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February 16, 2007

The Law of Karma

by AltHippo @ 2:11 pm. Filed under Life in D.C.

Sometimes life has a nice syncronicity to it.

I recall a drive down from Boston to DC in October of 2003. I was coming down for a job interview for a job I ultimately wouldn’t get. Meanwhile, I was going to make myself at home, and get some pleasure reading in. I picked up John Dean’s Blind Ambition, his first-hand account of the Watergate years, his come-uppance, and ultimately the time he served in Federal prison.

At the time news was coming out sporadically over the leak of a covert agent’s name by someone in the White House. While the details were quite different from Dean’s account the story of the Plame leak was the stuff of Watergate: the abuse of power to serve the ends of those who don’t believe they’re bound by the same rules as everyone else. It’s the privilege of nobility as described by Hans Christian Anderson’s evil half-brother: if the king is naked, but says he’s wearing a charcoal grey Armani, then the king is wearing a charcoal gray Armani.

Meanwhile, back in Cambridge, Chengda and Andy, two comics I knew, guest-hosted the Lizard Lounge Comedy Hour, a weekly comedy show I ran at the time. While this had been an important part of my life, I wanted to do a show that was more politically oriented. It was the Joe Wilson/ Valierie Plame story of power, revenge, and its ensuing consequences that was drawing me to Washington.

I mention this because of last night’s Drinking Liberally book signing with Marcy Wheeler. The first few guests were showing up when who should appear but none other than Joe Wilson himself.

It was one of those evenings when what had gone around, felt like it had come back around.

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