On the topic of kangaroo courts. Enjoy.
Paywall. Could you please excerpt?
Article from today explaining that Captain Kangaroo is not a judge.
“But it may date even earlier than that, back to the 1849 California Gold Rush. In 1985, the nationally syndicated column “The Straight Dope” explained that “some say miners established kangaroo courts to deal with claim jumpers (get it?).””
When I first followed that link I was hoping the SD cite was along the lines of Impeachment strategies: Let’s help Nancy! from the elections forum.
Of particular interest is the last paragraph.
Oh, sorry, forgot about that. Steatopygia has already posted the relevant excerpt.
Cool. 
And I’m happy to see that the link they included is to straightdope.com, not to Creative Loafing or one of the local papers that ran the column. That should help our rankings in Google searches.
Why is the Post’s Retropolis column being written by somebody 30 years younger than I am?
Thank you! Definitely cool.
The powers that be should add to the homepage a huge clickable button: Cool Messege Board Here!
Going the other way, here’s 4 times Cecil cited the Washington Post or Washington Post Magazine:
(Gfactor also cited the WP in one SDSAB column.)
With the most recent WP cite of Cecil, one could wonder if logrolling was involved but the column retirement rules that out.
Because you’re over 100 years old?