He's making an argument related to the one Carl Wilson recently made in his smart Slate piece, The Problem With "Country for People Who Don't Like Country", in which he asserted: "Liking only the 'right' (ie, left) kind of country music … is a cultural expression of the estrangement that manifests itself in red and blue states on the political map".
This may seem unacceptable to those who assert, like Sarkozy, that satire is an "ancient French tradition".
It is contentious – a hand grenade, really – because in it she asserts, like an Old Testament maven from Tennessee, that being gay is a "choice", it is not innate and no one is, in Lady Gaga's words, "Born This Way".
Elwood and Patashik (1993) add another dimension when they blithely asserted that waste, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
The Met has released scant information about the elaborate production Mr. Lepage is planning, though in a recent interview Mr. Gelb asserted that, like Mr. Schenk, Mr. Lepage is a "great storyteller".
Essentialists and Emergentists alike have often, purely on the basis of intuition, asserted that sentences like John gave Mary a kiss are grammatical but sentences like John gave a kiss to Mary are not.
Mr. Bush, for example, recently asserted that Mr. Gore "likes Hillary-Care," adding, "He wants to nationalize the health care system of America".
In a third-person flourish moments later, Trump asserted that "If Putin likes Donald Trump, guess what, folks?
Now, he asserted, companies like Westland/Hallmark buy feeble cows on the assumption they can make it through a lax inspection.
If the first year of the job, as Justice Souter — a nonentity in his early days on the Court — once asserted, is like "walking into a tidal wave," Sotomayor is bodysurfing.
