Critics said Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, was foolish for locking in long-term rates at the market's peak.
Mr Brooks seems to take it as evidence that it was foolish for government to even try to battle the market.
When Congressional Republicans do talk about health care, they have one useful suggestion — tort reform — and it was foolish for Democrats (in bed with trial lawyers) to stiff them on it.
The latest warning, published by the official Korean Central News Agency today, said it was "foolish for the U.S. to expect any change in our attitude". But American officials have said in recent weeks that they have seen no activity to suggest that a launching was imminent.
The assignment is enough of a challenge that one of Mr. Hendi's peers, Muhammad Dahlan, head of preventive security in Gaza, openly questioned the timing of the arrests, saying it was foolish for security services to detain Palestinians when Israel might yet invade.
In 1977, Microsoft won an arbitration case in a contract dispute with MITS and Pertec about the sales and ownership of the Gates-Allen version of Basic -- a judicial error, Mr. Roberts says, while Mr. Gates says it was foolish for Pertec and MITS to pursue the case in the first place.
