<p>Hugo’s description of Javert comes to mind:</p>
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<p>“Mr. Clinton was not impeached for having sex with Ms. Lewinsky. He was impeached for committing perjury during testimony about the affair in a separate sexual harassment suit…”</p>
<p>I was just waiting for someone to bring up this point. In fact, I amended my original language to leave out any mention of the fact that Clinton was supposedly prosecuted for “the lie.” I still believe that any reputable professional who would agree to be the special prosecutor of such a case had to be either blinded by ambition or blinded by some type of religious/partisan zealotry. It was harmful to our country to have gone through that exercise. I believe that whole ugly drama contributed greatly to the polarization and disappearance of comity that we see in our leadership today. Both sides.</p>
<p>Not to mention the utter waste of our tax dollars.</p>
<p>A quote from the Malibu Times, with regard to Mr. Starr’s role as lead attorney for Proposition 8 which sought to ban same sex marriage in California:</p>
<p>“They automatically associate Pepperdine with Ken Starr [being pro Prop 8],” Karan said. “I have a $200,000 degree I pay for every month. I feel like the value of my investment has been lowered and the school’s not doing anything about it.”</p>
<p>“People know that I went to Pepperdine and know Starr is dean of the School of Law because it’s all over the news,” Black said. “I definitely have gotten a few jabs but I just say I wasn’t there when he was there. It’s sad that I have to defend my law school education whenever it comes up.”</p>
<p>Personally, I would never attend Baylor nor would my kids, I think. We’re not Baptist, and I think the environment would be too much of an adjustment for us. As for Mr. Starr, he’s too much of a neo-conservative for me. He’s attended some pretty good schools- GW, Duke, Brown- but doesn’t seem to have any educational administration experience. I suppose Baylor feels pretty good to have him.</p>
<p>Well, this is a book that I’d like to read:
“The Death of American Virtue” by Ken Gormley </p>
<p>[Non-fiction:</a> "The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr, by Ken Gormley](<a href=“http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10045/1035230-148.stm]Non-fiction:”>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10045/1035230-148.stm)</p>
<p>Every source I’ve come across agrees that Judge Starr is a great mentor to young people. One of his proteges from the Whitewater era has become a superb member of the federal bench in Chicago. It does not surprise me to hear that he’s taking jobs where he leads ever-larger groups of students.</p>
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<p>Starr is a law school dean. In relative terms, that would give him whole lot more experience than going from, say, a junior law maker to a commander in chief unless being a university president is much harder than being the US president. I am no fan of Ken Starr’s but cut the guy some slacks… I am just saying.</p>
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<p>How is it supposedly? That was one of the charges the House specifically voted on to impeach.</p>
<p>Ken Starr and Baylor? Well, all I can say is: they deserve each other.</p>
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Yep- at Pepperdine, I just heard that on the news this afternoon. I guess that’s something!</p>