http://www.julescrittenden.com/2008/12/30/wrongful-hurtfulness/ Forward Movement Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:04:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.julescrittenden.com/2008/12/30/wrongful-hurtfulness/comment-page-1/#comment-77878 RebeccaH Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:06:29 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/?p=9033#comment-77878 Gah! Kennedys, go away already! Gah! Kennedys, go away already!

]]> http://www.julescrittenden.com/2008/12/30/wrongful-hurtfulness/comment-page-1/#comment-77873 Jules Crittenden Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:25:09 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/?p=9033#comment-77873 Such a great idea, Dave of Surls, that of course they have already thought of it. There's even room for wannabe Kennedys at the top in the Duchy of Massachusetts, where the pretender John Forbes Kerry has been kept around as a coatholder and foil for several decades now. Ironically, though my Lord Ted's idiot son Patches was granted the Barony of Little Rhody, and territory was briefly held in far Maryland by the Lady Kathleen, problems similar to those now bedeviling the Dauphine in the Principality of New York also beset Sir Maxwell, son of the sainted Lord Robert, when he was compelled by arcane laws to seek the symbolic approval of the peasantry. His meandering blather oddly was seen as a disqualifying factor and he stood down. His elder brother, Sir Joe Kennedy II, though he did represent the family holdings in the House of Commons for a decade, declined to ascend to the governorship of the Massachusetts colony in 2002, due in no small part to a series of unfortunate events. Details of the dismissal of the mother of his children through the exercise of "Catholic gobbledygook," (an avenue that had been closed even to Henry VIII of England, no doubt to the Church's lasting regret) and the amorous affairs of his late brother Sir Michael with a fair maiden not his wife (and with the blush of youth fully present on her cheeks, raising the distasteful prospect of a legal nuisance that was abruptly terminated by Michael's fatal encounter with a tree during a high-spirited 60 mph game of "football" upon the slopes in distant Colorado) were seen as unavoidable annoyances and even potential obstacles in the course of seeking an otherwise sure coronation. Sadly, this once great dynasty, plagued by Shakespearean tragedy, long ago stepped away from the warrior pursuits that had exalted them in the eyes of the people and descended into disastrous wastrelism ... not that that should normally have been a hindrance, as evidenced by my Lord Ted's ascendance to the status of Liberal Lion in the House of Lords, holding firmly the title bestowed upon him by his late brother despite an unfortunate business upon, and off, a bridge that might have felled any lesser mortal in the field of public battle. The crusading spirit of the family's fallen knights once so greatly admired by the nation and the world has long since given way to pandering to the rabble. While this has proven an effective strategy for the patriarch of the clan, the wiser of the Kennedys have of late largely confined themselves to the nunnery of incidental good works and scholarship ... to include some end-time do-as-we say-not-as-we-do preaching ... but the temptation to dabble in affairs of state still sometimes proves irresistible. Such a great idea, Dave of Surls, that of course they have already thought of it. There’s even room for wannabe Kennedys at the top in the Duchy of Massachusetts, where the pretender John Forbes Kerry has been kept around as a coatholder and foil for several decades now. Ironically, though my Lord Ted’s idiot son Patches was granted the Barony of Little Rhody, and territory was briefly held in far Maryland by the Lady Kathleen, problems similar to those now bedeviling the Dauphine in the Principality of New York also beset Sir Maxwell, son of the sainted Lord Robert, when he was compelled by arcane laws to seek the symbolic approval of the peasantry. His meandering blather oddly was seen as a disqualifying factor and he stood down. His elder brother, Sir Joe Kennedy II, though he did represent the family holdings in the House of Commons for a decade, declined to ascend to the governorship of the Massachusetts colony in 2002, due in no small part to a series of unfortunate events. Details of the dismissal of the mother of his children through the exercise of “Catholic gobbledygook,” (an avenue that had been closed even to Henry VIII of England, no doubt to the Church’s lasting regret) and the amorous affairs of his late brother Sir Michael with a fair maiden not his wife (and with the blush of youth fully present on her cheeks, raising the distasteful prospect of a legal nuisance that was abruptly terminated by Michael’s fatal encounter with a tree during a high-spirited 60 mph game of “football” upon the slopes in distant Colorado) were seen as unavoidable annoyances and even potential obstacles in the course of seeking an otherwise sure coronation. Sadly, this once great dynasty, plagued by Shakespearean tragedy, long ago stepped away from the warrior pursuits that had exalted them in the eyes of the people and descended into disastrous wastrelism … not that that should normally have been a hindrance, as evidenced by my Lord Ted’s ascendance to the status of Liberal Lion in the House of Lords, holding firmly the title bestowed upon him by his late brother despite an unfortunate business upon, and off, a bridge that might have felled any lesser mortal in the field of public battle. The crusading spirit of the family’s fallen knights once so greatly admired by the nation and the world has long since given way to pandering to the rabble. While this has proven an effective strategy for the patriarch of the clan, the wiser of the Kennedys have of late largely confined themselves to the nunnery of incidental good works and scholarship … to include some end-time do-as-we say-not-as-we-do preaching … but the temptation to dabble in affairs of state still sometimes proves irresistible.

]]> http://www.julescrittenden.com/2008/12/30/wrongful-hurtfulness/comment-page-1/#comment-77872 Dave Surls Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:08:13 +0000 http://www.julescrittenden.com/?p=9033#comment-77872 Why not just create a few feudal fiefs for the Kennedys? Make Massachusetts a duchy or something. That way the ones who aren't fit to hold an elected office will have something to do. Why not just create a few feudal fiefs for the Kennedys? Make Massachusetts a duchy or something. That way the ones who aren’t fit to hold an elected office will have something to do.

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