Posner calls instead for a renewed commitment to legal realism, whereby a good judge gathers facts, carefully considers context, and comes to a sensible conclusion that avoids inflicting collateral damage on other areas of the law.
She goes back to Ancient Greece, to Rome, to early Christianity and the Renaissance to place swearing in an historical context, and comes up to date with film, broadcasting and rap, distinguishing throughout between Oaths and Obscenities.
But even though I fall neatly into the feminist camp, I think your original joke is hilarious -- within context, and coming from a comedian whose philosophy I identify with.
17 Gut feeling has been described as an intuitive feeling that results from a rapid, unconscious process that is context specific and comes with experience.
The brothers' saga, as related by their attorneys and military records, could transpire only in the context of Guantanamo Bay and comes at a critical juncture for the Obama administration, which is struggling to meet a Jan . 22deadline to shutter the 223-detainee prison.
And that's where context and craft come into focus.
The truly horrific moments have all been placed in context, heavily foreshadowed and coming organically out of the plot (whether you agree with the decisions that lead to those moments is, of course, a matter of personal taste and choice).
The subtext and context that comes from sitting together in an office is missing, and, without even thinking about it, it can be easy to fill these gaps with fear or resentment.
What you need to know is that a clutch of artists, mostly British, have responded to the past few years of sound and social context and software advancements and come up with material that is strongly linked.
The participants of the 2008 ABJS Carl T. Brighton Workshop listened to the perspectives of different stakeholders in the context of workshop presentations and came together to address Dr. Brighton's questions "Where are we now?" and "Where do we need to go?", as detailed above.
What makes it far more combustible is the timing and the context: it comes just as Pakistan is transfixed by a march organised by a populist cleric, Tahir-ul Qadri, who is now encamped in Islamabad with some 60,000 supporters.
