Hiatus: Gadfly is away till Tuesday, uncertain computer access, but has left a few things in the pipeline. Keep up the good work! Don’t inhale Sunday morning. Vote informedly. Miss you already.

Edward J. Gallagher, Bethlehem immigrant, retired, nearly 50 years as Professor of American Literature at Lehigh University, known as "Dr. G" and "Conan the Grammarian" to students, whose virtual world avatar "EdwardScholarhands" stares at you here, has reinvented himself as the Bethlehem Gadfly. View all posts by The Bethlehem Gadfly