Smedley

Series one faithful Maddy Smedley explains that contestants are kept in separate holding rooms when they come to the castle in the morning and are called to go into breakfast individually or as a group.

A lesson past: Coup plotters and Smedley Butler.

Gen. Smedley Butler was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history, including being the recipient of two Congressional Medals of Honor.

A question for the future: There is no one of Smedley Butler’s stature in uniform today, and right-wing businessmen are laughably unlikely threats to a regime that exists largely for their benefit.

You only have to open Richard Wright’s “Black Boy,” Agnes Smedley’s “Daughter of Earth” or Justin Torres’ “We the Animals” to see their protagonists’ appreciation of beauty and ability to experience profound pleasure – yes, all while experiencing poverty.