The immortal words of Lt. Col. John McCrae, the Voice of Flanders’ Fields, echo today, as that patient and obliging jurist, Judge David Gustafson, confronts one whom Taishoff deems the successor to the late Fighting Joe Insinga.

That worthy successor, assisted by his zealous, trusty attorney (whom I’ll call Mike), is Arthur M. Bialer, Docket No. 6983-19W, filed 5/7/24.

For Fighting Joe’s farewell, see my blogpost “Taps for Fighting Joe,” 12/5/23.

Art has only furnished me with four (count ’em, four) blogposts to date, as against the late Fighting Joe’s 18 (count ’em, 18, and I have). But it’s early times yet, as Tax Court litigation goes; Art and Mike are clearly aboard for the long haul.

I won’t try to paraphrase or summarize Judge Gustafson’s latest attempt to do a Bletchley Park on a couple Art’s motions (hi, Judge Holmes).

This is such stuff as bloggers’ dreams are made on.