For reasons that will remain unstated and excuses that will not be offered, I have again fallen behind in my postings. Worried that Mulcahy's Miscellany (which apparently exists somewhere in the clouds) will soon be covered in cobwebs if I don't get to work, or that it may disappear if my host (google) detects no activity, I will offer here a sentiment that seems currently to sum things up.
Of late we have been saturated by a subject which did not exist a few years ago (Brexit) and snowed under by discussions about a politician (Jody Wilson-Rabould) about whom we did not know a few months ago. As well, there have been flurries of articles about various U.S. plutocrats, kleptocrats and promised reports. About all of these things all that needs to be said is:
Never Was So Little Known By So Many About So Much
Source:
Supposedly said by Churchill (what wasn't), the apercu above was applied recently to the subject of Brexit by Roger Cohen in the NYT, Mar. 3, 2019.
And on that same day in the same paper Frank Bruni used a phrase that is paraphrased here and which refers to the land just south of our border: the land of the fraud and the home of the knave.
Post Script:
For the earlier examples of pithy phrases in this blog see:
A Trumpian Apercu
and
Historical Censoriousness
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