Ben Schott

Jeeves and the Cap that Fits

A sporting Jeeves story, with apologies to P.G. Wodehouse

The Secret Service said it would investigate Donald J. Trump’s longtime butler over Facebook posts laced with vulgarities and epithets calling for President Obama to be killed.

— New York Times, 12 May 2016

I had only just risen from a deep slumber, when in shimmied Jeeves with the cup that cheers.

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