adulterer, cut loose, cuckold, a greater injury in lying. to accommodate his calendar. kept asking Judge Juan Merchan to cut him loose to attend other matters:

Donald Trump is learning a hard lesson: Criminal defendants don’t get to set their own schedules.

ICYMI, Monday was Day 1 of America’s first-ever criminal trial of a former president. And the presumptive GOP nominee kept asking Judge Juan Merchan to cut him loose to attend other matters:

Could he attend his son Barron’s high school graduation?

Could he skip the trial to attend Supreme Court arguments about whether he’s immune from special counsel Jack Smith’s charges?

Could he be exempt from any proceedings that may arise on Wednesdays so he can campaign?

And all three times the judge responded with, essentially, “eh, we’ll see.”

Day 1 of the trial – in which Trump is accused of falsifying business records to buy the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels – focused on vetting potential jurors, though that was delayed for hours when prosecutors moved to hold him in contempt and fine him $3,000 for violating a gag order.

But by the end of the day, Trump seemed less focused on the substance of what happened and more on the judge’s refusal to accommodate his calendar.

“He won’t allow me to leave here for a half a day to go to D.C. and go before the United States Supreme Court, because he thinks he’s superior,” Trump told reporters outside the courtroom.

And he griped about possibly missing Barron’s graduation: “I was looking forward to that graduation, with his mother and father there, and it looks like the judge does not allow me to escape this scam.”

It’s a jarring new reality for Trump. He’s used to setting the agenda, and after he left the White House, he’s been bouncing between his sunny Florida resort and political rallies full of adoring fans. But now, Trump the defendant faces serious restrictions on where he can go and what he’s allowed to say – in addition to staring at potential jail time if convicted.

Read the full story at the link below.

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/ Michel de Montaigne /

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"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

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"Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, also known as Lord of Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. Montaigne had a direct influence on numerous Western writers; his massive volume Essais contains some of the most influential essays ever written. During his lifetime, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author. The tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than as an innovation, and his declaration that "I am myself the matter of my book" was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent. In time, however, Montaigne came to be recognized as embodying, perhaps better than any other author of his time, the spirit of freely entertaining doubt that began to emerge at that time."

Saul Bellow was born a hundred years ago today. He was a serial adulterer, a negligent father and a surprisingly lacklustre public speaker.

Corporate boards have always been one of the weakest parts of the capitalist system—collections of cuckolds, in Ralph Nader’s phrase. Messrs Bainbridge and Henderson have come up with an intriguing idea for keeping companies from straying.

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cut loose

1Distance or free oneself from a person, group, or system:he was a young teenager, already cutting loose from his family

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1.1Begin to act without restraint:when Mannion cut loose the home side collapsed to 127 all out

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老師不教的英文：戴綠帽cuckold

A cuckold is a man who has been betrayed by his wife. If your wife cuckolds you, she is cheating on you with a different man.

cuckold

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Pronunciation: /ˈkʌk(ə)ld /

NOUN

DATED

The husband of an adulteress, often regarded as an object of derision:jokes in literature about elderly cuckolds and misers are rife

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1(Of a man) make (another man) a cuckold by having a sexual relationship with his wife:in the novel Humberto cuckolds his employer

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1.1(Of a man’s wife) make (her husband) a cuckold:he was repeatedly cuckolded by his wife Aphrodite

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Origin

late Old English, from Old French cucuault, from cucu'cuckoo' (from the cuckoo's habit of laying its egg in another bird's nest). The equivalent words in French and other languages applied to both the bird and the adulterer; cuckold has never been applied to the bird in English.

Derivatives

cuckoldry

NOUN

adulterer, 

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Pronnoun

A person who commits adultery.

Origin

Early 16th century: from the obsolete verb adulter'commit adultery', from Latin adulterare 'debauch, corrupt', replacing an earlier Middle English nounavouterer, from Old French avoutrer 'commit adultery'. adulterer, 

unciation: /əˈdʌlt(ə)rə/