PRENOTE: I have watched the first six hours of the Ken Burns series on the American Revolution.  For sure, I’ll watch the 12 hours.  It is an outstanding primer for the 250th anniversary of our stressed nation.

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November 18, 2025: The votes have now been taken in House and Senate and the results sent to the President for his promised signature.

The games begin.  I’ll amend this post as more information is published.  I will be surprised if the requested documents, including names, ever see the light of day beyond what the Epstein estate has released to Congress.

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In the interim, for anyone interested: while I don’t pretend to know how this sordid affair will play out in the end, I do remember another dramatic time in our political history: the Bill Clinton impeachment in 1998-99,  Most of you who are on this list remember the political street theater then.  You can use your own memory to fill in the blanks.

I decided to dust off the two documents I saved from then:  I offer them for your own reflection.  I am not equating Epstein with Clinton.  The issues are very, very different.  Here are the two Clinton era documents: Bill Clinton 1999 Rev. Miller; and Bill Clinton 1998 Lieberman

What I am asking folks to think about is how to approach the incessant discord to come, the moralizing, the recriminations, the lies, the everything.

I’d especially recommend the public sermon by Pastor Miller, who I think was, at the time interim or visiting pastor at House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul.  (I’m not Presbyterian, and I’ve never been in House of Hope, but the sermon was intended to get around.)

PS:  I have written and mailed, on November 18, my own letter to my two U.S. Senators Klobuchar and Smith and Congresswoman McCollum, and included a copy of the above two documents.