Witch hunts are as American as Apple Tarts.

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | August 20, 2015

No. 1,203

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Three people can keep a secret, Ben Franklin once wrote, if two of them are dead.

And when the secret inevitably is revealed . . .. as Ricky used to say to Lucy, somebody has a lot of ‘splaining to do.

Maybe so, but not to us, the public.  Whether somebody’s email address and credit card appears in Dolly Madison’s (or whoever she is) website is none of our business.

So take the pledge with me that you won’t read or listen to gossip about that stuff.

I thought you wouldn’t. Oh well, take heart.  You’re gonna be in good company.Unless, of course, somebody stole your identity.  ‘Splain that to a gloating world.

Witch hunting is a long-standing American tradition.  We’ll drag ’em out in the street, put ’em in stocks and throw a lot of rotten fruit and vegetables at them.

And what about the hackers who caused all this?  What are we going to do to them?  Nothing.

And one fine day, they’ll come after the rest of us.

CLT

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