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Indeed, we would welcome our day in a real court with the real evidence, because then this footage would provide us with our alibi and serve as a witness to the massacre.

David Mamet writes that "We confuse 'I like it' with 'It is very realistic.' If we like it we say, 'Yes, that's very true.'" So truth becomes our alibi, our defence for that which pleases us.

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To the English critic Cyril Connolly, whom Galassi quotes, Leopardi was a "Grand Inquisitor" determined to "break down our alibis of health and happiness".

"And that further got reinforced when we started discussing our alibis or the reasons that we would give to other teams for why I needed to be positioned where I was.

However flawed his 2016 opponent, however toxic James Comey's interventions, however wicked Putin and his Russians, however impressive our alibis, however bad our luck, however absurd our Electoral College, the sum of all our good and intelligent works did not bar him from power.

And let's not leave out the defense attorneys who failed to exercise due diligence when representing the innocent -- the ones who did no investigation into our alibis or innocence claims, causing us to spend years in prison until (if we're lucky) another lawyer comes along to clean up their mess.

"It's like an alibi," our guide explained.

Get your alibi in early".

Better hope your alibi is as well documented as his.

Our century's professional expectation that we be constantly online provides an alibi for our indulgences.

"It's our position that the alibi issue all by itself is an issue strong enough to win a reversal of Adnan's conviction," Brown said.

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