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The Louisiana Secretary of State had to resign this past week, done in by a complaint filed by a former employee. The lady says he has been harassing her sexually for the past ten years, and she’s got the goods to back it up. She has saved cards and letters and emails and there wasn’t much he could say. Now we have to pay him more than 100 G per year in retirement pay, and we also had to hire a lawyer to defend him against the charge. Whether he ever got what he was chasing depends on which of them you believe. He says that there was a consensual relationship at one time, and she says it ain’t so. I believe they shared a suite at a meeting out west, but she says it was an error by the hotel and she slept on the couch anyway. Sure she did.
I don’t see that it makes much difference, either way. He’s busted, but good, and it cost him a much better job than I ever had, besides any plans he might have had to run for something better. I wonder if he ever thought it might happen or if he figured he was bullet-proof.
The week before it was Bill Cosby, and a jury in Pennsylvania decided he had been committing crimes in the pursuit of his envie. Love letters were not his thing – he had some pills that worked quick. Ol’ Bill will go to court again to get his time, which figures to be considerable, but he’s out on bail and with appeals and all he might never get locked up. He’s eighty years old for cryin’ out loud. What were his gains and what are his losses? Here again, did he think nobody would rat him out? Who the hell did he think he was?
President Donald Trump has his own miseries in this area. His tormentor is a porn star who just happened to show up a week before the election and said she would go public with her story, and she got some big cash to keep quiet. But she didn’t stay quiet very long and now everybody knows. Knows what? It doesn’t matter. The Donald did not write her mash notes and he didn’t put anything funny in her soda pop, but he’s busted just the same, isn’t he? And if Stormy’s tale is true I have to wonder how he got so rich without being smarter than that.
Last summer it was Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly at Fox News, and then Matt Lauer at that other outfit. Same thing. And what about Bill Clinton and his juicy romantic adventures when he lived at the White House? It got him impeached, but in the end it wasn’t Monica who outed him. She was his loyal fan, at the very least, and she kept the secret as long as she could stand it before telling her friend and that was one mouth too many, in a manner of speaking. Personally, I’m glad he beat the rap, as it didn’t seem like a good enough reason to change Presidents. Even Hillary might agree.
Far as I know none of these guys are pool players, but if they were they might be called ‘through tickets’ – players who keep gambling until they are busted.
Sex is great, but it’s been getting men and women (and others) in trouble since the very beginning. The Bible presents it as an apple, to avoid using four-letter words, and the quest for the finest apple pie in town has led men astray all along the way; women too, for that matter. I’m not sure that our behavior is a whole lot worse than it used to be, but there’s no more secrets. The town crier is on the six o’clock news today, and if you’re doing wrong the rest of us will find out, if not today then tomorrow for sure.
I wrote this Sunday night and put it aside because I didn’t know how to end it. Now it’s Monday morning and I still don’t know. There must be a moral here, but maybe it isn’t about sex, after all. Not about celebrities or politicians or anyone else who is getting into the strange apple pie just because he can. Maybe it’s about the gambling. Don’t risk more than you can afford to lose – but you already knew that.
Finally, here is a bit of good news. In the Louisiana high school championship meet this weekend, a kid named Armand Duplantis cleared 19’5” in the pole vault. That’s a new world junior record.
Busted
The Louisiana Secretary of State had to resign this past week, done in by a complaint filed by a former employee. The lady says he has been harassing her sexually for the past ten years, and she’s got the goods to back it up. She has saved cards and letters and emails and there wasn’t much he could say. Now we have to pay him more than 100 G per year in retirement pay, and we also had to hire a lawyer to defend him against the charge. Whether he ever got what he was chasing depends on which of them you believe. He says that there was a consensual relationship at one time, and she says it ain’t so. I believe they shared a suite at a meeting out west, but she says it was an error by the hotel and she slept on the couch anyway. Sure she did.
I don’t see that it makes much difference, either way. He’s busted, but good, and it cost him a much better job than I ever had, besides any plans he might have had to run for something better. I wonder if he ever thought it might happen or if he figured he was bullet-proof.
The week before it was Bill Cosby, and a jury in Pennsylvania decided he had been committing crimes in the pursuit of his envie. Love letters were not his thing – he had some pills that worked quick. Ol’ Bill will go to court again to get his time, which figures to be considerable, but he’s out on bail and with appeals and all he might never get locked up. He’s eighty years old for cryin’ out loud. What were his gains and what are his losses? Here again, did he think nobody would rat him out? Who the hell did he think he was?
President Donald Trump has his own miseries in this area. His tormentor is a porn star who just happened to show up a week before the election and said she would go public with her story, and she got some big cash to keep quiet. But she didn’t stay quiet very long and now everybody knows. Knows what? It doesn’t matter. The Donald did not write her mash notes and he didn’t put anything funny in her soda pop, but he’s busted just the same, isn’t he? And if Stormy’s tale is true I have to wonder how he got so rich without being smarter than that.
Last summer it was Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly at Fox News, and then Matt Lauer at that other outfit. Same thing. And what about Bill Clinton and his juicy romantic adventures when he lived at the White House? It got him impeached, but in the end it wasn’t Monica who outed him. She was his loyal fan, at the very least, and she kept the secret as long as she could stand it before telling her friend and that was one mouth too many, in a manner of speaking. Personally, I’m glad he beat the rap, as it didn’t seem like a good enough reason to change Presidents. Even Hillary might agree.
Far as I know none of these guys are pool players, but if they were they might be called ‘through tickets’ – players who keep gambling until they are busted.
Sex is great, but it’s been getting men and women (and others) in trouble since the very beginning. The Bible presents it as an apple, to avoid using four-letter words, and the quest for the finest apple pie in town has led men astray all along the way; women too, for that matter. I’m not sure that our behavior is a whole lot worse than it used to be, but there’s no more secrets. The town crier is on the six o’clock news today, and if you’re doing wrong the rest of us will find out, if not today then tomorrow for sure.
I wrote this Sunday night and put it aside because I didn’t know how to end it. Now it’s Monday morning and I still don’t know. There must be a moral here, but maybe it isn’t about sex, after all. Not about celebrities or politicians or anyone else who is getting into the strange apple pie just because he can. Maybe it’s about the gambling. Don’t risk more than you can afford to lose – but you already knew that.
Finally, here is a bit of good news. In the Louisiana high school championship meet this weekend, a kid named Armand Duplantis cleared 19’5” in the pole vault. That’s a new world junior record.