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Jack Mallory
"Gotta hate rich folk." Putting words in my mouth again, Nora? No, just an intense dislike for those who use their wealth and power to disadvantage others. We can all think of numerous examples:
The well-to-do who use their money to cheat their kids into colleges in ways that regular folks can't--and decent folks wouldn't. Or people who create phony degree mills to defraud students.
Families and others who control corporations that knowingly profit from the production and sale of addictive and deadly substances like tobacco or opioids. And lawyers who specialize in defending these people.
Someone who would take advantage of parental wealth to avoid military service and put someone else at risk instead--and then heap scorn on those who put themselves in harm's way and suffered enormously as a result.
After you've read the book, got your slime balls straight, you'll have seen many similar wealthy, powerful, loathsome folks. But you do have your slime balls confused. There has been no decision, by judge or jury, in the Weinstein case. The accusations of two predatory sexual assaults, commiting a criminal sexual act, and two rapes won't even come to trial until next year. What are you talking about, Nora?
No need to reiterate my desire to see an end to the use of our military for undefined and unwinnable causes. Having made commitments to our Kurdish allies, though, it's a tragic shame to simply abandon them as we did the Hungarians, Cubans, Montagnards, and Hmong. With this administration it's too much to hope that we would offer immigrant or refugee status as we did in other situations.
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