Dem Bones, Dem Bones... and The Magic of Yale

     listen up: the conversations here are with william f. buckley and ron rosenbaum--the first trying stylishly to obscure, the second earnestly to decipher, the strangest, almost unmentionable development in our politics: that the presidential campaign rivals george walker bush and john forbes kerry were each and both inducted, two years apart, into the most secret and powerful of the yale senior societies, skull and bones. we would not believe such a story unfolding anyplace else in the world--in zimbabwe, say, or turkey, or china. surely the response would be: are they kidding themselves about their "democracy"? or are they kidding us?      bush-cheney in 2000 was the first "all-oil" ticket in our history, though only a few, like kevin phillips, ...