Scoundrels

Boston’s history of sports ownership is full of scoundrels, real-life and cartoon villains, Mr. Potter wannabes, and munificent and/or detached billionaires.

He was captivating, cool, and charismatic from his first appearance to his last, and is one of the greatest scoundrels in fictional history.

Last year was a busy one for Wilson, who starred in four films of varying quality: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Anne Hathaway (fun, ridiculous); Hitler Youth comedy (divisively cartoonish); the romcom parody (slightly off the mark); and (ghastly).

Journalists should pride themselves for their lowly status as scoundrels and junkyard dogs, only a yard or two ahead of the gendarmes and with prison or the stocks our likely fate if we do our jobs properly.

We all know of scoundrels who pass themselves off as great moral assets to society.

Alas, even outright public scoundrels and thugs like Al Sharpton, after a few years, end up as TV news pundits; people forget his thuggery, anti-Semitism, and his race baiting.

From those wheezing, coughing presses the latest communiqués will begin their patient journey to the far-flung reaches of the AVA empire, for the wandering knights and pious scoundrels to contemplate and devour like the magic bones of a sacred beast.

Like the book, “Big River” is Huckleberry Finn’s first-person account of running away with Jim the slave, facing danger, persecution, and all sorts of scoundrels along the way.

Now, thankfully, Zanu-PF has swiftly moved in to remind everyone that it remains the first choice refuge for all the country's deplorables and scoundrels.

The government has been so merciful to your misled scoundrels and somehow they thought they had become invincible as you urged them on!

City of Scoundrels: The Twelve Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago.

In 1998, A&E ran a program called Scams, Schemes & Scoundrels highlighting Van Meegeren's life and art forgeries, many of which had been confiscated as Nazi loot.

The book is subtitled: Being a Definitive History of the Venerable Arts of Sorcery, Prestidigitation, Wizardry, Deception, & Chicanery and of the Mountebanks & Scoundrels Who have Perpetrated these Subterfuges on a Bewildered Public, in short, MAGIC!