When I hear everyone in town maligning that reviled scam artist, Captain Eagleman -- whose 3 card monty scheme bilked me out of my retirement fund -- I must say I am truly chagrined. Here is a man who was given his day in court and convicted in a trial by his peers and now is being hung in the court of public opinion. I'm no law expert, but that sounds like Double Jeopardy to me - because it's harder and all the questions are in the form of answers. I wish someone would step up to the plate and say "I'm asking the questions here" and then make a vague threat about "where you're going" and how you "won't need" something or other when you get there.
Instead of taking Captain Eagleman to task for his remorseless generational theft which has done irreparable harm to public trust, shouldn't we not do that? To be sure, I and my entire family hate Captain Eagleman. My first reaction to hearing he had swindled me out of my money was to say: "This is weird." I yelled at him as he walked away but then puzzled over what step to take next. I could only hope he was planning to spend this money in a manner benefiting the commonweal. He did not! When I told the rest of my family what had happened, they then yelled at me - a true turning of the water tables. Which brings us to the present, I now hate Captain Eagleman.
But what is hate, really? Does anyone remember when those sociologists got together in the 1970s and came up with a definition of love and then everyone thought it was a shame? Well, I don't recall them doing that for the word "hate." Someone once e-mailed me a list of commonly-used words that are actually acronyms. How about that? Apparently, "hate" stands for "Having Any Trouble Eating?" We've been mis-using this word for hundreds of years. It's a question. A question we haven't answered yet.
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Albert Hall, MD
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