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 What's Latin for Hiatus?
* OK, this is the last time I ever intend to write about Monica Lewinsky. I lasted exactly seven minutes before I changed the channel from the Barbara Walters interview to a rerun of The Godfather in which people did evil things to each other but didn't try to blame everyone else for their condition.
* Let me, immodestly, speak for all men in America when I say, "Huh?"
* It was as if "Lolita" had been written by Vladimir Nabokov's wife right after she had seen Georgie Girl which she, because there were no sub-titles, thought was about a worker in a cosmetics factory in T'bilisi.
* The best one-liner of the week was by John McLaughlin. There was a discussion about the admonition by RNC Chairman Jim Nicholson that GOP Presidential hopefuls obey Ronald Reagan's "11th Commandment" - Thou Shalt Not Speak Ill of Another Republican. McLaughlin said "Why not? The Democrats have written off the first 10."
* Monica's book may well break in at number one on the NY Times non-fiction list. If it does guess which book will be dropped to second place? Tom Brokaw's "The Greatest Generation." What does that tell us about us?
* There is a headline on Reuters this morning which reads: "New Clues Show Life On Mars May Have Been Possible." OK, now we know how MEN got to earth.
* This will be the last Mullings for a while. The first Mullings was written just about a year ago, March 13, 1998 and was titled, "So Many Trees, So Little Time."
* Since then we have expanded the distribution method of faxing them to a few reporters and friends to e-mail, web sites, shameless self-promotion on cable television, tee-shirts, bill boards, car-toppers on taxi cabs, any college 10 watt radio station which could afford the long-distance phone call, carelessly leaving them behind in downtown Washington, DC restaurants, on subways and busses; and dropping them like leaflets from a B-29 bomber over Southern France in 1944.
* I have written these things more-or-less three times a week for a year and there is some fear - great fear, in fact - that without The Scandal I will have to actually read the news and editorial sections of the five newspapers which show up on my desk every morning, not just scan the headlines and make up the what I think the story might be about as I do now.
* We'll give the forests a chance to regenerate and the internet geeks a chance to increase available bandwidth for a while.
* It will also give me a chance to recharge my batteries so the quality of Mullings is not strained.
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