Here in Cape Cod, as everyone looks back on the life of Ted Kennedy, the tone, has been, to put it mildly, approving. It’s bad form to speak ill of the recently dead, so one has hardly heard a peep about the darker aspects of Mr. Kennedy’s life, or the skeletons in his closet (not to mention his car). But, with a hat tip to our friend Mike Zaharee, here’s a peep, from the irascible Mark Steyn.
I imagine there is a family in Swiftwater, PA, whose pain is eased to hear at least one voice, in this ambient hagiographic din, that speaks for their little girl.
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As you sit in the sand gazing at the unspoilt horizon off Cape Cod and trying really, really hard to think of something nice to say about the late Senator, you might find the answer in this from John Stossel:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/johnstossel/2009/08/ted-kennedy-an-environmental-hero.html
Even a humbug is sometimes right!
Thanks, David. Actually, Mr. Stossel has a place here in Wellfleet; I met him by chance at the town dump a while back, and had the opportunity to chat with him. A sensible fellow.
The town dump. It’s where all the best people go to see and be seen! I understand the late Senator was a frequent visitor as he surreptitiously dumped his cases of empty Chivas Regal bottles.