(Bush's) Foul Play (LTTE in the New York Times Book Review, 12/4/05

[Vitruvius]

To the Editor:

The review of "The Chosen," by Jerome Karabel (Nov. 6), is accompanied by a photograph of George W. Bush playing rugby at Yale. As a longtime rugby player, I had heard the president had played rugby and was curious about the type of player he had been. Section 10.4 of the Rugby Lawbook states: "A player must not tackle (or try to tackle) an opponent above the line of the shoulders. A tackle around the opponent's neck or head is dangerous play." The photo shows the future president clearly violating the law for foul play, and tackling another player by the neck. Although rugby is considered a rough game, the laws on foul play are written to protect someone from unnecessarily getting hurt. Perhaps George W. Bush's experiences at Yale provided the framework for his presidency.

Tom Rubey
Woodbury, Minn

(No link available, complete letter is one paragraph, per above.)

[prole_for_peace]

1. be-u-ti-ful...

that was a glimpse into things to come.

[dusmcj]

2. in case you thought the "loafstyles of the rich and indolent" crowd

got ahead by acting like Dudley Do-Right, think again. Not for nothing that the captains of industry from which gramps Prescott stemmed were known for busting heads to stop unions, etc., nor that the rumors about Rockefeller, Bush et al machinations in globalist conspiracies persist despite vigorous poo-pooing. Add to that a larding of Poppy's thinly veiled inadequacy and need to respond to the fear of being called a wimp with posed hardness, and a dash of Texas country brutality, and it ain't too confusing how Doober might not always make the right choices.

[Cha]

3. Thanks for this..you betcha

it's a sign of things to come..that and the earlier "blowing up frogs with dynamite when he was a kid" learning nasty tricks at his mother's knee.