Impeachment involves separating the person from the office.
L’etat, c’est moi is not a great way to think about the office of the presidency.
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pope formosus was exhumed by one of his successors and put on trial, found guilty, and had his papacy ruled null and void. i want to say that happened in the early to mid 800s.
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A bit of good news. Rep. “Brown terrorists bad, white terrorists good” won’t be a plague on the House for much longer.
[more “inspiring” than “inspired” due to his over-long time in office, but he fits in the topic]
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Took them long enough. Dude has been making cash on it for years.
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I’ve also got an “inspiring” rather than “inspired”:
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2019/10/16/president-obama-was-right-and-justice-alito-was-wrong/
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Hence the Shroud of Turin.
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clerisy? Is this some sort of NR in joke-- an attempt to revive " Don’t let THEM immanentize the Eschaton?
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It’s the word that bunch wishes the Know-Nothings were more familiar with than “the elites”, carrying as it does a clear specification that said coastal elites are evil not because they’re wealthy but because they have book larnin’.
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OED says
" This word belongs in Frequency Band 3. Band 3 contains words which occur between 0.01 and 0.1 times per million words in typical modern English usage. These words are not commonly found in general text types like novels and newspapers, but at the same they are not overly opaque or obscure. Nouns include ebullition and merengue , and examples of adjectives are amortizable, prelapsarian, contumacious, agglutinative, quantized, argentiferous …"
- Learned men as a body, scholars.
a 1834 S. T. Coleridge Literary Remains (1836) I. 238 After the Revolution…a learned body, or clerisy, as such, gradually disappeared.
a 1834 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk (1836) 160 The clerisy of a nation, that is, its learned men, whether poets, or philosophers, or scholars.
1841–4 R. W. Emerson Manners in Ess. (1858) II. 421 The artist, the scholar, and in general the clerisy.
- It has also been used for clericism , clericity .
1858 Times 28 Aug. 10/5 The restrictions of clerisy and celibacy.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 336 A layman, alike indifferent to clerisy and heresy.
Judging by the OED’s definitions, the use of clerisy to refer to university professors in general seems a stretch. (Naively, I would have thought it have the same sort of connotation as philologist-- a tweedy expert on long dead languages who considers himself to be above practical considerations like science…)
It does remind me of the tendency in some conservative circles to fawn over the “constitutional scholar”, without recognizing that Obama slots neatly in. I first became irritated by this usage around the time of the Malheur incident
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It probably fell out of usage because this became confusing. It would be fun to trolley Lowry with a letter to the editor saying “why do you hate pastors and other men of God?”
Stretching is all that an actual affluent coastal elite like Lowry can do to vilify other affluent coastal elites. And while he and others in movement conservatism reserve a lot of antipathy for left-leaning academics, he’s also including liberal and progressive writers, artists, actors, journalists, techies, etc. – whether or not they’re actually neoliberal globalism’s winners in terms of economics.
It’s still a dangerous populist game for Lowry and the NR crew to be playing, given their own educations and the places they choose to live, and given that the magazine’s founder always acted and sounded like Thurston Howell III on a bad day. But it’s an old habit that American conservatives can’t kick:
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Exactly. Tell us more about the love for King’s Irish heritage that made him a prominent apologist for IRA terrorists and thugs, Chuck.
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“The unicorn was the first to go. Dressed in an inflatable purple pony suit with a golden horn, protester Forrest Gilmore was removed from the market by two police officers, each gripping one of his purple hooves.”
Why do cops hate unicorns so much?
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Freeze Peach.
Once again:
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He should have been gone long ago, but this is fine.
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Fare the well drunk uncle of Canada.
Fabricland profits will be down sharply though.
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It still won’t be worth the drive to Acton.
(National Post, part of Postmedia, is now American-owned, tap-dancing over laws against that, and their dictated editorial policy will probably be full of frothy Freeze Peach defences of Cherry.)
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Is it really so easy now? JFC
(Jason beat me to it! oh wellz!)
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