Years ago, some of these same issues drove my father to sit down with me to have a conversation – which is no doubt familiar to many of you – about how as a young black man I should interact with the police, what to say, and how to conduct myself if I was ever stopped or confronted in a way I thought was unwarranted.
Nobody in the N.F.L. is worrying about Manning anymore, except for the more familiar concern about how to stop him.
But it's also a very old familiar story – about how we reassess people when it's too late.
The Diamond Jubilee has prompted a slew of new royal biographies, making familiar points about how the monarchy has shrewdly adapted to modern mores.
I'd just add that Ryan repeats the familiar line about how we have vast income mobility, so that the picture given by static inequality comparisons is misleading.
Along with fame and celebrity, allegations about doping have surrounded Armstrong's now familiar story about how he conquered cycling after conquering cancer.
It tells a familiar tale about how the liberties that Britons now enjoy would not exist without the sacrifices that earlier generations made.
Things like faltering when they could have and should have won, creating more doubts about themselves and uttering that familiar refrain about how there are a lot of games left in the season.
The few people who have already read them cover to cover report that, in addition to the familiar stuff about how awful his relationship with Gordon Brown was, Mr Blair admits to being manipulative and to having a developed sense of his own destiny.
If only there was a familiar catchphrase about how little is known by his Game of Thrones character … For a brief window, it seemed as if men had broken through and achieved the equality they had dreamed of for so long.
