It's funny, but..... I, myself, don't work in a business where I have clients. I am the client in most cases. But I have a friend who is a business owner, and someone I listen to. He told me once: "sometimes you just have to fire a client". Me, being from the 'customer is always right' side of the fence, couldn't believe this. All customers are good, right? No, he explained to me. Some customers end up costing you way more than you make from them. You have to fire those customers.

Makes sense to me.

"fulsome" means insincere or offensively excessive.

Seems we are both right, although as noted below, the use is ambiguous.

ful·some [fool-suhm, fuhl-]

–adjective

1. offensive to good taste, esp. as being excessive; overdone or gross: fulsome praise that embarrassed her deeply; fulsome décor.

2. disgusting; sickening; repulsive: a table heaped with fulsome mounds of greasy foods.

3. excessively or insincerely lavish: fulsome admiration.

4. encompassing all aspects; comprehensive: a fulsome survey of the political situation in Central America.

5. abundant or copious.

[Origin: 1200–50; ME fulsom. See full1, -some1]

—Related forms

ful·some·ly, adverb

ful·some·ness, noun

—Usage note In the 13th century when it was first used, fulsome meant simply “abundant or copious.” It later developed additional senses of “offensive, gross” and “disgusting, sickening,” probably by association with foul, and still later a sense of excessiveness: a fulsome disease; a fulsome meal, replete with too much of everything. For some centuries fulsome was used exclusively, or nearly so, with these unfavorable meanings.

Today, both fulsome and fulsomely are also used in senses closer to the original one: The sparse language of the new Prayer Book contrasts with the fulsome language of Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer. Later they discussed the topic more fulsomely. These uses are often criticized on the grounds that fulsome must always retain its connotations of “excessive” or “offensive.” The common phrase fulsome praise is thus sometimes ambiguous in modern use.

What does smart mean? How about intellectual? Do either have Nything to do with evaluating situations, and providing a realistic and correct interpretation? Krauthamer has been wrong about so

any things, I don't Know how he even keeps his job as a commentator. How he has any standing to evaluate Obama's intelligence is a mystery. The guy should be retired where his opinions can kill no more American soldiers.

Patrick,

I'm very sorry about the passing of your mother. I wish you comfort, peace and happy memories of her.

So Republican congress members would rather have terrorists blow up an American city with nuclear bombs, than to have all Americans have health insurance.

It us nice of you to wish Beck well, but deep down didn't you wish for just a moment he's followed through on his threat to blow his own brains out?

Of course by Beck's Orwellian logic, doing so would improve his health.

"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation".

-George Orwell

...Gingritch and his intercepted cell phone conversation.

Can we get off of the WH party crashers and print more about Tiger Woods'car accident instead? Because, you know, there hasn't been enoigh coverage of that.