Friday, May 16, 2025

“Nobody expects a Spanish Inquisition!”

Mine is the generation that faithfully watched every episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. Indeed, the most faithful among us could easily exchange key quotations in the course of just about any conversation. Ironically, those fond memories were piqued this morning by an article by Jessica Flores for the San Francisco Chronicle given the headline “Trump appoints S.F. archbishop to new Religious Liberty Commission.” As I began to work my way through this article, it did not take me long to free-associate with the Monty Python quote that I selected for the above headline! One thing about such quotations is that they inevitably trigger free associations. The one that was just triggered comes from Will Rogers:

With Congress, every time they make a joke, it's a law, and every time they make a law, it's a joke.

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