Freyer article Pollyannish

 I just read and enjoyed Felice Freyer's article " Growing

    Happy " ( Providence Sunday Journal ,Feb. 28 ) . Still it struck me as

    rather Pollyanish : Oh OLD AGE - which a 60 year old Leon Trotsky

    more realistically described as " hideous " at least for the vast

    majority of humanity - can bubble over with joy, and and the ebullience

    of feeling FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST, THANK GOD I'm FREE AT LAST !

            If you're an elderly male BLISS is inconceivable unless you're

    LEGALLY MARRIED ! Just forget about any frivolous " fooling around " on

    the brink of the black ABYSS .  Make that date with City Hall right now.

          And at the age of 90 you might find yourself being chased around

    the country by a brutish bounty hunter, hired by LEGAL wife. " Hell

    hath no fury like the woman scorned ! "

            Nature was WISER at the turn of the century when most of us males

    were dropping dead at Bill Clinton's age. Beginning in middle age "life "

    for most males is just a rather disgusting BAD HABIT.

            Very few of human beings get to understand and experience the

    joys of the mind. After the family raising decades , the average DRUDGE,

    hardly knows why he or she is alive.

             Mankind exaggerates its evolutionary distance from the monkeys.

      A bored monkey is a philosopher of his race !

A one star pun ?

 I read in the entertainment section of my newspaper this

    morning this SECRET OF SUCCESS  from Lucy Lawless - " the fierce,vengeful,

    sword brandishing Xena "  of the TV series " Warrior Princess " :

         " You should think high ", she advises. As a girl she was told,

    " you can be whatever you want to be ".

           But is our society ready for a Lawless judge ?

                        ( Boo ! )

A Nobody Cares !

 read your editorials with the attention they deserve. I

    am always prepared to change my mind  on matters involving

    human beings AFTER THE FALL.

           I just read " And nobody cares " dealing with a Juanita

    Broaddrick's  pathetic " Bill Clinton raped me " story. I

    say " pathetic " because it can go nowhere legally after 20

    years. Also Juanita already admits to LYING UNDER OATH ( Bill

    Clinton NEVER sexually assaulted her ) .

          Was it not in the interest of her state -when Clinton

    was its Atty. General no less - to have this revelation against

    his character ? 

             Is it moral to publicly accuse a man of raping you

    with no intention of taking him to court ?

           So far this incident - which you say is all too

    plausible- seems to have all the complexity of " date rape ".

    Didn't you recently defend a Brown University track coach

    against a highly questionable " date rape " accusation ?

            I did catch a glimpse of the sobbing Juanita Broaddrick

    on television. I asked myself : Do women REALLY get that emotional

    over a sexual incident two decades in the past ?

          Could she be bitter about not having been taken more

    seriously by the rising star politician, Bill Clinton ?

         Do you think that a handsome doorman could ever

    have conned his way into her bedroom ?

            You might be right about Clinton's character. In

    a sense his CHARACTER is perfectly impeachable - but his

    presidency simply was not.

            An unkind cut : Juanita on TV reminded me of a loser

    on the old TV show : " Queen for a Day ".

Projo " archive "- a blessing

 I would like the editors of the Providence Journal to know

    what a blessing their  ON-LINE ARCHIVE is for  readers like myself

    - half gossip, half detective, scholar, and busy body.

            Just this week -using the RIC computers - I really got acquainted

    with this invaluable service . And I had no need of my golden credit

    card ( of course I have one ! ) to access the information I was looking

    for. The " key word " search did the trick.

            I always wanted to know who moved into my old family house in

    the Washington Park area of Providence. I found out fast enough by

    just typing in the old address. It turned out that a member was charged

    with assault on a 17 year old girl. I did not need to know the REST OF

    THE STORY.

            And I found out that a close and dear friend of mine was

    questioned about a dead body in a motel. I STILL do  not know the

    REST OF THE STORY.  ALL THAT was ten years ago. I tried to call " Don "

    but his Miami phone had been recently disconnected.

            I did not even know that the Providence Journal had published

    a letter of mine complaining that Roger Williams Park was turning into

    a " Third World pigsty ". Very politically incorrect ! My Grandmother

    Engley ( it practically says England! )  was little on the nasty side

    famous for her " poison pen ".

             I also found out that a fiery parish priest - way back then

    only about 35 - is still around. Father Behan - he looked a little like

    Mickey Mantle - was now preaching at St. Jude's in Lincoln.

            I also learned that my uncle " Nick " had been a city editor

    for the Providence Journal during the Depression era.

             I look forward to many more hours of snooping on your precious

    electronic " Archive " . Someday I might need  that credit card. But

    can deliver newspapers instead ?