The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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PUNCH LINES!

 

If I could go to Ireland

I'd stroll down by the sea;

And all the people would say:

Top a the mornin'

To me!

                             (me-2nd grade)

 

Daisy Kincaid: Well then give me your definition of grammar!

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BOUM!

 

 

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SE DEFENDENDO

Se Defendendo was a Latin phrase indicating acquittal for murder based upon self defense.

I had previously written of this wonder cache of original documents from the Old Bailey (duly archived and translated into modern printing with pictures of the original documents) dating from 1674 to 1913.

Using this site's search mechanisms I was only able to locate 10 cases out of hundreds upon hundreds of cases where a defendant was charged with 'murther' and was acquitted on the basis of Se Defendendo.

Ten cases over a 238 year span?

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THE REVEREND OSTEEN; HOW DOES IT FEEL?

I have never seen a more disingenuous personage on the American Stage than Joel Osteen.

Melodrama was an art a hundred years ago; hell a thousand years ago.

We are confronted in literature and on the screen with melodramatic charlatans forever.

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THE RAPE OF THE SABINES

THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN

 

 

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LIMBAUGH'S NEW AD CAMPAIGN!


A coffin shop in Macau

Media Matters informs that Limbaugh's radio show has lost 98 advertisers over the last few weeks.

Limbaugh insists that he has thousands of advertisers who request some advertising during his show hoping to reach his premium audiences.

And some of these new advertisers specifically focus on certain listeners that relate to the subject Limbaugh has been referring to prior to the ad breaks:

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