So good that I wanted to sit down and not do anymore work. There was this stale taste in my mouth and I wanted another one. The scientists in attendance allowed that I had had enough for one day and promised to take me off to the woods that weekend and let me drink all I could. But, I'm saving that story for my next sermon. . . So wrote the angry writer in the local scandal sheet letters column.
Democracy is an ugly thing.
It's how Bill Clinton got to be Governor of Arkansas. Some years ago, I attended an election forum in the mistaken belief that I should be an informed voter. In the race for coroner was a Medical Examiner, a Forensic Pathologist, and an Emergency Medical Technician. The EMT was a local boy. The other guys were cannon fodder with Ph.D.'s and not one chance in hell.