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** WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2020
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Henry [VIII], for reasons of state, made himself Supreme Head of the Church, and made it a capital offense to say that he was not. Then, finding it inconvenient that [St. Thomas] More should live, Henry had him put to death by perjury. We may hold that such a judicial murder is contrary to Divine and Natural Law; or we may hold that it was merely a matter of taste and policy how the all-competent state disposed of the lives and bodies of inconvenient persons. But we must decide for one or the other.
– Raymond Wilson Chambers,
The Place of St. Thomas More in English Literature and History ([link removed]) [1937]


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 5, 2020
Should the State Mandate Tipping? ([link removed])
When I was in law school, I waited tables in a restaurant in Texas for a couple of months. The tips were good, but every once in while a customer would stiff me. The customer would be nice and friendly and never complain about the service but then just walk out of the restaurant without leaving a tip. It happens to every waiter. ...
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