statecraft

Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.

Sir Thopas wex a doghty swayn. Whyt was his face as payndemain, His lippes rede as rose. His rode is lyk scarlet in grayn, And I yow telle in good certayn He hadde a semely nose.

I must say I have seen him do a very Christian act at the Fish River. Some Kafir women were there eating; he begged of them; they refused to give him any food. […] I gave him some of the victuals we were enjoying, and he instantly broke the bread, and gave of it to these very Kafir women who had just refused any of theirs.