Once upon a political scientist.
The Insanity of Commenting on News Articles
Or what is Meta for?
That is me looking to the left. It’s my natural position.
How it started.
My parents had us reading newspapers and watching Walter Cronkite by 1968. I was seven.
Back then the lead articles were always Vietnam or civil rights, Apollo space missions or Nixon.
Those were the days when parents could send their children throughout a sprawling suburban neighborhood handing out flyers for the Republican candidate for president with no concern for their safety or the stain on their souls.
What made the political work special to my Rockefeller Republican parents was that when we moved into that neighborhood in 1965 from Arlington, VA, our new county executive was Spiro Agnew.
Agnew jumped from that spot to governor of Maryland to Veep candidate in three years.
He spent enough time as governor to get involved in shady deals that made him the first Veep to be indicted while in office.
[N.B. If you are a Futurama fan, you know Agnew as the headless body that does the bidding of Nixon’s head.]
