The red cardinal bird is the mascot of The Catholic University of America~~whose school tie I wear~~as does~~I am told~~to my astonishment and profound embarrassment~~little boy blue~~soon now to be yet another utterly forgotten Governor of Virginia~~acting out in yet another vain quest to play at being Mr Jefferson~~first, present~~and last~~Governor of that Commonwealth~~

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Last night, her kitchen duties done, I sent Maria off to her bed and settled in with Mr Stone’s Agony and Ecstasy~~a wonderful work~~the title of which alone most succinctly sums up life in today’s America.

A persistent~~insistent~~pounding on my door commenced~

I do not generally tend my door but as I’d sent Maria to dream with angels~~I opened~up~

Begg~~old boy~how the devil are you~~

Who the hell are you~~

My guest was not immediately recognizable, very drunk, loud and in possession of a colored strumpet~~

Begg~~why isn’t your tele~vision on~~you’re missing the elections~~

What?

It’s not even plugged in~

What~

Anyway~~the news is good and bad~

There’s news for you~

Which do you want first~

Which what?

Which news~~good or bad~~and where’s your girl~

I’ve sent her to her bed~

HA~Ha~~You old buzzard~~where’s your brandy~

All gone~

I know where it is on the bar downstairs~~I’ll fetch it myself~

Jesus~~well use the bad crystal and keep this girl away from the silver~

I’m a nice girl, Mr. Begg~I heard of you~

Oh, I’m sure~

Here we are Begg~to whom shall we drink~

The devil himself~

I give you~~The devil~~

~~Himself~~

Why are you here–I mean now–it’s half-ten~the dead middle of the night~

I knew you’d have something insightful to say about the political races~

I’ve nothing to say~

Nothing~

Nothing~

Well~~the news guys say it’s all about girls rights today~~all about that~

Oh?  What are those?

I’ve no idea but the news guys are on and on about how little boy blue won in Virginia all down to these girls rights~

Oh?

You know this kid–goofy looking kid I know~and a Democrat~he went to our school~

School?

Catholic University old boy~cardinal red~

Oh, Really?

Aren’t you the least proud or excited?

The very least~

Well~he’s now the Governor of Virginia~like Jefferson~

Like Jefferson~

Well sort of~

Well~sort of~

Yeah~boy blue is a far cry from Tom Jefferson and a goofy looking bastard too~

Oh?

Why aren’t you interested~~everybody else is~

Then let everybody else be~

Be what?

interested~

Old Christie won easily again up in New jersey~don’t ya know~

I didn’t~

Dontcha care~

I don’t~

Let’s have more cognac~

There’s never enough~

Martel Cordon Bleu~I must say here parenthetically~is like drinking warm velvet~a delight sans, sans, sans~~pareil~

To the devil?

Yes, to him once again, then~

Here’s how~

Begg~they say old Christie is fat but very popular~

Which is he?

What?

Fat or popular?

Oh, both I guess~you’re awfully funny~always~isn’t he a stitch he asks the strumpet~

He is like something from an old movie~

Is that true Mr. Begg~~are you like something from an old movie~

Everybody is like something from a movie~~prostitutes for example are very plentiful in pictures~

I am not a prostitute~~Mr Begg~~I’m a nice girl~

Oh~I’m sure~

Where is your girl~what’s her name~

Maria~she’s to her bed~

You old buzzard~is she another new one~

Another new what~

You know~what do you always call them~~servant girls~

She is a servant girl and  a Catholic~

Everybody’s a Catholic tonight it seems~little boy blue~our red boy he beat, you, me and your new Maria~

My, my~

Begg imports these girls you know baby~

Oh~is that legal Mr. Begg~

I’ve no idea~

Is she pretty~

As a picture~she’s a servant girl~

From where~

Montevideo, Uruguay~

Where in the hell is that~

You don’t need to know that~

Do you sleep with her, Mr. Begg~

You really don’t need to know that~

Anyway~Begg~another for the road~

You’re going~~thank Jesus~

He’s such a cad, hunney~he loves seeing us~

How could that be~I still haven’t figured out who you are~

We went to school together old boy~

I hardly ever went to school~

Did you get bad grades, Mr Begg~

I don’t remember~

What were you doing when you were supposed to be in school~

I don’t remember~

I do~~I remember what he was doing~~

He was doing  girl after girl after girl~

No~~I was reading~

Oh sure Mr. Begg, reading~and I’m a Holy Nun~

Who is this girl~

I don’t know~found her in a bar downtown~

Keep her away from the silver and the good glass~

I’m a good girl, Mr Begg~

Oh~I’m sure~

Speaking of making off with the bone china~they say Madam Clinton will be next President~

They~who?

You know~news guys~

News guys?

Yeah they have it all worked out~Christie against Madame Clinton~ what do you think~

What a nauseating prospect~

Well~ you don’t like the boy in there now do you~I mean anything would be an improvement~

Don’t know him~never seen him~never heard him speak~wouldn’t know him if I fell over him in the street~

Begg has this remarkable way of walling himself off~

Walling off against what, Mr Begg?

Life’s unpleasantness~and its irritants~

There’s plenty of that to be sure~

Plenty, yes~

Good morning, Senor~sorry~

Ahh Maria~~it’s very early dear~~I have had the intruders in~~watch the silver and the good glass~carefully~

Angel, you~

Senor~want breakfast~

She talks so funny~

Funny?

She’s a Spainish isn’t she?

Yes~

So~she’s likely a Democrat and a Catholic too~

Too~

Yes, Sir, like all the others tonight~

God help us all~my Maria is no Democrat~she is a member of my household~

Begg~what about the race with old fat Christie and the old fat Madame Clinton~

Sounds like an even race~no weight breaks for either horse it sounds~

The news guys say–it’s them–and nobody else~just those two~both fat~

The news guys~

Yep~ they say they are the experts~

Yeah?

So what do you think?

About what?

Clinton running against old Christie?

I think I remember when she was elected before~

To be President~Oh!! no, no~that was her husband–Pudgy Willy~another fat one~

Oh?

This time~it’s the wife~the news guys say it’s a sure bet~

Yes~I remember them saying that~some years ago when she was elected President before~

Where do you get these ideas~

Well~~from your news guys~they’re~~as you say~the experts~

Begg~~you appear to be out of cognac which means~~we’re out of here~

Thank heaven for shortages~~none too soon~

Well~hats off to little boy blue~old fat Clinton and old fat Christie~

Of course yes~~hats off~~anything~~pants off~~if it’ll get you to GO~

Good morning~

Goodbye Mr. Begg~I hope to see you again sometime~it was an honor~

I doubt it will be repeated~~I do not customarily patronize prostitutes~

You never know~maybe you will sometimes~on occasion~and when you do~ we can meet~

I doubt it very much~

If you don’t like what I do~what should I change into~

Well~maybe you can run against the two fat candidates in 2016, my dear~

Will you vote for me~over them I mean~

Oh, yes, sure~I always try to support the most morally upright candidate~

What does that mean~you’re joshing me aren’t you~

I never would~

Goodnight~

nite~nite~

Thank Jesus God~~they are gone~~ Maria

Some breakfast, Senor?

Grand idea, grand idea~eggs and ham and toast and broiled tomatoes with garlic~my dear angel~

Oh and Maria~open a champagne~a good one~

Yes, sir, your Krug~sir?

Ahh–leche de mare~~si, si, Maria, besos~

Thank you, sir~

Maria~do you desire girl’s rights?

I don’t know what that is Sir–should I or should I not~

Give them a pass I think, dear

What Sir?

Girls Rights, Maria~you give them a pass~

Yes, sir~I pass them~I go to get your breakfast~

And my Krug~

Yes. Sir, Krug~

Si, si, Maria~mi~Krug~~sans, sans, sans~ pareil

Yes, Sir~

Little angel~

Why do little angels need these~what the devil are they called Maria~girl’s rights?~I mean~why do girls need them~if they’re pretty~I mean~?

I don’t need them Sir~unless you want me to have them~

Oh!! heavens no dear~~they’re not the sort of thing for a sweet angel like you~I think they are for fat girls~

I see, Sir~OK~I stay skinny for you, Sir~

Such an angel, that girl~what a perfectly wonderful way to start the new day after that odd interlude with such a bumptious young man whose ~~very newly acquired~~family money gives him a sense of entitlement far away undue him~~and of course~~his prostitute~~

Breakfast, Senor~and your Krug~~~

Maria–sit by me dear~

At table~Sir?

Yes, just so~hold my hand~

Are you ill, Sir~

Oh, no, silly boots~we are going to pray for our breakfast~

Oh, Yes, sir~mi mommy prays at meals~

Does she~little lamb?

She does~

Maria~we thank the Lord Above for His Bounty here below~now given~

Ah~men

Ah~men, Sir~

The red cardinal bird is the mascot of The Catholic University of America~~whose school tie I wear~as does~I am told~~to my astonishment and profound embarrassment~~little boy blue~~soon now to be another utterly forgotten Governor of Virginia~~acting out yet another vain quest to play at being Mr Jefferson~~first, present~~and last~~Governor of that Commonwealth~~

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In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Rockefeller Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~

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