Befitting names redux

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Oct 17 21:32:57 UTC 2009


Two recent deaths:

Justice (federal district court, Texas) William Wayne Justice.

Prophet (or at least "church founder") Elizabeth Clare
Prophet.  (According to the NYTimes, she "called on her followers in
the late 1980s to prepare for nuclear Armageddon" -- perhaps merely a
premature prophet.)

Joel

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