This was understandable 15 years ago but the world has moved on.
The urge to hurl a fragmentation grenade under the tent-flap of the entire political-economic establishment is, at some level, perfectly understandable after years of war and economic catastrophe, largely visited upon the unluckiest among us.
So Chevrolet's anxieties about its current ad campaign, based around the ponderous slogan "Chevy Runs Deep", are understandable.A year ago Chevy sacked Campbell-Ewald, the Detroit ad agency it had used for 91 years, dumped its old slogan of "Like a Rock", and launched the new campaign through Goodby, Silverstein of San Francisco.
It was understandable: The war years coincided with my childhood, and then with the beginnings of maturity, of rational thought, of consciousness.
This about-face is also understandable: after 30 years in the Senate, McCain is facing a tough primary fight against a Tea Party opponent.
As a key barometer for the mood of the NHS, this is entirely understandable, especially in years when one set of changes after another seemed to loom ahead, waiting to be foisted on a service which could only wait and hope it survived.
The pseudonym is understandable: only four years earlier, Gore Vidal was banished from the New York Times' book review pages for his gay melodrama The City And The Pillar, and Highsmith was no doubt aware of the vicious national anti-gay witch-hunts of the period.
That sunshiny outlook was more understandable a couple years ago.
Wariness at the FDA is understandable: In four years it has endured the embarrassment of the recall of ten drugs it had approved as safe and effective after they were linked to rare but potentially deadly side effects.
What makes the change I have just described so fascinating is that so many of the traditional limited partners to venture capital funds have withdrawn from the asset class in the last few years, understandable perhaps after 10 years of poor returns.
