As I look back on my career path, I realize that I have always paved my own way.
We have always paved the way for advancement and innovation (think: Google searches, iPhones, freeways, blue jeans, the pill, and medical marijuana).
But La Défense, begun during the presidency of Charles de Gaulle in the late 1950s and built just west of Paris by bulldozing slums and paving over farmland, has always worked better in architectural theory than in anthropological practice.
Advertising has always been about the search for perfect targeting data, paving the way for the annihilating power of Google and Facebook.
The reason so many black comedians have reacted against the man who arguably paved the way for them is that Cosby has always been the archetypal conservative, with a small c.
It may have helped pave the way for other acne devices, but its efficacy has always been questioned.
"Tonight, we turn the page," he added, arguing that the economic recovery should pave the way "recapture the sense of common purpose that has always propelled America forward".
Litigation has always been an American obsession and never more since the admission of cameras into courtrooms paved the way for Court TV, a channel devoted to exploitation in the name of illumination.
If this ruling is not challenged and overthrown, Palmer vs. DC paves the way for the gun lobby to get what it has always wanted, namely, national concealed-carry without having to pass a federal law at all.
They're distillations of springtime -- Los Angeles as it must have always happened before we paved paradise.
