But when I read Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure, a recent book by LA Times entertainment reporter Amy Kaufman, I learned the franchise's inner workings were far darker than I had even assumed, and I was shocked by the sheer breadth of the show's deceptions.
Of course, no one would encourage today's children to chase butterflies as I did, even assuming that any of them would want to.
Without knowing the whole background, I'll even assume for purposes of argument that the UC Davis authorities had legitimate reason to clear protestors from an area of campus -- and that if protestors wanted to stage a civil-disobedience resistance to that effort, they should have been prepared for the consequence of civil disobedience, which is arrest.
I even basically assume that all of Congress' summer interns are culled from the next great class of clying a-holes that are currently coming up through high school.
I can't even assume to know my own hidden motives, but I prefer to believe that I'm arguing against the ugliness of lop-sided thinking and in defence of balance which, as the ancient Chinese believed, is the key to health in all things.
Oh my goodness, I didn't even assume when being offered something that I would be one of the central storytellers.
I don't even assume the worst of educated people who don't share my view (the worst in this case being a conviction that they're outright bigots).
"I don't want to assume that I'm the doctor and that by definition I'm right, but we cannot even assume that I need to make a huge effort to make the patient understand that he or she is wrong because until proven otherwise, I am the doctor.
Even assuming that I do get the spam email newsletter in my inbox, then my human filter does the rest and just deletes it.
But even assuming so, I find it even harder to understand how an increased KATP channel activity produces a chronic membrane depolarization whereas the opposite would be expected.
But even assuming so, I find it even harder to understand how an increased K ATP channel activity produces a chronic membrane depolarization whereas the opposite would be expected.
