“Stephanie nodded. Good to meet you, she seemed to indicate. She was cool and aloof, but still friendly. Like a sunbeam shining down on the upper slopes of a beautiful glacier.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 42
No Quarter November: Soundtrack
I know, I know. A number of you believe that I must have been holding back or something last November. I had said that it was going to be “no quarter November,” but if it really had been, then how would it have been possible for 2020 to go the way it has gone? One …
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The High and Lofty Office of Ratfink
Credit: Hannah Grieser Our Moscow City Council recently extended their masking order until October, thus demonstrating that they do not at all understand who they have become in the story. And then, to compound their lack of self-awareness woes, they then took out an ad in the paper encouraging citizens to snitch on Anybody They …
They Liked It, In Other Words
“The other members of his team could take a great deal of this. They were eating it out of the carton with a spoon.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 35
Sea Lion, Esq.
“The other attorneys looked at him expectantly, like two rows of sea lions on either side of the table waiting for the trainer to throw a fish over the Plexiglass.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 34
Aphorisms on Liberty
Say it with aphorisms. Free men will fight for their liberty, but slaves will not. So if a slave fights, he is already free. Liberty is not porn and pot. Liberty is much praised and rarely treasured. True liberty is greatly praised, and not at all understood. When Mammon is the master, the people are …
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Which Is To Say, Not Radical
“Here, in the Colorado of the present day, he was about as radical as a cow eating the cabbage.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 33
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Letter to the Editor: I received an e-mail from our congressman yesterday, a Republican, btw: According to local health officials, the continued use of face masks in public and sustained ...
The Prince of Duddy
“A half hour later, after he had been triumphing in his imagination over all kinds of throwbacks and troglodytes for quite an enjoyable session of daydreaming, he had remembered the duddiness of Ted. In fact, all the younger attorneys there, who were as woke as midmorning, used to call him the Sugar Duddy.”
Ride, Sally, Ride, p. 31