Sir William Gilbert https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:07:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg Sir William Gilbert https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 Much Ado Over Not Very Much https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/12/much-ado-over-not-very-much/ Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:05:50 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=12956 Written by William Murchison

A history professor I once studied under tended to offer weary responses to technical and highly dispensable questions of the sort that arise in weary seminars. To wit: “But what’s that got to do with the price of eggs?” Or, more pointedly sometimes, “the price of eggs in Arkansas?”

I thought of this aptly characterized boredom threshold as I watched the impeachment — um — hearings on Monday. Hearings? Snorings seems more to the point: a canopy of mingled objections and arguments and the preening of elected officials who know well enough they are on television.… Continue Reading

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