(God I miss John Profumo)
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>Ah Profumo, if politics here were like politics there, the man whose life after retirement Clinton would now be enjoying... :o)
And you look at Mandy Rice Davies and Christine Keeler and then Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones ... Maybe that's why I can't forgive Clinton.
Reminds of the line at the end of Man for All Seasons where Thomas More says to Richard Rich who has sold him out to become high commissioner in Wales , "Richard, it profits a man nothing to lose his soul for the whole world. But for *Wales*, Richard ? "
(just looked up Profumo's post resignation activities - pretty cool. Of course, there ain't Dubai money in it, but I bet Bill Clinton wouldn't have been invited to join Boodles or to Maggies 70th birthday. Anyway, good for him . Better taste, all the way down the line. RIP John.)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
