Easy lessons

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Friday, May 8, 2009 - 6:50 PM Share

Some lessons are hard to discern. Some aren't.

The lesson of Padre Alberto, I think, is that if you are a high-profile Catholic priest with a TV show, you shouldn't stick your hand in a woman's bikini bottom while lying alongside her on a beach, even if it is OK with her.

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May 9, 2009

Another sign . . .

. . . of the dumbing down of everything. Back in the day, they taught you how to avoid doing that in seminary.

 

Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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