Re: Fletcher Vs Kephart

Calamity -

A glass of wine is hardly what I would call "drinking himself to death." As for the "trailer", Batso was a carpenter by trade. He and his companion had been working to build a house for some years on his property, living meanwhile in a modular house. Yes, some people call those "mobile homes", and others call them "trailers" when disparaging them. But modular houses are pretty permanently emplaced, with permanent utility hookups. If you had to tow them to another location, it would require several days of preparation and a towing tractor like that used for an 18-wheeler. As kutenay said, to characterize the situation in the extremely negative way you did is demeaning, to say the least. Currently in this area, there is a court case in which the wife of a famous defense lawyer was brutally murdered in the modular house they were living in while their multi-million dollar mansion was being completed (the teenage son of a neighbor has been found guilty, but appeals are on-going). By your characterization, this world-famous defense lawyer and his wife (a well-known professional in her own right) were "trailer trash."