To Ermanno Signorelli
for this letter sent to the Los Angeles Times:

        To the editor: Not long ago, Americans learned that the cause of all forms of racial unrest is fully the responsibility of a red, white and blue flag that flew near the capitol of South Carolina. (“S.C. Confederate flag to come down, but fight isn't over,” July 10) Thank heavens it is being removed. Within a few days, certainly less than a few weeks, all our nation's racial problems should now come to an end. Bless you, South Carolina Legislature.

To Eric Beinhocker
for his column on the Bloomberg blog pointing out that a Greek abandonment of the euro for the drachma does not have to be the chaotic mess that grown men and women are wringing their hands over. A euro-to-drachma transition managed by the EU, carefully planned as a step-by-step process, would lead to the least painful outcome (for both sides) of the Greek crisis, said Beinhocker

To Judge Eduardo C. Robreno
for releasing sealed testimony in which Bill Cosby admitted to drugging women for sex, on the grounds that Cosby has positioned himself as a “public moralist”.

        This case, however, is not about [Cosby’s] status as a public person by virtue of the exercise of his trade as a televised or comedic personality. Rather, [Cosby] has donned the mantle of public moralist and mounted the proverbial electronic or print soap box to volunteer his views on, among other things, childrearing, family life, education, and crime. . . He has voluntarily narrowed the zone of privacy that he is entitled to claim.”

To Assunta Buonfiglio
for refusing to leave Naples to join her ISIS jihadist daughters in Syria until she was promised that ISIS would give her a washing machine.