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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, July 21, 2019

An Anecdote

This fall, a freshman went to the Lower School Dean of Students and asked permission to miss school for a few days.  She asked why.  He said there was a movie coming out about his grandfather and he wanted to go to the premier.

"What's the movie?"

"First Man."

"Isn't that about Neil Armstrong?"

<awkward silence>

"Yeah."

"Your grandfather was Neil Armstrong?"

"Yeah."

"Um, I think that would be fine."

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