Thursday, October 27, 2005

Congratulations, Chicago White Sox!

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Patrick Fitzgerald and Regis High School

As I said in my previous post, Special Counselor Patrick Fitzgerald and I went to the same high school, where we were taught by the Jesuits. As a fellow alum, I am especially rooting for him in his very high profile task in treasongate; but, more important, I have full confidence he will do the right thing precisely because he went to Regis. People call him "Eliot Ness" with a Harvard degree. While true, I am more impressed with where he went to high school. All schools claim to turn out students who will be successful; Regis also claims to teach people to do the right thing, without fear or favor. Like very few schools, the propaganda is true.

My good friend of 26 years, Antonius at Boring Diatribe, describes a lot better what Buschco have to fear in letter he got published at Rude Pundit:

"Have you ever looked into the eyes of Jesuits? Look long enough, and you can see the heretics burning back there. Back then, they still imparted that zeal to their students, if pointed in more helpful directions.

"When I heard Fitzgerald went to Regis, I knew Rove and the boys were in a lot of trouble. Rest assured, if there's a crime, Patrick's going to find it, and he will prosecute. At the time I attended, Regis was designed to turn out moral (in the true sense) men who would become impeccable professionals or even captains of industry. I think Fitzgerald's route is obvious.

*****

"I know Roveco are criminals. You know they're criminals. If it can be proved, Patrick will prove it."

The rest is here.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Treasongate Indictment Predictions

Special Counselor Patrick Fitzgerald went to my high school, Regis, in Manhattan; I was class of 1983, he was class of 1978, so I didn't know him.

But if Regis taught us anything it taught us to be straight-shooters and I am proud of him because I know he will go wherever the truth leads him, even if to Bush/Cheney.

It seems like indictments will be coming any day, so here are my predictions:

George Bush--unindicted co-conspirator

Dick Cheney--indicted

Karl Rove--indicted

"Scooter" Libby--indicted

Stephen Hadley--indicted

Ari Fleischer--pleads a deal (would have been indicted for conspiracy)

Judy "Queen of Iraq" Miller--pleads a deal (would have been indicted for perjury and/or conspiracy)

The Rex Saxi Award for Cooperation with the Grand Jury:

Shared between Mary Matalin and Colin Powell

Saturday, October 08, 2005

Echo and the Bunnymen

Copying some songs to my computer.

Forgot how much I liked them...

Lips Like Sugar

She floats like a swan
Grace on the water
Lips like sugar
Lips like sugar
Just when you think you've caught her
She glides across the water
She calls for you tonight
To share this moonlight

You'll flow down her river
She'll ask and you'll give her...
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses

She knows what you know
I know what she's thinking
Sugar kisses, sugar kisses
Just when you think she's yours
She's flown to other shores
To laugh at how you break
And melt into this lake

You'll flow down her river
But you'll never give her...
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses

She'll be my mirror
Reflect what I am
Loser and Winner
The king of Siam
And my siamese twin
Alone in the river
Mirror kisses, mirror kisses...

Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses
Lips like sugar
Sugar kisses.....