The Writer's Life 3/16 - Donald, Ed & Ben

With the Special Counsel's Russia collusion probe going nowhere, Robert Mueller wants the Trump Organization to submit all its financial records. If the swamp gets the President, it will be because of sexual transgression or, more likely, shady business practices. Trump has been in business for almost 50 years. He's probably had to deal with bad actors and may have succumbed to dollar temptation as he has to sexual. My hunch is the investigation will limp along until the November elections. If the Dems regain control of Congress, as it appears likely, I don't see how Trump can survive the onslaught - unless the alleged crimes of FBI and DOJ officials is proven.

RIP Ed Charles, 84, member of the 1969 Miracle Mets. He platooned at third base with Wayne Garrett, and was loved by his teammates and the fans. Bob Murphy, one of the three members of the original broadcast crew, would show his affection by saying: "Never hang a slider to The Glider." In eight big league seasons, three with the Amazin's, he hit .263 and belted 86 homers. Well done, sir.

With the wind still kicking up a fuss at my usual nook, I ventured to an alternate site and had good luck. My thanks to the woman who purchased Five Cents, although I suspect it was an act of sympathy rather than real interest. Thanks also to the middle age Latina who bought four CD's, and to the gentleman who, after careful browsing, selected Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School by Benjamin Franklin and Carl Japikse. The latter, according to his bio at Amazon, is a modern writer whose "works are designed to stimulate thoughtfulness and help people shed the shackles of prudery, superstition, and careless thinking." Many of his books are issued under a pseudonym, such as his parody The Zen of Farting by a student of master Reepah Gud Wan. For decades he has collaborated with an MD on the topics of the human mind, creativity, personal growth and human psychology. He runs his own publishing houses and has overseen reprints of the work of Alexander Pope, Richard Hovey, H.G. Wells, Talbot Mundy, Joan Grant, A.E. van Vogt, Dion Fortune, and Henry van Dyke. As for Mr. Franklin, here's a snippet from something I found at teachingamericanhistory.org, culled from a long 1781 letter to The Royal Academy of Brussels: "My Prize Question therefore should be, To discover some Drug wholesome & not disagreable, to be mix’d with our common Food, or Sauces, that shall render the natural Discharges of Wind from our Bodies, not only inoffensive, but agreable as Perfumes." I'd always read that he was quite a character.

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