“Can such a man, so desperate, still boast
he can save his life from the flashing bolts of god?”

Many years ago when I worked for the federal government, I was at a convention staffing a booth. Two people came up to me on separate occasions, and said more or less the same thing. If they accuse somebody, then the accused has to prove their innocence. It boggled my mind.

This reminds me of Televangelist economics.

Yes, that’s it!! I misremembered the content, but got the point

I’d embrace epidemic humility. It reminds me of a passage from the preface to The Order of Things. Foucault observes that a Chinese encyclopedia lists the categories of things described in the encyclopedia and ends with “and all those things not contained in this book.” In that way, it is scientific

This is just another attempt to humiliate us before they make us illegal again.

As an avid reader of H. L. Mencken, I approve of this insight.

Bleeding from who-knows-where!!