Warner these days is that the company should admit that the merger that created it -- the biggest merger in United States history -- was all a big mistake and split into two companies again: America Online and Time Warner.
This series has underlined my opinion that it would be a big mistake to split Test cricket into two divisions.
When the two Democrats appear simultaneously on a split screen, Edwards could be mistaken for Kerry's sign-language interpreter.
But I also hoped that for one split second I might be mistaken for this year's best actress.
