I think it's been 43 times in all — votes that have been utterly pointless, in that the Senate is still run by Democrats, and the law is President Obama's signature achievement, and there's no way on God's green earth it will be repealed.
Mr Rerngchai denies the charges, and has launched a countersuit against the current bank chief and two other officials for improper procedure.The whole exercise seems grossly unfair, in that many other officials and politicians must have had a hand in the policy, as well as pointless, in that Mr Rerngchai seems unlikely to stump up the 186 billion baht he is alleged to owe.
And yet it somehow seems wrong to lump Pointless in with that lot.
So pointless, in fact, that nearly a million people anxiously waited for said host – too plugged-in, it turned out, and not in a trolly way – to post a picture on the internet.
There is a degree of societal introspection taking place, one that was pointless in totalitarian societies that discouraged, and often punished, civic participation.
It's pointless, really, but in that moment, you really care what happens next.
He's into "deficit neutral tax reform," which, as I like to say around here, is like "cake-neutral baking" -- and exercise so pointless in the undertaking, that only an idiot goes to the trouble.
The exception was Dover sole meuniere, a special one recent weeknight: after being sauteed in the kitchen, it was finished tableside in a pointless ceremony that added nothing, as far as I could see, but an overdose of butter and perhaps a few dollars to the price.
IT'S the noise, writes David Grossman, the gunshots, sirens, incendiary clichés, the frantic ringing of telephones: a cacophony, he believes, that saves Israelis and Palestinians from the silence that might otherwise tell them that they are squandering their lives in a pointless struggle that should have been resolved long ago.
Thin blacktop cuts between fields and swamp and islands of trees, some of the roads linking up with other seemingly pointless routes that go nowhere in particular, others just petering out into dirt roads that vanish into the weeds a few miles on.
Some of these numbers will hold great importance, become the pillars upon which love affairs, life-saving friendships, international diplomatic relations and drug addictions are built, while others will merely be conduits for fleeting calls and texts, vocal or written blue moonery that will soon evanesce into the matrix like all the other pointless digits that surround us in our lives.
