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“These folks have stooped to a new low to try to intimidate the lawyers of the Buzbee Law Firm from doing their important work,” Buzbee said in a prepared statement.

It is tragic that the Washington Post, which once employed Ben Bagdikian would stoop to showing cowardice in the face of this historic challenge.

Still, the emotional acuity of a writer who felt things too deeply to stoop to cheap sentiment comes through.

A phrase he often uttered described his affinity for helping youngsters in need: “A man never stands taller than when he stoops to help a child.”

They stooped to cut the right-size stalks at the base with a sudden jab of an asparagus knife, a tool that resembles a fireplace poker with a forked chisel tip instead of a point.