The American Spectator

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Barry and John

6.2.08 @ 12:01AM

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DREAM ON
The tax free sanctuaries of our dreams
Are fewer than we thought. Now it seems
Pulpit pounding preachers have taken the stage
To teach us all about hate and rage.

Many Americans shudder and cringe
At this much cheered chewing-the-scenery binge.
The bellowing pastor is a well loved fellow.
A white priest tries to play Othello.

From friends like these should one run screaming
Or just remain above the fray smiling and dreaming?
-- Mimi Evans Winship

FLUMMOXED
Re: Jay D. Homnick's Rush Fiddles with Nero:

Flummery is an English dessert, like a light, whipped custard but pretty bland and tasteless and not filling at all. Hence the term used by Rush. I have had first hand experience of it because my mother often cooked it for me and my brothers when we were kids. We must have been poorer then than I knew at the time. I haven't heard about it for years, until I read this article, and it reminded me that it was probably the only dish my mother ever cooked that I never liked. My father often cooked us tripe, but that was a real atrocity and ranks far above flummery in terms of frightfulness. Tripe is a war crime, people should hang for serving it, they are heartless monsters preying on the weak and helpless. If somebody says you are talking a lot of tripe, he really has a problem with you. John McCain talks a lot of tripe.
-- Christopher Holland
Canberra, Australia

Did the "late John Wayne" arise from the grave to contact the author of the Nero Wolfe series? Let us hope that when he did that he wasn't yet "late."
-- Steven Dennis
Raleigh, North Carolina

Come on, Jay. Rush has Mr. Snerdley (James Golden).
-- Andy Weintraub

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