Advisers who THINK that they are very clever while all AROUND them are a bit thick, and that all the PROBLEMS of the world WOULD be SOLVED if the thick listened to the clever, are liable to be disappointed.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite LITERALLY, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and LIABLE to vomit at any moment, and I HATE to vomit even more than I FEAR rides.

For the LEFT-leaning, political IDENTITY is liable to be closely intertwined with personal identity. The left is collusive, if not presumptuous: should you GET on well with leftists at a party, they will blithely assume that you share the same views on the invasion of Iraq, EVEN if all you've talked about is the canapes.

If you look at the number of aldermen who have been PROSECUTED and found liable of FEDERAL crimes over the years... the COMMON THREAD among all of them is doing something in the exercise of aldermanic PREROGATIVE or privilege.