The messages, rendered in teenspeak, can be funny and blunt: for Real Talk, a technology-driven H.I.V. prevention program run by the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York, teenagers made a YouTube video, shouting a refrain from a rap song, "Sport Dat Raincoat," during which a girl carrying an umbrella is pelted with condoms.
The G.O.P.'s conspiratorial compulsion — the promise to its base that more hearings on Benghazi will expose lies, plots, and Huma Abedin-directed schemes — has blunted any real discussion about what Benghazi might teach us about American interventions.
For example, the annual economic costs of air and water pollution in China alone have been estimated at 3% and 6% of the GDP, respectively (World Bank 2007), effectively blunting in real terms anywhere from one-third to two-thirds of China's dramatic economic growth.
Blunt (not his real name) is a tricky character to pin down.
To be real blunt, if you call up and ask for an appointment, you don't get one".
Jon from New York City, was still more blunt: "Stare a real terrorist in the eyes in combat, and then tell me we don't need these measures".
A senior bureaucrat who used to teach at the civil service's national academy was blunt about the real problem the protesters faced.
"I wanted Father Mike's opinion — the real, blunt truth I asked from him — of whether we were doing well enough as a family to have a third," she said.
"The real blunt facts of the situation," said John Connolly, Aftra's national president, "are that the only core opposition to this consolidation is among a small layer of people who are essentially the political outs in the Screen Actors Guild.
During the evaluation of the "skin skull brain model", it was possible to show that injuries inflicted to this model are fully comparable to the morphology of equivalent real blunt forces injuries to humans.
It would be a blunt look at real Americans' stories, thoughts, and perspectives.
