Secret Societies

Comment on NY Times "The Lede: "Notes on the News"

"Secret Societies: Yale and Disneyland" by Mike Nizza

1. Both have "brands"? Bush on his tush (said from a heated coat hanger) and Disney from the time he was AWOL and kept in Fort Williams on Governors Island for missing the "Steamboat Willie" (Mickey Mouse captain)?

2. Both feature Sinfonians? (music fraternity members, a former 3 Cabinet post holder, 4 today, George B. (M.) Cortelyou, once a shorthand teacher in NYC who also was once Chairman of the Republican Party and early CEO of ConEd)

3. Both connected by the bones of "Mayflower" Puritan Isaac Allerton, of New Haven and powerful NYC merchant with a East River warehouse just outside the "Water Gate" in the "Wall" that became Wall Street ("foot of" once a slave market). Allerton's bones have been moved to the cemetery Yale University maintains. The Mayflower Madam made Disney come to New York, maybe Bush's father build Shea Stadium!

4. Either or neither nor are they run by women! Even Ralph Nader had an award from Yale Law but not my State Senator, Hillary Clinton.

5. Both cite "extended kinship" as truth also shown among the Apache by Morris Opler in his doctoral research at the U. of Chicago. He later went on to have three of his four briefs heard before the US Supreme Court for the rights of those Americans interned in the camps of World War II. None of those mentioned however have to my knowledge had a case heard a null connection.