Bob Lord A few notes from my week in Seattle (which overall was a great week): I finished one great book and started and finished another. The first, "Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, the Mafia, and the CIA," by Lamar Waldron, was a total slog to get through, but fascinating. He connects the plots on Castro, which … Read more
Posted by Bob Lord I'm really dating myself here, but it occurred to me today that a John Anderson candidacy today could attract a lot of support. OK, if you reached political awareness after 1980, Anderson was the independent in the 1980 race. He actually did pretty well, about 7% of the vote if memory … Read more
This may have been Chris Matthews best rant ever about my buddy Mitt:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews/#48408123
If you have five minutes or so, click on the link and check it out. Besides the hilarity of it, Matthews' rant is worth watching for his delivery, vocabulary and facial expressions, all extraordinary. Political commentary just doesn't get any better.
Posted by Bob Lord With the intense focus on the Aurora tragedy, little attention is being paid to George Zimmerman these days. And so whatever debate we have on gun control will be through the lens of Aurora, and Tucson, and Virginia Tech. There's nothing inappropriate about that, but it's too bad Zimmerman will not … Read more
I was all set to propound my views on gun control (like anyone really cares what some pseudopundit in bloggerland thinks), but took a detour to read Chris Hedges' latest column: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_careerists_20120723// I'll get back to the gun control issue in my next post, but this post is just a nod to Hedges' extraordinary insight, … Read more