Two Weeks in Hiding

A Tale of Two Sureties It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens, 1859 It was the worst of times, it was the worst-er of times for Bill Denby, who (two weeks ago now) found himself in the unfortunate position of being down a surety. He'd gone through multiple rounds of sureties since his arrest in the spring of 2024, on account of his tendency to rack up "failure to comply with…