And then the judges announced the decision, and in Ring magazine thereafter was one of the photos taken before the decision, and the caption had Ortiz saying he was just so excited when the judges announced he'd won.

So boxing is fixed. I never forgot that. I thought as a kid it was wrestling only. Then I quite naturally doubted Santa ...

Does anybody know what I'm talking about? Of the characters I name, maybe one is familiar.

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Them carpetbaggers wrote home, said, you know, I didn't have to pack no irony for the trip.

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William Faulkner wrote stories of the Satoris family, which was his family in real life. And his grandfather reportedly, just like Colonel Sartoris, killed two carpetbaggers in the attempt at registering freedmen to vote in antebellum Mississippi.

His comment on the riots in play in that era were taken up by James Baldwin, among others.

The irony is that he should be prominently displayed on the office wall of one scoring a Pulitzer for a book entitled Slavery By Another Name.

Is that better?

Sidenote: I really admired the chutzpah of William Buckley during the debate with Gore Vidal on teevee during the '68 campaign: "That's too convoluted to follow". Wonderful confidence, which says, if I don't understand it, then it cannot be understood.

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