NNO: What are you trying to accomplish?
The pillory, I have always thought, was among the cleverer of human punishments, mingling ostensible restraint with cynical cruelty. What could be more salutary than exposing the malefactor to public humiliation and shame? And what could be more deniably vicious than placing him where one could rely on the cowardly sadism of passers-by to shower [...]
