Sometimes it’s not easy to eat crow. Something about the feathers doesn’t taste well. And then there are those nasty anisodactyl feet – four toes, one of them points backward. They are scaly and hard to get down. Swallowing the bird that eats dead meat, you know – carrion, just turns my stomach. Consuming a scavenger, like a buzzard, a rat or a crow, is downright distasteful. So does admitting I was wrong. A colloquial idiom, eating crow, is to admit one’s words have been proven wrong. Since discovering the three-part movie series, Reacher, starring Tom Cruise, this writer became a huge fan of the character of the titular name. Based on the novels by Lee Child, the shows are about a former military policeman, Jack Reacher, whose travels across the country presents him with opportunities to solve crimes. His style of street justice gets things done.