A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) – the Senator in question – told The Arkansas Times that the whole thing was a put-up and that no internship in the Senator’s office had been purchased at auction.
Legal thinking, like mathematical thinking, involves an exactification of concepts.
Here we are, said the artist of coffins, the last master of mortal ceremonies; we are now near home, keep close to me through this passage, or you may miss me in the dark—we turn, mind you, to the left, along the river: and darting down the “angiport,” he led the way to his retired abode.
There is no need of wiping ones taile (said Gargantua), but when it is foule; foule it cannot be unlesse one have been a skiting; skite then we must before we wipe our tailes.