Some people put Christmas music on the stereo, radio, or computerized device. Some people over-eat. Some take trips, or walk amidst the winter moonlight.
As for me this year, I am reading books. Finally, now that Christmas is over I am actually reading books again, after tending to musical endeavors.
My main book at the moment is one I had never read: The Final Days, about the Nixon Watergate scandal, written by those reportorial sleuths Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. The book, published in 1976, covers those portions of 1973-74 in which the country slowly awoke to the festering pustule called Watergate.
So much about The Final Days registers now. While the Ukrainian fiasco is different from the Watergate crisis in many ways, the reactions of the President in both cases do have their similarities. The secretiveness and furtiveness, the self-dealing and self-deluding are all familiar traits of both leaders.
The value, of course, of the Woodward-Bernstein book is its contemporaneity, its careful attention to the details of events so close in time. If we get a similar book out of the OML nightmare, we shall be lucky.
In due time, the truth will out, as they always say. Truth has an energy all its own, and is not something a human being or any group of persons can simply twirl in the air and set down at will. Thus, we the people still have truth on our side, if we will just honor it and swear by it.
As for me this year, I am reading books. Finally, now that Christmas is over I am actually reading books again, after tending to musical endeavors.
My main book at the moment is one I had never read: The Final Days, about the Nixon Watergate scandal, written by those reportorial sleuths Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. The book, published in 1976, covers those portions of 1973-74 in which the country slowly awoke to the festering pustule called Watergate.
So much about The Final Days registers now. While the Ukrainian fiasco is different from the Watergate crisis in many ways, the reactions of the President in both cases do have their similarities. The secretiveness and furtiveness, the self-dealing and self-deluding are all familiar traits of both leaders.
The value, of course, of the Woodward-Bernstein book is its contemporaneity, its careful attention to the details of events so close in time. If we get a similar book out of the OML nightmare, we shall be lucky.
In due time, the truth will out, as they always say. Truth has an energy all its own, and is not something a human being or any group of persons can simply twirl in the air and set down at will. Thus, we the people still have truth on our side, if we will just honor it and swear by it.
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