I'm not comfortable drawing a distinction between the personal and the professional.
In an earlier book, Smith found the Gulf War fought under George H. W. Bush to be uncalled for as well, and here he seems comfortable making a distinction that holds the September 11th attacks to have been "tragic, but scarcely catastrophic".
Schulzke's main claim is that actions in a virtual world are very different from actions in the real world, though a player may "kill" another player in a virtual world, that player is instantly back in the game and the two will almost certainly remain friends in the real world thus virtual violence is very different from real violence, a distinction gamers are comfortable with (Schulzke 2010).
That's one reason he gets labeled a conceptual artist: he is equally at home making paintings, photographs, prints, books, films, videos or performance art, and most comfortable of all blurring the distinctions among these categories — by taking found photographs, say, and painting colored dots over the faces.
So the distinction is between a comfortable, well-traveled road and an energizing if uncertain trail.
Perhaps it is a sign of how eternal Britons once considered their absurd class distinctions that they were comfortable with such mixing.
But he makes a distinction about incubators: "Anything raised in too comfortable an environment will likely fail when it hits the real world.
The question may be especially relevant now, with a clear-cut financial distinction between the (very wealthy) Republican and (merely comfortable) Democratic presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
But where grime, R&B and hip-hop willingly sold out to pop last year, 2010 promises to be the year that the genre distinctions will re-emerge, with artists who are perfectly comfortable just being themselves.
