It really is just shameful that a father's grief is being put under a microscope and examined by paranoid delusional fucktards with an agenda.

The case is dismissed as between Jones and Smith. (makes explicit that the case is continued between other parties to the litigation)

There's undoubtedly a grain of truth in that view — like most snippets of technojargon, the word modem may sound needlessly Star Warsy.

[…] while the architects watched hopelessly and helplessly. Again, it was a group of young Nigerian revolutionaries in military uniform who rushed to the rescue and tried to save the country from the experience of another night of the long knives.