On Bulls and their Leavings, not to mention the Campion brouhaha

Monday, Monday. La La. Dum de dum dum. La La. Dum de dum dum.
It must be a day for bulls. La la. Dum de dum dum...

Tonight is a bullfight at my favorite bullring, Pico dos Padres, tucked into the western hills of the San Juaquin Valley. You drive through orchards and dirt roads onto the bull ranch and end up in a little pocket of Portugal, surrounded by Azoran dairymen and their families out for a summer festa.

It promises to be a good one, if you are in the area (it is about an hour and half from the Bay Area, and it is a lovely drive).

Of course, you probably did not come here for bulls. Very few do. I think I have five readers who care about the bullfight stuff. Maybe seven.

You undoubtedly came here for an update on the Campion story. I am working on this, but mostly behind the scenes at this point, for several reasons, not the least of which is that I really want to make sure that my facts are correct. I have heard the same report from several people on certain issues, but need to hear from the other side. Even though I trust my sources (including Mr. Smithers, who has been commenting below), I want to hear it from the other side. In order to hear it from the other side, there are a couple of things that must happen first.

I have in my possession an email from Mr. Brumley, which is quite frankly pathetic. However, it was not addressed to me, but came to me from a couple of directions, so for now I suggest that you contact one of the Campion students to ask to read it (or if one of you lawyer-types from the law school that has very good reason to look with alarm at how Fr. Fessio's minions treat people can post a sound argument as to why I should just post the whole thing, with or without commentary, then I will do so).

Comment freely, and also feel free to contact me privately at EKeilholtz [at] a o l [full stop] c o m.

I am getting a pretty good story together, but I am a stickler for fact checking, and will be off to the bulls tonight, so check back later (and be warned - you might have to wade through a bullfight report before I get the thing posted. It goes with the territory - this is a bullfight blog more than it is an investigative reporting blog).