plain sense

Unfortunately, some brands lack the self-awareness or plain sense to cancel their pranks, and The Verge has already received a handful of absolutely terrible pitches in the past week that signal more is coming.

We are entitled to our various opinions but this is just plain sense.

“My God, my God, thou art a direct God, may I not say a literal God, a God that wouldst be understood literally and according to the plain sense of all that thou sayest ? But thou art also… a figurative, a metaphorical God too.”

The March for Science was conceived in January, in the wake of the highly successful Women’s March and in response to a series of increasingly egregious assaults by the Trump Administration on scientific truth and plain sense—the appointment, in Scott Pruitt, of an E.P.A. chief who saw no real need for the E.P.A.; the dismissal of climate change as a reality and even as a phrase; the proposed slashing of the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the agencies responsible for gathering climate data.

Anyone who cares about traffic, the environment, tax rates and plain sense should want to put rationalized parking policy on the agenda.