Thanks for that.
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Joseph Wilson is uncertain how events will shake out, though he personally is doing just fine. He recently told a San Francisco audience that he wasn't interested in public office, being someone who had "too many wives" (Valerie's his third) and, when young, took "too many drugs. And, yes, I did inhale."
With a best-selling book, The Politics of Truth, and a lucrative speaking tour under way, Wilson's now making a living off Karl Rove's apparent indiscretions. "I've got a great life, and what I'm doing now is the right thing to do," he allows when I ask if he wouldn't mind being back in the enveloping mist of the Olympic Peninsula, as he was in the mid-1970s, out of the spotlight, crafting a mountainside retreat. "Once a carpenter, always a carpenter," Wilson says, brightening. He turns 56 next month. "I guess if things don't work out, I can always put my tool belt back on."
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Joseph Wilson speaks at 7:30 p.m. Wed., Oct. 26, at Town Hall (1119 Eighth Ave.); $35. His talk is sponsored by Foolproof Performing Arts, 206-325-2993, www.foolproof.org.