Remember, Remember the Fifth of November
By Michael Pakaluk
After Bill Clinton's re-election, which he much lamented, Judge Bork wrote a famous essay on the martini ("How to Forget the Election"), offering an excellent method as to the best available consolation. In the same spirit, then, and seeking what consolations we need, I propose that we commemorate that fine judge and his estimable drink by declaring that henceforth the "Fifth" of November – in accordance with the word's ordinary public meaning – should mean gin, not Guy Fawkes's plot, nor the bonfires on which Englishmen once burned the pope in effigy.
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