Like you, I'll do anything
to avoid one of our Satur-
day commute postings, but
I was prepared to go ahead
with a blithely nautical
entry, albeit under penal-
ty of enlistment. We late-
ly saw a reader encouraging
the page to continue our
also to invent a few lines;
and if one can't say some-
thing nice about a sailor,
it would smack of tarring
him with the brush we re-
serve for his uses.
What I think we all like a-
bout our modern writers is
that they don't make us re-
member very far back. This
defies Fitzgerald's Law of
Second Chances, but it ex-
plains our wars to a T, not
to mention our zombies of
Presidential aspirations.
One could go on in this
vein, but to deny readers
Collins' tracking of such
an aspirant with his may-
onnaise jar, groveling
for a flag to wrap him-
self in in Iowa, would
contradict the spirit of
the Saturday commute.
Is there still a Scott
Walker, we must ask; and
if so, why?
Gail Collins
Rush to Judgment
The New York Times
22 May 2015©
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