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• v  urinate, of cattle and horses
• a  lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age
  stale bread
  the beer was stale
• s  lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
  stale news

• The Supreme Court was the last bastion of the male: a stale dark room that needed to be cracked open.
• Still, by the time he began work on Shaolin Soccer, Chow was starting to worry that his movies were getting stale.
• It's both random and beautiful and never feels stale.

• cold
• dusty
• moth-eaten

• fresh

News & Articles

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• Why is Gold Draining out of COMEX Warehouses?
  Gold conspiracy theorists have a new bogeyman. Inventories of gold bars held in the COMEX warehouses are falling. This fact is offered to support the stale allegations of “fractional gold” and “manipulation”. They have been predicting a “signal failure” that is coming any day now, like the Great Pumpkin in the Charlie Brown Halloween special. If not that, then surely at least the price of gold ...
  June 14, 2013 - Zero Hedge
• These Four Books Should Top Every Marketer's Summer Reading List
  Everyone needs to unplug from the office now and then; you?ll get stale ?or worse, burn out ?if you don?t. But this summer, you don?t have to completely disengage from all things marketing just because you?re relaxing at the beach. Why? Because there are a handful of new business books that happen to be just as entertaining and enjoyable to read as they are informative.
  June 12, 2013 - Forbes
• NYC Summers Will Be Hot and Nasty for Decades and You Can Blame the Oceans
  New York City summers are disgusting: the city smells like stale urine, the subway stations turn into saunas, and all the elegant New Yorkers transform into perspiring troglodytes. And just when you thought it couldn't get any more gross, a report from city officials due out today insists that the hot mess is just beginning — and that Alabama-level summers are on the way to the Big Apple. ...
  June 11, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in San Francisco Chronicle
  What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them, that the stale political arguments no longer apply,Obama said. "The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it...
• David Brooks in International Herald Tribune
  To come up in this moment in history with a stale, 'Government is the problem, you can't trust the federal government' is just a disaster for the Republican Party,Brooks said on PBS' "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." "It's not where the...
• Kevin Rudd in FOX News
  Our country has a future too full of promise to allow a government that's been in office for 11 years, a government that's lost touch, and a government that's gone stale, just to continue on,Rudd said.