The second involves actually recording new material, and seems infinitely tricky, fraught with the issues: not clumsily besmirching your own legacy, making music that identifiably fits with your back catalogue without merely appearing to pastiche past glories.
But merely appearing on DCist wasn't enough to merit that -- I had to work very diligently at it.
On Thursday, the Washington Post conservative blogger Jen Rubin went so far as to suggest that merely appearing before the ADC was problematic for Hagel's nomination.
"All that once was directly lived has become mere representation," he argued, describing the trajectory of human civilization in terms of "the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing".
Such laws that target individuals for merely appearing to be an immigrant (code for Hispanic or other racial and ethnic minorities), will inevitably lead to targeting individuals who do not appear to be "American".
Because you can do more harm than good by executing certain maneuvers on a dog that doesn't need them, it is important to be as certain as possible that the dog is actually choking and in danger, rather than merely appearing to choke.
