05-09-2016, 11:36 AM
I saw a request for "Obituaries". Those go back to Johnny Carson, who died in 2005. We have had everything from Margaret Thatcher to "Socks" (a pet of the Clinton family during its time in the White House). With me involved, not all of them are respectful (you probably saw the obituary that I had on the late and unlamented "Purple Witch" of the old East Germany, Margot Honecker). That said, I have put in people as famous as Ted Kennedy and Andy Griffith and someone as obscure as a near-neighbor of ours who may have been one of the last living people to remember Nicholas II, Tsar of all the Russias, as her ruler as a child. We have entertainers, sports stars, authors, musicians, politicians, entrepreneurs, academics, artists -- and out-and-out criminals.
Yes, Chemical Ali is significant, however disgusting were his genocidal crimes. Bad people make history, too.
Yes, Chemical Ali is significant, however disgusting were his genocidal crimes. Bad people make history, too.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.