Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...none for the vague sense of disappointment when a century begins and precious little changes? In the year 2000--the year 2000!--we were supposed to be listening to Theremin symphonies and watching theater in our heads. Instead, we were slinging misogynist raps and hosting game shows, just like yesterday...
...facts because this is less elusive than the real problem, which is intellectual dishonesty. This means saying things you don't really believe. It means starting with the conclusion you wish to reach and coming up with an argument. It means being untroubled by inconsistency between what you said yesterday and what you say tomorrow, or between standards you apply to your side or the other guy's. It means, in short, spin...
Lawyers are free, of course, to take any side of a given case and are not restricted in what they say on behalf of today's client by what they may have said on behalf of yesterday's. In recent years, these necessary lawyerly hypocrisies have leached out of the courtroom as lawyers have taken on broader roles and big legal cases have become multifront battlefields. The most important battlefield is often the courthouse steps...
...America, we pride ourselves on having things done yesterday. Of late, we are all supposed to be working on "Internet time," which seems to mean that everything must by done by the day before yesterday...
...point is, the earth won't stand still if certain things are late. Deadlines, even constitutional ones, are arbitrary. They are lines drawn in the sand. (There are some natural signposts, of course; the winter solstice was yesterday - the sun doesn't tarry...