On this mixtape it's the rookies who provide earnest verses about ghetto misery and the veteran who sounds brash and heedless, delivering one taunt after another.
Usually, say fraud experts, suckers eventually are asked to provide "earnest money" that, once sent, is never seen again.
"When making an offer on a home, the sellers will usually ask that the buyer provide earnest money," said Nicole Davis, a financial adviser and the founder of Reliance Financial Services in St .Louis, Missouri.
It's ironic, then, that Tyler Glenn is now an icon for gay Mormonism, despite having radically turned away from the church's teachings but he is still quick to provide earnest words of encouragement to his former community.
The filmmakers -- Daniel Junge, director, and Donna Dewey and Henry Ansbacher, producers -- provide an earnest look at students whose lives include sweat lodges, hip-hop and some grown-up understanding of the hostile world beyond home.
But in so doing, they are violating their mission of providing the most earnest and accurate assessment of a country's default risk at any given time.
Keynes came from the heart of a Cambridge tradition (later continued in that other Cambridge in Massachusetts) that saw economics as a humane discipline or moral science, providing tools for earnest attempts to do good in the world.
He does, however, have one earnest convention agenda, provided he wangles sufficient access: "We want to find out actual information about Republicans.
But it was the X Challenge that provided the incentive to explore the idea in earnest.
