Parenting is a terrifying prospect if we allow ourselves to consider human fragility, and my son is a declaration of just how fragile — and just how resilient — humans are.
If Sicha is one of the most esteemed documentarians of the Internet's eternal present, his first book, "Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City," is his treatise on time, a declaration of just how quickly the present can seem like the past.
Ironically though, to me it shows the ignorance of reporters and not of the masses they cover, for Christians doubting whether fellow Christians are truly Christians is one of the oldest parlor games in Christendom and the notion that all Christians are supposed to accept a fellow Christian's declaration of faith, just because is simply ludicrous.
The panelist may indeed be racist, but his declaration of it just plays like a bid for attention.
We just celebrated the 4th of July, the 240th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, just two days before these shootings started.
She didn't reply to his declaration of love, just reached over and took his hand and put it back on her stomach.
The pursuit of happiness, one of the inalienable rights of man laid out by America's forefathers in the Declaration of Independence, just got much happier for bartenders in the state of Utah.
The word "entitle" appears in the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence (just as another dread word, "welfare," appears in the first sentence of the Constitution), but the present-day uses of its derivatives are, to put it mildly, problematic.
King read from his prepared text for most of his speech, which relied on the Bible, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence — just as President John F. Kennedy had a few months earlier, when he called for civil rights legislation in a nationally televised address: "We are confronted primarily with a moral issue.
From a battlefield where thousands of Americans had killed each other just four and a half months earlier, Lincoln called upon the nation to fulfill the promises of freedom and equality for all, made by the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence just 87 years earlier.
Until last week's ruling, New Jersey was one of only 4 states that limited that declaration to just four choices while prohibiting alternative or third party declarations.
