Oh ... one more thing, Professor Trotsky ...
instead of rapping the knuckles of any recalcitrant malcontents in the press gallery with a ruler, I was thinking you should use something a little more ... eh ... shall we say, "persuasive" ...
like a big-ass machete?

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence