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Although yours truly made mention of the James Auchincloss matter a few days ago, and even AP picked it up a little bit, it took days for sites like Gawker to run with it with stuff like this:
Oh well, "His willingness to talk about famous relatives has made him something of a persona non grata in Kennedy circles over the years." They must be pretty close to cutting him out of the family entirely. First it was the talking to the media, now it's the child porn. Only one more strike, James!
If the family really cuts him out, it won't matter. The media will go apeshit over yet another Kennedy "scandal," even if Auchincloss isn't a Kennedy except by proxy.
If the allegations are true, it is a hell of a note to disgrace the family in the worst possible way.
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I wrote at length about Secretariat yesterday, but I didn't hear about this tragic story at Belmont Park last month when a four-year-old colt, City On Line, crashed into the statue of Secretariat and fractured a leg and had to be euthanized.
What is truly ironical about this is the horse was trained by Hall of Famer H. Allen Jerkins, the man whose horses Onion and Prove Out defeated Secretariat in 1973 in the Whitney and the Woodward stakes races, respectively.
It was almost as if Big Red got his revenge.
