Which Reminds Me

I remember at college telling Dauna that I was on an airplane and they announced that someone famous was on board, Senator Kennedy and some other relative of his, but I did not go up front to see if that was true or not. Although my family probably wouldn't vote for him, that was interesting that famous people would be flying on a regular commercial airliner along with the common people. And then Dauna tells me some story about her family being somehow connected to that of Mary Jo Kopechne, the Russian woman who died in the fatal car accident at Chappaquidick. The Kennedys worked out a special deal with the Russians whereby Mary is defamed. So they are all agreed that it is well to be rid of Mary given her lousy reputation, and I suppose all the money also helped facilitate that agreement. So there is Dauna with her multi-million dollar settlement and what can anyone do about that? Mary can't come back from the dead to defend herself so whatever they say about her flies. The Kennedy-Russian deal is a one-way street in which they get all the money and everyone else is stuck with a mess. If we continue to let them degrade women in this way our culture has nowhere to go but downhill given that we already are the best place in the world for women generally speaking. Nowhere else do women enjoy such rights and privileges as here in the United States. South of the border everything is just downhill from here. So it is up to us to tell the Russsians we do not want to be hearing these wrongful stories about Mary. Something is wrong with this picture but I am not in a good position to do something about that.