WE NON-academic economists sometimes forget that other economics bloggers have to do real professing, in real lecture halls.
Parades featuring elaborate floats flanked by thousands of pounding drummers and twirling dancers, is the culmination of the festivities - though the real action, Cariocas profess, is at the wild parties about town.
In fact, they now have Tea Party pressure from the extreme Right that is making their job even harder and making them even less effective at what they profess (real fiscal responsibility) and better at what they actually do (dismantling our social safety net and serving the corporatocracy).
Mantle has said that during his role as the doctor he received a lot of fan mail, some of which were medically related and asking for his advice, believing him to be a real doctor, but professed that he couldn't even stand the sight of real blood.
Yet almost nothing connects these characters — who have been played by actresses including Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, Scarlett Johansson and Penélope Cruz — except that they have all sprung from the mind of the same filmmaker, one who professes no real insight into how he writes and casts his female characters but remains confident that he still knows how to create them.
We're seeing, anecdotally at least, young men professing how "real girls" just don't live up to the girls in porn, while the young women themselves express frustration at being constantly expected to behave like shaven performing sex monkeys with no gag reflex.
Many believe that there is an orchestrated conspiracy to keep Harry and Louis in the closet, and that Eleanor, Louis' professed real-life girlfriend, is his "beard," provided by the record label to make him appear straight.
Relationships that profess to be real, trusting and intimate are hard work, often messy, but theoretically worth it.
By reminding everyone of a real military agreement, you can profess innocence while having military "exercises" overstepping their bounds.
A real grownup, something that Mackey professes to be now, understands that life is never black and white.
