My favorite example is that of Anthony Ulasciewicz, the private eye-turned-bagman for the Watergate burglars and Richard Nixon.
In the early days of the cover-up, Ulasciewicz delivered the hush money to E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy.
Was it an initiation thing, like taking a new name when you become a monk?).
And it’s the change-maker that makes the story art and fixes it in the memory permanently.
On Monday, the Supreme Court told Ward to pound sand, which is not a difficult thing to do in Arizona.
There were indeed two justices who would’ve given Ward the protection she wanted, and one of them was Justice Clarence Thomas.
Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976. »