The Convivial Society
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.” Wendell Berry, “To know the dark”
Welcome to the latest installment of the Convivial Society, especially to those of you who are relatively new around here. This is a full newsletter with a longish essay and much else. Also, this time around, I’m not addressing a crisis
de jour, and I hope that comes off as a feature rather than a bug. Over this past year, I have found myself writing about current events a good deal more than usual. This is fine, but I’m glad to return to another mode of reflection, one in which I feel myself more at home. One note about the title: I’d say that this is the question ultimately raised by the essay rather than one it answers definitively. Nonetheless, I hope you enjoy it. Oh, and while comments are usually open only for paying subscribers, I’ve decided to make them o
judge s words, behind the false testimony affidavits as well as misleading statements by district council. as a special master, the judge asked the attorney general as well as the attorneys for the plaintiffs what they thought and the attorney said the new probe would be improper. in a written brief to the court, nickles said it s critical the special master investigation not be a hunt throughout an entire department for potential wrongdoing. and the attorneys told the court it s clear that district council s actions, when combined with failed d.c. police leadership on the issues, were the driving forces behind the destruction and exfoliation of evidence in this litigation. carl massinio, ultimately led to the investigation and told fox 5 in early october . judge facciola is going to follow the evidence and act chordingly. obstruction of justice, when you look at this, struck of evidence, that is destruction of evidence, that is what it sounds like. reporter: he is wi