Getting pally with ally.(Ally McBeal television program)

National Review | February 13, 2006| | Copyright

'THOU shalt not follow a multitude to do evil," commanded Moses very wisely. The true-born straggler ("one that is separated by wandering off in some irregular manner from others"--Webster's Third) finds no difficulty in cleaving to this injunction. We stragglers are constitutionally averse to following a multitude to do anything, whether evil, good, or morally neutral.

While this reflexive contrariety preserves the straggler from many pitfalls, it does create minor problems, nowhere more so than in his appreciation of popular culture. I was, for example, slow to ...

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