The `cruel trilemma' of telling Mama all about it (by MONICA S. LEWINSKY)

Houston Chronicle ^ | May 13, 2003, 11:05AM | MONICA S. LEWINSKY

[Buffalo Bob]

You just can't make this stuff up...

[Tijeras_Slim]

If anyone should have learned to keep their mouth shut....

[Lunatic Fringe]

She sounds a lot better when she has something in her mouth....

[Capt. Jake]

Obviously the person who wrote this is not the same person whose conversations were taped by Linda Tripp.

[Larry Lucido]

It is completely unreasonable that discussions between parents and children are not protected --

It's completely unreasonable that you engaged in sexual conduct with a superior that would have gotten you and the boss fired in any other setting, and completely outrageous that you didn't confess all and spare your mother the need to testify to a grand jury.

[freedomlover]

"Mrs. Lewinsky, why is your daughter a tramp?"

[smiley]

Monica...please sit down.

[MinuteGal]

If this nubile genius wrote this all by herself I'll donate a thousand dollars to the Clinton Liebrary.

Leni

[Redcloak]

Huh, huh, huh, huh... She said "deep". Huh, huh, huh, huh....

[NativeNewYorker]

I was horrified and sickened. Not unlike many young women...

...by DIRT ex-POTUS.

[Buffalo Bob]

...you engaged in sexual conduct with a superior that would have gotten you and the boss fired in any other setting...

You're close Larry, very close. In the world of business, I have seen the Boss fired but not the gal.

[ASA Vet]

Mama must be so proud that a "Lewinsky," has become a common term for a particular sex act.

[tcostell]

Few people are aware that, in our country, parents can be forced to testify against their children and vice versa; there is no parent-child privilege under the aegis of the federal government. We have a husband-wife privilege, a doctor-patient privilege, an attorney-client privilege and even a privilege between priest and penitent. But no comparable confidential boundary is recognized for parent and child.

Define "forced".

I will give up my life for my child. I would do far worse for my child. So you think for a minute there is any amount of pressure the state can bring to bear on me that will make me betray my childs trust?!

Nonsense.

Of course this is easy for me to say now, my daughter is only three. I confess that my view may change as time goes on, but from here I can't see how.

[AnAmericanMother]

I'll join you. This was written by an attorney.

The key is the gratuitous reference to the law class at Columbia. Because the author has the wit to realize that he doesn't sound like Miss Ditz, he inserts a plausible explanation for where she found such high-falutin' language.

Somebody ought to ask her professor in that law course if HE wrote it. (Of course, he'll say he "reviewed" it for her "as a favor.") Betcha.

[Consort]

All of Clinton's women will go down in history.

[Jim Noble]

she's smart, too huh?

[HamiltonJay]

hahaha well like Donna Rice before her, looks like Lewinski has found her cause to attempt to legitimze herself.... well whatever floats Ms. Lewinski.

[NativeNewYorker]

...and "Monica" is short-hand, er, vernacular for loose-lipped, er, sexually pliable employee.

[NativeNewYorker]

...floats Ms. Lewinski...

Oh, it's a good bet she floats.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

If this nubile genius wrote this all by herself I'll donate a thousand dollars to the Clinton Liebrary.

"Monica" wrote: Unfortunately, their bills are still mired in the detritus of politics.

What? You don't believe words like "detritus" spring from her keyboard every few minutes? Cynic! ; )