The second Senate impeachment trial continues today. But I am going to talk about another kind of justice: the poetic kind.
One fine day in 2017, Juli Briskman rode her bike in Sterling, Virginia. Minivans passed beside her. That in itself is not unusual. Even the fact that they were black would not have been noteworthy, especially given the proximity of Ms. Briskman's route to the nation's capital city.
But she knew who was in one of those vehicles: the owner of the nearby golf course. She made a gesture toward him because she knew he probably wouldn't have heard what she might have said: Truck Fump.
All right, that's an anagram of what she could have said. So you know what kind of gesture she made. Who among us has not made it at motorists who cut us off or did other things to endanger us?
Normally, such an incident would go unnoticed. But someone posted it, and it went viral. Someone brought it to the attention of her employer--a government contracting firm. As a result, she lost her job as a marketing executive because her bosses decided she'd violated the company's code of conducted.
Now, there are all kinds of ways people deal with the loss of their jobs. They depend mainly on the fired employee's circumstances and temperament: They can look for another job, sue, go into business for themselves, go back to school or pursue something they've always wanted to do, among other things.
Juli Briskman decided to run for office.
In November, she won a seat in the Algnonkian District of the Loudon County Board of Supervisors. Sworn in last month, her new job includes overseeing leisure facilities.
In that capacity, she's already helped to build bicycle lanes in her district. Oh, and she's worked to remove a Confederate monument and release funds for COVID-19 relief.
And she's a Democrat.
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Hmm...a Democrat working to build bike lanes and remove Confederate monuments--and release funds for COVID-19 relief. In just a few weeks, she's managed to accomplish three things Mango Mussolini would hate. It sounds like poetic justice to me.
Photos in this post by Brendan Smialowski, from Getty Images.
