What Bowles and Simpson are really saying is Congress and the White House should crawl out of the partisan muck of the manufactured crises Obama was complaining about.
Another day, another troubled European economy punishes its leaders for not being able to wade out of the fiscal muck that continues to paralyze much of the continent.
But the Web is a freewheeling experiment in creative destruction, and an itsy-bitsy piece of software out of Germany might muck up the realm of flashy display ads, an industry on which a Micro-hoo would depend heavily for its ad revenue.
The first thing Ms. Bower saw when she visited the building was "the large white bubble" located on Second Avenue, a "muck house" used to store rock bored out for subway tunnels.