February 25, 2018

Doug Hyde

The Sun Sentinel

Mr. Hyde,

Are you following the path well-trod by Mike Mayo? He went from telling me who won the God Damn game to why everything wrong with the world is caused by “deplorables” being deplorable long before deplorable became a modern American Liberal dog whistle to telling me where I can get non-canine Korean chow with senior citizen discounts?

If so, good luck.

I have clear memories of my father, the legendary Judge Smith, reading the 2 Arthurs to me on Sundays long ago.

Arthur Daley, a Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote in the sports section of the New York Times.

Arthur Krock, a Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote Op-Ed columns on DC in the New York Times.

Perhaps not a Chinese wall of separation but neither the former nor the latter were  known to be envious of desk swapping.

[I am enjoined morally from mentioning the New York Times and Pulitzer Prizes without mentioning Walter Duranty. One of the more interesting “what ifs” is what the Times would have done if the winner of the same Pulitzer Prize 2 years later as Duranty had been as involved with his capitol’s secret police as he had been.]

Here’s a basic rule. It is a testament to Ockham’s Razor. [Ockham’s Razor? Send a SASE. Tell me who won the God Damn game. Tell me who was “chaired through the market-place”. Tell me who wasn’t. [You better send a big SASE]

One sentence in particular is worthy of being “mentioned in dispatches”.

“You saw what happened when four Dolphin players

took a knee during the national anthem in

protest of blacks being shot by police.”

The Sun Sentinel

Today

You

Would I be branded with the new Scarlet Letter, said letter being “R”, to signify the racism that all White folk are born with, if I were to tweek your sentence thus?

“You saw what happened when four Dolphin players

took a knee during the national anthem in

protest of police being shot by blacks.”

The Sun Sentinel – not

Today

Me

Am I back to using the Trivium to construct universals from particulars? You bet. [Send a really big SASE]

The last time I wrote to you was during the run-up to Super Bowl XXX1X. You spent 2 weeks kvetching and kvelling about the host city. You said it was just past Nowheresville, this side of Palookaville. My advice was simple: Don’t go

Speaking of racial things in general and racial genocide in particular, did you know that 6% of the population has been active participants in 35% to 40% of the abortions in this country since 1973? Who knows how many Ben Carsons or Maxine Waters have gone down the abattoir’s drain? Would you believe that Thurgood Marshall wrote that abortion was good for Black folk because they did not have to face the horror, the horror of growing up in a racist society?

Since modern American Liberals constantly and confusingly conflate correlation and causality I wonder where the outrage is at that inconvenient truth?

And, by the way, who did win the God Damn game?

Kevin Smith

PS – My last gun fight was on June 3, 1993. The first police officer was murdered while the second one was grievously wounded. I saved his life. He danced at my daughter’s wedding 2 & ½ years later. And yes, the shooter was a Black man. Your column today has earned you a significant laurel. You are hereby named

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