The Bostonian Abroad

You are doomed. Yup, we all are! You might not like to think about it, might not like to admit it, but it's true and as plain as the nose on your face: You are going to die. Everything you do, hope, think, dream, plan, and make will all one day be for naught. You think you will be remembered for something? Try again. Sure, you might be the "lucky one" and be remembered like Jesus was, or Rama, or Mohammed, but who remembers Ahmed, Sanjay, and Jimbo? No one, that's who. You might get real lucky and have a huge funereal temple built around your slowly rotting corpse, a la Tutankhamun, but most likely, you'll end up in the ground in a quite unremarkable enterrement,or worse, your ashes will lie scattered in a million directions across the uncaring world. . . Maybe you think someone's great sacrifice will lead to immortality? I betcha Jesus wouldn't be too thrilled with what became of his teachings. You think he ever had the Pope Mobile in mind back i

So Weiner actually DID send that tweet of his meat to a college student. He also has done this many times before, both before and after he was married. And he spent the last week or more lying about having done any of it??????? Ok, So here is why I am mad enough to say this jack-wagon has to be drummed out, driven out on a rail, if he doesn't do the right thing and resign. He is a big, fat, public, petty, selfish liar. And, yeah, I know, "Aren't they all?" True enough, and you might ask if I had the same attitude when Clinto went through this with Lewinsky. What Clinton did was no less stupid, no less reprehensible, and no less pathetic --except that Clinton was presiding over the best economic boom in the history of the planet. But when the country is in its second Great Depression, when the economic collapse has caused over 25 million Americans to have lost their jobs, some for over two years, when we are fighting two and a half wars, when the Republicans