Two longtime readers have written in gently complaining that they don’t come to this space for blogospheric mud-wrestling. Those two gentle missives, added to Mike O’Hare’s indirect rebuke, amount to a torrent of protest by my standards.
Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent. Not being a Christian, I don’t ordinarily observe that season of self-denial, but for the next forty days I will not so much as mention that Kentucky’s southern neighbor has a law school.