The usual sanctions loom, but even after the baby is born, they are no match for Edith's dreams.
One former delivery driver told me he became self-employed to escape the "usual silly sanctions" imposed by jobcentres, but ended up making a loss.And take a graphic designer forced into self-employment after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
But at a time when we keep hearing that what we -- that is, Americans -- want and need is entertainment that distracts us, palliates us and sugars over our bitter current circumstance, we're in even more danger than usual of sanctioning and even lionizing the second-rate.
"It's good Uefa are thinking penalties that fit the crime better than the usual sporting sanctions," Inter Milan chief executive Ernesto Paolillo said.
Spanish cycling officials have chosen to be lenient on Alberto Contador in punishing him for testing positive for a banned drug at last year's Tour de France, proposing that he be barred for one year instead of the usual two-year sanction for a first-time offense.
As such, these findings have the potential to inform educational initiatives designed to combat doping in sport outside the usual emphasis on sanctions and testing.
Groups including AIPAC and Foundation for Defense of Democracies are, as usual, advocating more sanctions.
We also continue to support sanctions against Syria, even though sanctions, as usual, do little harm to the regime they are directed at.
America's usual hostile threats of sanction or invasion would not be credible, no matter how ominously Mr Obama manages to glower.
When both the probability and magnitude of sanctions may be varied, the usual solution involves a very high sanction and a relatively low probability of enforcement if individuals are risk neutral.
