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Lots of interesting stuff today…

18 January 2005

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A new book claiming that Sirhan Sirhan was a Manchurian Candidate-style hypnotized patsy is getting some attention. This theory (Sirhan is hypnotized, comes in shooting wildly to distract from the real shooter standing behind RFK) has been around forever. When put with the forensic evidence–too many shots, different calibers, and the fatal shot coming from [...]

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This fight’s been going on for decades

22 November 2004

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To mark the 41st anniversary of his assassination, I thought I’d pass along a quote from JFK. It struck me when I read it, how similar the battle lines were, then and now. “If by a ‘Liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone [...]

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Checking in…

5 September 2004

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Kate and I have spent most of the last couple of weeks in Lakeside, Michigan, sunning our writing-ravaged bodies in the last rays of summer. And there’s no internet at my parents’ house, so blogging has been forced to a back seat. I LOVE it up there. It’s pretty, quiet, full of good, fresh food, [...]

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A Talk with Mort Sahl

25 August 2003

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Just read an interview with satirist Mort Sahl, still pissed off at age 76. He’s always been right on the beam about the Kennedy assassination, the canary in the coal mine; I’m not talking specifics, I’m talking about knowing that something was fishy and politicized and “spun.” And it wasn’t simply JFK-worship, either: He got [...]

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