No doubt there will be some headteachers giving a quiet cheer at the announcement that parent-governors are to be ushered gently towards the exit.
Not because they will enrage the Communist party bosses looking to turn the 2008 games into a propaganda triumph: annoying them will win a quiet cheer from this blogger any time.
Every time the right wing of the Liberal party takes on Turnbull over things such as a Safe Schools campaign or climate policy and forces some kind of internal compromise, or awkward paper-over backdown, Labor HQ gives a quiet cheer.
Peggy Noonan wasn't being tongue-in-cheek when she wondered in The Wall Street Journal last month whether Mr. Obama "understands the kind of quiet cheering he is beginning to garner from some Republicans".
Faced with the choice of running for re-election armed with a principle or with potentially millions more dollars to help offset the current Republican advantage in the super PAC wars, he set aside the principle, prompting quiet cheers from party operatives and expressions of outrage from advocates of tighter campaign finance controls.
In the mornings, after Sasha had eaten her breakfast of bananas, oatmeal, yogurt and orange juice, we'd play in the living room and listen to Dan Zanes on my laptop, and Sasha would stare out the big bay windows at the damp, quiet street, cheering and tapping at the glass in wonder.
In some quarters of the world, 'tis the season to keep your holiday cheer quiet.
"There was quiet and then cheering," Dr. Miller said.
As the Devils celebrated, the Madison Square Garden crowd went so quiet that the cheers from the Devils players could be heard in the upper decks.
From the start, Bryan had his audience: when he finished a sentence, they would rise, shout and cheer, then quiet themselves to ready for the next words; the Nebraskan later described the convention as like a trained choir.
Because even those who choose to keep quiet, even those who cheer court side or stand in line for that hard to get table, even those who turn their lens away, even those who ignore or deny what is happening in our communities, cities and states, even those people could very well be... the next one.
