ALBANY — Legislative leaders and the Paterson administration said Sunday night that it was possible they could complete the state budget close to Monday's midnight deadline, a task that seemed all but unattainable just hours earlier.
For most people, and most homes, that's simply unattainable.
The rise of the lifestyle brand then, is a way for the celebrity to take back control, "to use the wider lens of social media to 'curate' that messiness back into something on brand, seemingly much more informal and 'real' but often just as unattainable".
I wanted to be Joey Lauren Adams, singing some throaty rendition of a song I wrote about passion and pain, I wanted to jump off the stage and run to that hot blonde in the tight white shirt, grab her face and kiss her while Ben Affleck looks on shocked, realizing just how unattainable I am, just how gay I am.
In fact, the overreaction to criticism harms our political discourse, damages the effort to combat real anti-Semitism, and because it serves to enable destructive Israeli policies, it makes a just peace a near unattainable goal.
While the anthem grants women the permission to kiss each other for fun, it leaves those of us who identify on the LGBTQ spectrum barking up the wrong tree, chasing after the unattainable girls who just wanna have fun.
-- say they can't succeed at their careers, get a cool boyfriend, hike to the top of a mountain, insert whatever mundane-yet-seemingly-unattainable goal here just because they don't look like fashion models.
Just when Gleneagles looked like an unattainable dream, those two high-profile victories secured an automatic return to the European side.
But unlike areas to the north and south in the Fourth District, where high-voltage transmission lines are already in place to ship the energy out, Cheyenne Wells's wind-powered future is just a frustrating, and, for now, unattainable vision.
Life balance is an unattainable ideal, and we just waste untold energy and brainpower and creativity and optimism trying to chase it -- or to at least appear as though we've nailed it.
