Or they were a cynical con: something with which "to sell trousers", as McLaren said in 1989; a "carefully planned exercise to embezzle as much money as possible out of the music industry", as Jon Savage characterises McLaren's core theme in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; "cash from chaos" as the movie repeatedly puts it.
AUDIENCE: Could you write MAP using for-each, so that you did some sort of cons or something to build the List back up?
And yes, you should also work towards the ability to wait 24 hours — one single day — before pondering or verbalizing the cons against something.
Chilli con carne (something warm, a distant maternal voice told me, would be cheering).
A few hours after his best friend on the team was traded, Lester Conner found something to smile about tonight.
The grip that turns a pair of Joy-Con into something that resembles a standard controller might look a bit silly - and canine - but it nestles snugly in the hand.
I think our readers are pretty savvy, so they won't get conned on something like cables, but the average window shopper or out-of-touch TV buyer might easily get upsold to a hundred dollar purchase they don't need.
If you want a nice antidote to that time the Washington Post decided to treat the suicides of gay teenagers as a matter that had two equally valid pro- and con- positions (something that Dan Savage, tasked with being the side that was against teenagers being hounded to the brink of suicide by homophobes, was not too happy about), let's hear from the Washington Post's own Jonathan Capeheart.
If you've ever weighed up the pros and cons of doing something, you're treading in his footsteps.
While we might weigh the pros and cons of doing something new, we far less often consider the pros and cons of not doing that thing.
And as the national party ponders its own list of pros and cons, there is something else it will need to remember.
