All Things Profane and Sacred

I have a friend visiting from Switzerland this weekend. As we were hashing over some old times, she reminded me that I'm only about 3 or 4 degrees removed from GW Bush (a debillitatingly depressing moment, but I'm soldiering on). You see, the last time she was in the states for a visit, she drove down to where I was living with another friend and a guy we all went to high school with (a guy that I didn't particularly care for, but that's a whole other topic that I don't really want to get in to at the moment). This guy was Tommy Thompson's nephew. A few years later, Tommy Thompson became the secretary of health and human services for the newly enpresidented GW.