Bob-
My deepest condolences to you and your family. Have a safe trip and hope all
heal well. I have got a package going off to you soon. Be well.
Love
Paz
P.S. We need to start talking about your set list for Boston.
on 5/29/01 10:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> <<To put it very bluntly, President Bush is an
> idiot when it comes to economics (and pretty much everything else.) >>
>
> This stuck out as I was talking last night with my brothers-in-law about
> baseball, and the seventh inning stretch in particular. I always thought that
> Taft was the reason for the tradition, as he was so large he had to get up out
> of the small seat and others in the ballpark would also stand out of respect.
> My brother-in-law said that Calvin Coolidge's term saw the introduction of the
> seventh inning stretch.
>
> Anyway, that wasn't my point...I mentioned that regardless of who the
> president was, the thing was that the tradition began because of *respect* for
> the office of the President. I'm not sure when that was lost, on Kennedy's
> death, maybe? (the end of Camelot?) Seems like all our leaders now are guilty
> until proven innocent, maybe that's a misperception on my part...
>
> I also thought of Bernie Taupin's line from "Texas Love Song", when he talks
> of hearts filled with national pride and kids still respecting the President's
> name.
>
> One last thing - the reason I was over at my in-laws house was because my
> father-in-law died yesterday. So I'll be heading out of town Wednesday(the
> funeral will be in Illinois) and am not sure what if any kind of e-mail access
> I'll have. So if you send me a message and I don't respond, don't think me
> snooty, I'll get back in a week or so...
>
> Oops, one MORE last thing: Covers Volume 18 shipments are going out today,
> I'll put together my "review" and contest when I return.
>
> Bob
>
> NP: Beth Patterson, "Mardi Gras"
