End of the Season

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That was my last trip of the fall library season. I couldn't have asked for better weather. I had to take off my sweat jacket on the walk home from the bus stop, and that was the worst of it. I didn't even bring my book bag, just having the one book to drop off.

However, since I had some time to kill at the library before going off for my chicken fried rice, I browsed a bit, and I discovered another of those presidential books, one that sort of walks you through all the years and events of the Clinton presidency, "Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency". I was sure this would be great following "What It Takes" on the 1988 presidential race.

Though, I see on Amazon that the book gets fairly trashed. One reviewer says the author serves Clinton as well as Lewinski ever did, complete with presidential knee pads. And it is only about the first term! Still, I have a thing for these intimate diary-like narratives on presidential politics, even though I can only think of one that I have actually read, on the 1984 presidential election, but I loved it. Wait, there was also "The Hadleman Diaries".

Maybe there is a communal factor in this fascination, since the presidency is something that we all share, even across generations and time.

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End of the Season

♠
That was my last trip of the fall library season. I couldn't have asked for better weather. I had to take off my sweat jacket on the walk home from the bus stop, and that was the worst of it. I didn't even bring my book bag, just having the one book to drop off.

However, since I had some time to kill at the library before going off for my chicken fried rice, I browsed a bit, and I discovered another of those presidential books, one that sort of walks you through all the years and events of the Clinton presidency, "Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency". I was sure this would be great following "What It Takes" on the 1988 presidential race.

Though, I see on Amazon that the book gets fairly trashed. One reviewer says the author serves Clinton as well as Lewinski ever did, complete with presidential knee pads. And it is only about the first term! Still, I have a thing for these intimate diary-like narratives on presidential politics, even though I can only think of one that I have actually read, on the 1984 presidential election, but I loved it. Wait, there was also "The Hadleman Diaries".

Maybe there is a communal factor in this fascination, since the presidency is something that we all share, even across generations and time.

xXx

Attacking the Priest

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Cardinal Roger Mahony was roughed up on account of Church sex abuse

Mahony did not report the attack to police ''because he felt he could offer it up in reparation for the sins of others.''

It would be better if he thought of it in terms of his own sins. Even if he did not molest or rape kids, himself, he certainly abetted other priests who did. That arrogance runs deep, all the way into the soul.

xXx

Attacking the Priest

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Cardinal Roger Mahony was roughed up on account of Church sex abuse

Mahony did not report the attack to police ''because he felt he could offer it up in reparation for the sins of others.''

It would be better if he thought of it in terms of his own sins. Even if he did not molest or rape kids, himself, he certainly abetted other priests who did. That arrogance runs deep, all the way into the soul.

xXx