Brent Shepherd (he/him)
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Down these mean skeets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Down these mean skeets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
![[screencap of screenplay excerpt]
CLOSE SHOT McCUE AT PHONE
McCUE
(into phone)
McCue speaking. Mrs. Phoebe DeWolfe, eight-sixty-one and a half South State Street, colored, gave birth to a pickaninny in a patrol wagon with Sheriff Hartman's special Rifle Squad acting as nurses. Well -- Phoebe was walking along the street when all of a sudden she began -- that's right. So the police coaxed her into the patrol wagon and they started a race with the stork. When the pickaninny was born the Rifle Squad examined him carefully to see if it was Earl Williams who they knew was hiding somewhere.
MED. SHOT
Hildy is still pacing. McCue laughs at his own joke.
McCUE
(to Hildy)
Did you get that, Hildy?
HILDY
No -- what?
Hildy's phone rings. She answers.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cnlqtx4oukgw2sgvtefy2c6g/bafkreigxblupj5hzsd33oxfnquwzyremljmfvx6qqpmiozyr526qvncsqq)
![[above a medium close-up of Mitch McConnell, shot from below and framing his head against a rotunda whose rays make it appear that a nimbus encircles his head — imagery that is at once blasphemous and wistful, becaause maybe the racist son of a bitch really is dead]
Mitch McConnell's hospitalization got me thinking.
If a U.S. senator is hospitalized for months and can't vote or represent the people who elected them, why is there no process to determine whether they're still able to serve?
Most Americans have to justify missing a single day of work.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cnlqtx4oukgw2sgvtefy2c6g/bafkreiaocmy5rz6lbfi2ydkicsrq7a3meol7w34dd5l7ye2xa32zffe36m)
