“I have genuflected, like everybody else, before the whipping post at the Shards. On this island, young man, there are two kinds of people. Those who can be whipped, and those who assent to those whippings. No middle ground is allowed.”

It averages every other week, barring holidays. Usually indentures. Always on a Thursday at 3:00 PM. Announcements are published in The Island Beacon.