Because the truth of the matter is that for those of us tapping on keyboards, stepping on jets, and paying our taxes to the military-industrial-complex, it hardly matters where we source our homespun homilies – they'll still be nought but a sticking plaster on the great festering sore of our Weirdness.
Then, stepping off the jet at Honolulu International Airport into a phalanx of waiting tour guides, their arms dripping with orchid, frangipani and jasmine leis, my defenses melted.
Dotcom led an extravagant playboy lifestyle and posted films online showing himself partying on yachts and stepping off private jets and personalised helicopters.
Sexton has not yet called HBO, where Parcells sought a job last year on its "Inside the NFL" program after stepping down as Jets coach.
Beautiful sleight of hand, preposterous stepping, jet-packed turns of pace and an overall inclination to play the game as if they actually liked it.
Cynics pipe down; as Trevi explained, the truth was that the surgery was entirely necessary after she took a bad fall … stepping off her private jet.
What's new, he says, is the Democrats' rejection of that ethos, and an inability to notice that class still matters; that stepping onto a private jet while fighting for energy conservation looks, well, less than consistent.
Airlines stepped up ordering jet engines this year, and GE Aircraft Engines won more than half the orders.
When the players stepped off the jet onto the Bethel tarmac, as flat as the tundra enveloping it, the late-afternoon temperature was 38 degrees below zero.
They echoed through the finales of the smart thriller "Homeland," the exquisite dark comedy "Enlightened," and the delirious melodrama "Revenge," in which Madeleine Stowe stepped onto a jet rigged to explode.
Although aides say that General Jaruzelski does not like to travel, he seemed to be happy to be on American soil, from the moment he stepped off his jet on Tuesday.
