Congress shall make no law…abridging…the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress…
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Do we stop caring after the miners are free?
At last men came to set me free; I ask’d not why, and reck’d not where; It was at length…
Continue reading →How To Save Venice
An international shouting match is underway over the fate of the city everyone loves but no one wants to live…
Continue reading →Bring Out Your Dead (to Vote)
An Irishman’s home is his coffin. – James Joyce, Ulysses The dead use a graveyard forever. – Nathan Englander, The…
Continue reading →The French Problem
Is this a Jewish joke or a Gypsy joke? What do you get when a Jew and a Gypsy go…
Continue reading →Thank God for Koran Burnings
No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have searched the records for years, and…
Continue reading →Catalonia Bullfighting Ban: Purely Political and Totally Impractical
At the end of the film Little Caesar, the gangster Enrico Bandello, played by Edward G. Robinson, is shot down…
Continue reading →Failure to Excommunicate
The Catholic Church raised me. The Immaculate Heart nuns who supervised my education from the age of six through thirteen…
Continue reading →Prince Charles Saves Chelsea Barracks
Something happened to British architects after the Second World War. Rugged Howard Roarke-like geniuses and obscure mediocrities alike shared an…
Continue reading →The New Wild West Economy
The financial geniuses who caused, yet failed to predict, the world’s financial collapse are not doing much yet to avoid…
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