13 Quotes by Donald Jeffries

Try this." O'Grady smiled. "It's the only thing we drink. It'll warm your insides." "What is it?" Asked the ever cautious Waldo. "We call it the Forest Flaming Special. Go ahead-drink up." "Well, okay...." Waldo lifted the cup and nearly dropped it when saw his name printed clearly on the side. "We've been expecting you." Explained Fred, beginning to laugh.

Gossip columnists patrol their mundane arena with the same sort of mysterious merit the advice-givers do. Plainly put, how does anyone become a gossip columnist? I can't simplify it down to a lower scale than that. Are there universities that offer courses in gossip writing? How about plain old Gossip 111? Are there that many literate people who could not write a gossip column? What then, qualifies the chosen few above the rest?

I have come to the conclusion that there has never been an honest investigation by any authoritative body in the history of the world.

Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country?

Waldo nodded and looked at the policeman's face. Somehow the water that was dripping from the bill of his cap made him appear almost human. Nah, Waldo thought, it would take a lot more than water to wash that look off.

Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008 was treated more like acoronation, if not an intense religious ritual, by the establishment press anda fawning, glassy-eyed majority of Americans. Anyone who questionedanything at all about Obama was deemed to be a “hater” or, even worse,a racist.

There are two schools of thought about Chappaquiddick: liberalsgenerally tend to ignore the subject and resent any mention of it, andconservatives believe that Teddy was directly responsible for the deathof Mary Jo Kopechne and lied about it, and the “liberal” media helped tocover up his crime. The facts suggest a third alternative: Chappaquiddickrepresented the political assassination of Edward Kennedy, orchestrated bythe same forces responsible for the deaths of John and Robert Kennedy.

The trial of hapless Timothy McVeigh shared many things in commonwith the “trials” of other scapegoats from the past. Like Bruno RichardHauptmann, James Earl Ray, and Sirhan Sirhan, McVeigh received ineptlegal representation. Stephen Jones presented almost no defense, restingafter only three and a half days and just twenty-five witnesses. Evenestablishment talking head attorney Alan Dershowitz would criticize theincompetent defense McVeigh received.

There is no question that, if John F. Kennedy Jr. had lived, he would havebeen a formidable political candidate. But his premature death prevented usfrom ever knowing if he indeed would have publicly confronted the deathsof his father and uncle, and other related issues.