We seem to recall an issue of Paul Krassner's "The Realist" which proclaimed that the Republican and Democratic parties were twins separated at birth. At the time, it sounded absurd to us. It seems we may have had the opportunity to naively question Krassner about that belief in a composing room encounter in the early Seventies, but deadlines are relentless and we didn't have time to seize that chance. We now believe that Krassner was "spot-on" with that Sixties assertion.
If the next election is a choice between a Reagan Democrat incumbent and JEB, then maybe it's time to double check and see if we can still cross post our material on Digihitch because the extent of our efforts over the next two years will be along the lines of doing a random bit of voter trend spotting in the automobile museums of Germany. If that doesn't help Obama very much . . . oh well . . . at least there will be photos in the e-scrapbook to remind the writer when he gets old of just how much fun it was to do the "Europe on 5$ a day" routine in the second half of Obama's first (and only?) term in office.
This year Germany is celebrating the 125th year of automotive history. Sounds like a fun thing for this columnist to cover. Once, long before we sent our first news tip to Ray Wert, we talked our way into a top rate automobile museum on a day when it was closed. We'd like to think Mr. Hearst would give us a "well done" on that stunt.
W. A. Swanberg (Ibid page 57) wrote that Hearst regarded journalism as: "an enchanted playground in which giants and dragons were to be slain simply for the fun of the thing." Wouldn't it be funny if Hunter S. Thompson read that book before choosing journalism for his career?
Yeah, it was great fun the one time we saw our efforts mentioned on Mike's Blog Report. It made us feel like we might some day get a membership card and bragging rights that we were "in with the "in' crowd," but it was more fun when Time magazine's Reagan era White House correspondent entered our apartment in Marina del Rey (many years ago) and exclaimed: "My God, Bob, it is a hovel!" We'll have to work that moment into our memoirs . . . if we ever get around to finishing that project.
Would it be funny if a TSA employee said "turn your head and cough" during a pat-down?
The Daily Curser used to plug good blog postings. They are long gone, but still listed on a list of other blogs at a certain high profile liberal pundit aggregator site. Did the Cursor ever mention our efforts? What blogger holds the record for "talking shop" with the most winners of a Pulitzer Prize? Is four a good number?
Swanberg succinctly captured the hippie commune non-judgmental democratic atmosphere of a newsroom (Ibid page 70) in one sentence: "The Examiner had drinkers of all categories, moderate, steady, intermittent and inert, and the staff was so flexibly arranged that when a member fell from grace another would take his place without comment."
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