Was Ebeneezer Scrooge unfairly portrayed by Charles Dickens?
First I must admit that Shaffer’s “brief” did give me quite a bit of guilty pleasure. I thoroughly enjoyed it and even laughed quite a bit while trying to keep in mind that you were posing a serious question. To respond with an “amicus curiae” brief was tempting, but an even more time consuming process that I unfortunately have to presently decline. If you have ever given a lecture you will know that one nightmare scenario is to have someone get up, and profess a superior knowledge, and proceed to tear at the basis for your propositions. My first suggestion to Shaffer is therefore to write his own classic that tears down socialism instead of trying to detract from a work that offers comfort to those honoring a season when introspection might be valued. Instead, for his own aggrandizement, he preys upon a safely dead author not in a position to defend his own work. This would be a mean-spirited action is worthy of his client. It therefore falls upon we, the lessor well equipped, to defe
