In Defense of Doing Nothing

The weather-beaten, hand-painted sign nailed to a tree on State Road in Vineyard Haven is about the last tangible memento on the Island harking back to Bill Clinton’s time of troubles. For me, it remains a living symbol of the Monica-mad summer of 1998. The lettering on the lobster-trap-sized placard is faded but the defiant take-that-Ken-Starr message remains unequivocal: “Hoorah for Bill.”