Whatever the case, I wrote a bit of a hornet-nest-stirring-post yesterday that ended up, thankfully, as something of a learning experience.
Asking Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin what President Bush means by complete victory is like poking a hornet's nest.
In its rush to pass weak health care and financial reforms Congress has created a hornet's nest of antigrowth provisions.
Mr Carter apparently read more than 35 books on the war in preparation, and spent seven years writing The Hornet's Nest.
"He was left a hornet's nest, " says his cousin Charlotte Ford.
Even the man who started the war -- or, as Mexicans like to say, stirred the hornet's nest -- now claims that it's not winnable.
Not surprisingly, the policy change has stirred up a hornet's nest.
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Prashant Bhushan, a leading lawyer, has stirred a hornet's nest by openly supporting a referendum in Indian-administered Kashmir, something that is anathema to most Indians.
Ireland's fastest growing technology firm has stirred up a hornet's nest in the telecoms sector by claiming advance notice of an investigation decision by UK telecoms regulator Oftel.
Also, for fun: John Osbon, founder of Osbon Capital Management, recommends a trio by Steig Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl who Played with Fire and The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
But he denied that by allowing teams to walk off in protest at racism Fifa would be stirring up a hornet's nest, with fans of a losing team striking up abuse to have a game called off.
Even with the evidence against this fuel--its energy inefficiency and environmental harm--he probably won't feel he can stir up a political hornet's nest and cut back various ethanol subsidies, particularly the 54-cents-per-gallon tariff on competing Brazilian-produced sugar-based ethanol.
At their latest gathering on January 23rd, held to the great embarrassment of the local mayor at the Osaka International Peace Centre, they managed to do what they have not been able to achieve in ages: stir up a hornet's nest of interest.
"All they did was poke the hornet's nest, " says Kyle Scott, who runs a Phillies-fan blog and has launched a counterattack he calls "The Takeover, " complete with an online map of the stadium pointing out where traveling fans should set up camps.
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