Lin-Lin the Time Traveler
Einstein would be in awe of Lin-Lin's ability to bend the laws of space and time, not to mention the poor battered truth. Harken, dear reader, to the latest feat of the Amazin' Lin-Lin, She Who Would Lead the Town of Greenwich:
"Lin created Kids in Crisis, which has since helped thousands of children at risk of abuse and neglect and their families."
Or so it says prominently on Lin-Lin's web site. There's only one small problem with this, dear reader: Lin-Lin moved to Town in 1983. Kids in Crisis was created in 1978.
Oh, well, Lin-Lin is well-known around Town for playing fast and loose with the truth. Recently, she has been blaming her opponent for the world-wide financial meltdown of the past year or so. And pretty soon, no doubt, she will be telling us that she co-invented the Internet along with Al Gore.
It seems ludicrous, dear reader, that someone as mendacious and unreliable and inexperienced as Lin-Lin should be putting herself forward as a serious political candidate in this day and age. But maybe she figures that the voters of Greenwich are merely a bunch of sheep waiting to be led around by the nose, and that they don't really expect experience or integrity from their elected officials.
Is Lin-Lin right? Have the townsfolk of Greenwich become so uncritical in their thinking that Lin-Lin can spout her nonsense and nobody says boo to her?
In a way, it would be amusing if Lin-Lin somehow managed to get herself elected as First Selectman. Your scribe would give it no more than six months before the first petitions began to circulate to impeach her. And wouldn't that be a fun spectacle? Your scribe is unable to find any provisions of the Town Charter that might cover such an eventuality, but no doubt the Legislative and Rules Committee of the RTM could draft some suitable language for the purpose.
And then the RTM could enact the legislation, which might well include appointing itself as the body to hear and decide upon the charges. Such charges might include malfeasance, nonfeasance, cronyism, or just downright plain old incompetence. And then all work of Town government would stop for the weeks or months that it would take to address and resolve the charges against Lin-Lin.
On second thought, maybe it wouldn't be so amusing after all....
Update:
Since the link sent by "Anonymous Bob" appears not to work in the Comments section of this post, your scribe hereby moves Bob's message and the scribal reply up into the body instead:
2 Comments:
AnonymousBob said...
Hmmm...
Kids in Crisis wasn't actually called "Kids in Crisis" until 1995 though:
http://www.kidsincrisis.org/content/publish/aboutkic.shtml
October 23, 2009 1:38 PM
Bill Clark said...
Thanks for the link, Bob. You're right: the name change came in 1995. So maybe Lin-Lin could take credit for being around when Kids in Crisis took on its present name. But "creating" it? I don't think so....I hear that the folks at Kids in Crisis have made a number of telephone calls to Lin-Lin asking that she remove this specious claim from her web site. I am further told that Lin-Lin has not bothered to return any of them....
October 23, 2009 1:48 PM
"Lin created Kids in Crisis, which has since helped thousands of children at risk of abuse and neglect and their families."
Or so it says prominently on Lin-Lin's web site. There's only one small problem with this, dear reader: Lin-Lin moved to Town in 1983. Kids in Crisis was created in 1978.
Oh, well, Lin-Lin is well-known around Town for playing fast and loose with the truth. Recently, she has been blaming her opponent for the world-wide financial meltdown of the past year or so. And pretty soon, no doubt, she will be telling us that she co-invented the Internet along with Al Gore.
It seems ludicrous, dear reader, that someone as mendacious and unreliable and inexperienced as Lin-Lin should be putting herself forward as a serious political candidate in this day and age. But maybe she figures that the voters of Greenwich are merely a bunch of sheep waiting to be led around by the nose, and that they don't really expect experience or integrity from their elected officials.
Is Lin-Lin right? Have the townsfolk of Greenwich become so uncritical in their thinking that Lin-Lin can spout her nonsense and nobody says boo to her?
In a way, it would be amusing if Lin-Lin somehow managed to get herself elected as First Selectman. Your scribe would give it no more than six months before the first petitions began to circulate to impeach her. And wouldn't that be a fun spectacle? Your scribe is unable to find any provisions of the Town Charter that might cover such an eventuality, but no doubt the Legislative and Rules Committee of the RTM could draft some suitable language for the purpose.
And then the RTM could enact the legislation, which might well include appointing itself as the body to hear and decide upon the charges. Such charges might include malfeasance, nonfeasance, cronyism, or just downright plain old incompetence. And then all work of Town government would stop for the weeks or months that it would take to address and resolve the charges against Lin-Lin.
On second thought, maybe it wouldn't be so amusing after all....
Update:
Since the link sent by "Anonymous Bob" appears not to work in the Comments section of this post, your scribe hereby moves Bob's message and the scribal reply up into the body instead:
2 Comments:
AnonymousBob said...
Hmmm...
Kids in Crisis wasn't actually called "Kids in Crisis" until 1995 though:
http://www.kidsincrisis.org/content/publish/aboutkic.shtml
October 23, 2009 1:38 PM
Bill Clark said...
Thanks for the link, Bob. You're right: the name change came in 1995. So maybe Lin-Lin could take credit for being around when Kids in Crisis took on its present name. But "creating" it? I don't think so....I hear that the folks at Kids in Crisis have made a number of telephone calls to Lin-Lin asking that she remove this specious claim from her web site. I am further told that Lin-Lin has not bothered to return any of them....
October 23, 2009 1:48 PM
posted by Bill Clark | 10/23/2009 12:00:00 PM
2 Comments:
Hmmm...
Kids in Crisis wasn't actually called "Kids in Crisis" until 1995 though: http://www.kidsincrisis.org/content/publish/aboutkic.shtml
FYI
Thanks for the link, Bob. You're right: the name change came in 1995. So maybe Lin-Lin could take credit for being around when Kids in Crisis took on its present name. But "creating" it? I don't think so....
I hear that the folks at Kids in Crisis have made a number of telephone calls to Lin-Lin asking that she remove this specious claim from her web site. I am further told that Lin-Lin has not bothered to return any of them....
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