… and a good one for the final stretch of any election cycle, from Saint Bonaventure: “Exemplum de simia, quae, quanto plus ascendit, tanto plus apparent posteriora eius.”

Or: “An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you can see of its behind.”

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....