Dave gets A

Good morning Dave . I just read your column . I would give

    it A+ for rhetorical respectability- and considering other columns on

    this divisive issue - give A for class.

          I can accept  " high misdemeanor " now that the Senate trial is

    a reality the nation must live with.

         But I would VOTE -if I could - with your favorite Rhode Island

    politician, The Honorable Patrick Kennedy . ( if he could too )

           What could ruin President Clinton instantly would be Hillary

    herself publicly humiliating him : " You're a liar and a cheat and

    I want the House ! "

             Then it would become clear that the issue is now BEYOND the

    laws of the land. The President is ALSO  the chief public relations

    officer of American society. He would be immediately crippled in THIS

    function if Hillary turned on him .

         That is the ONE circumstance in which a Clinton resignation -

    whatever his legal position - would be advised by his most loyal

    supporters.

            I hope the country will get over this crap !

                 Have a nice day  - ron


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comment from Dave Brussat

         Ron - Thanks for your note. If I were the Democratic Party, I would be
    bullshit at Clinton, who has veered to the right, beyond center, and then
    plunged the party into humiliation. I hope you'll enjoy our editorial about
    Patrick in tomorrow's paper (unless it's pulled!).
          - Dave 

Can DNA locate pharaoh's own ?

There are plenty of fairly well preserved Egyptian mummies, already

    objects of medical research . Many of these mummies were the most

    exalted rulers of their day , a few vainglorious conquerors .And many

    of them reproduced royally; one pharaoh, I read, fathered nearly 100

    children.

         I wonder if modern " miracle " DNA testing of the present Egyptian

    population - especially the people whose features recall the ancient

    Egyptian as pictured on those colossal buildings near the Valley of

    the Dead - can establish definite kinship  with old dynasties.

         I don't know what good would come from such an ambitious

    genealogical project : Could some obscure Egyptian citizen claim

    King Tut's wealth ? Perhaps there would be a new version of " The Mummy's

    Curse " !

            Now if some of those mummies can be cloned ?

Dr. Freud asked it too ! (to Gail Ciampa @ ProJo.com)

Dear Gail,  your exuberant column today reminded me of a conclusion

    I arrived at decades ago: There is no passion in the world that can

    rival MOTHERHOOD .

       Dr. Freud asked this rather sexist question : " But just WHAT does

    a woman want? "

         What she wants Doctor is a BABY, preferably " the most perfect girl

    in the whole wide world ".

        And a few other things to make the joy complete !

                 Have a nice day   ron

Jeff Jacoby's drool

Boston Globe columnist, Jeff Jacoby, must fancy himself

    - madly - as a patient conservative educator desperately trying to

    wisen up misguided and oh so HATEFUL liberals. He thinks it has been

    a banner year for Liberal Hate.

              I am more than willing to learn useful things from conservatives

    and they have the perfectly human right to try to modify  or change

    my opinions.  After all, I never stop READING them !

           But on the Clinton impeachment  controversy I have read very few

    intellectually respectable articles or columns written by self -described

    conservatives. They invariably indulge in repetitious drivel, the same

    phrases over and over again - repeated with as much subtlety as a sledge

    hammer on a stone wall:  " obstruction of justice ... lying under

    oath... no honor or integrity . "

            This style of arguing is more worth of the Nazis under Hitler.

    For Jacoby to talk about  Liberal Hate is lot like Hitler talking

    about Jewish insolence . ( more worthy )