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Letters on Masks and Black Lives
The Majesty of the Law
“The judge, Jeffrey Chalmers, was a big man in every sense of the word. He was three-hundred pounds, but tall and muscular, about six and a half feet, and he had bushy eyebrows, and a fierce mustache. When he had his robe on, and was up behind that mahogany bench, he was visibly formidable. Not all the defendants who came before him would plead guilty, but all of them wanted to.”
The Binariest of Choices
Introduction: Last Friday when I left the office to head home, I was greeted out on the sidewalk by a liberal lady (who would self-identify as an evangelical, if that helps, which it shouldn’t) who was masked up, carrying a poster that chided Christ Church for having held a joint service last Sunday. Our problem …
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Book of the Month/July 2020
Happy Fourth of July, and sorry this book-of-the-month selection is a few days late. May all your fireworks go off vertically, and not horizontally. May you and your household come to grasp how bad the House of Hanover was to the cause of liberty, and how good they were compared to our present regime. As …
A Formidable Tribunal Indeed
“He had felt as though he were going up before an implacable and terrible feminine tribunal. In his imagination, he was going to walk up to a table, with her standing behind it, a stern and beautiful expression on her face. He was going to spread all his innards out on the table before her, and he was then going to give her a huge wooden mallet, and she would do as she pleased. Given the high insult his declaration of love would naturally be to someone as noble as she was, he was confident that she would wield that heavy mallet with a will. And yet he loved her still.”
Another James O’Keefe Still Shot
Misjudging Reactions
“He was the kind of man who thought that he never gave offense because people liked him enough to forgive him for a great deal.”
En Garde
“While he was coming up the head table, she had decided, firmly and with all the resolve she had that she would be courteous, friendly, and tart . . . She felt as though she were on the verge of a fencing match, and she had been flexing her rapier.”
Another Little Contretemps
Introduction: If real trials were tornadoes, couple of dust devils appeared here in Moscow yesterday. I do not really want to dignify them by making you think that I think they were tornadoes, but I do maintain that they were some swirly things that deserve some comment. That Bathroom Ad: So perhaps you recall that …
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Dignified Eyesores
“Taking one thing with another, the line-up of the head table, with the notable exception of Savannah, was a well-groomed collection of dignified eyesores. Savannah kind of stood out and a number of people had already decided instinctively where they would be looking during the course of the speeches and toasts.”