Gadarene

Its name, Calamity Corner, is an understatement for a par 3 that could play as long as 236 yards across what Darwin called “its terrifying sandy cliffs and gadarene descent into unknown depths.”

And, looking forward, the current Gadarene stampede into the “internet of things” is redolent of a mindset that Professor Mickens satirises as: “Let’s forget all the lessons from traditional network security and hope for the best.”

This has been obvious to anyone who understands network security from the beginning of this particular Gadarene rush.

“I legislate today not out of fear, but out of a deep concern for the America I love. We do stand at a crossroad. We can continue the Gadarene slide into an endless cycle of riot and disorder, or we can begin the slow and painful ascent toward that yet-distant goal of equality of opportunity for all Americans, regardless of race or color.”

And in what is either Lee’s most brilliant or most random move yet, he closed his original Scratch Bar and his vegan restaurant Gadarene Swine and moved to a faceless Encino shopping mall — his house-made cheese and cured meats, and his rustic constructions of king crab with white gazpacho, lamb belly with currants and smelt in brioche are even more surreal in context.