Oh, I see I'm an idiot. Carry on.

2 of the eight ladies are ladies of color yet they are all ladies.

8 are ladies, 2 being ladies of color.

He is right about the insurance salesman, though.

Not an assumption, a conclusion drawn from experience.

That's my point, Matt. A written, signed document can conceivably lead to hard proof of wrongdoing. Without such a document nothing is provable. And that may be by design.

I mean a written statement, not a verbal one. And the third party need not be a reporter. A letter to the editor by Harper Lee herself or would be sufficient.

But it should not make sense to you that Lee would communicate entirely through her lawyer, particularly if she is (as claimed) hurt by innuendo - because she has her own voice. if she is as alert and as capable as her lawyer insists she is, Then all that is required to reassure the public is for Lee to speak for…

There will be nothing much left to say after his tour is over, unless someone new comes forward or current legal actions against him progress and something worth reporting occurs. Good or bad that is the news cycle.. In the meantime, he is touring at venues that were unable to break contract with him. When this tour…

Perhaps he was just playing politics where he knew it would make no difference.

She's friends with Scalia. Happy to help :)

I once had someone's racing pigeon take up residence on my balcony for a week or so. I did a lot of Google research on pigeons just to try to understand what was going on (was it lost, what to feed it, etc) and I became kind of enamored of the idea of keeping pigeons myself. Then I learned that your pigeon might…

No, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to suggest lying on Lee's part.

Well, the people doing the talking say this novel was her first. It's up to you whether or not you want to accept that uncritically. I believe that if Harper Lee had written a 300 page manuscript that was directly related to the evolution of TKAM it would have become part of the known narrative at some point in the…

"Isn't this actually her first novel?"

Here is a customer review on Amazon of "Congratulations, Now what?" dated 1999:

To keep the family safe.

We all have our blind spots.

It's possible that the repainting method begins with the doll-face as a "blank canvas" with all facial features covered over, in which case the artist isn't so much erasing ethnicity as creating faces she knows. You might want to communicate your thoughts directly to the artist, (I think you have a point.) Remember…

Sounds an awful lot like the Dolly Parton tattoo story.