Spicer’s apology, as heartfelt as it may be, doesn’t entirely resolve the issue. He is enmeshed in an Administration in which designations of us and them, our people and not our people, the good ones and the bad ones, provide a rubric for almost every policy. For Spicer to revert, as a default, to such …
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Poet obnoxiōsus
Amy Davidson at the New Yorker comments on the hidden poetry in SCOTUS judge Antonin Scalia’s dissents and suggests a Scalia poetry game: And now a proposal for a game. The poem above uses all of Scalia’s italicized words strung together in order, with line breaks and punctuation. But could there have been a more …
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