Your winnings, Monsieur.

It almost seems as if all of his politics is one long apology for actually having indicated that war is bad with “Ender’s Game” and the rest of the series that spawned from it.

Basically he’s a closeted self-hating liberal, or a closeted self-hating gay.

Or he could just be a tool outside of his creative world, which actually gets something closer to 100% of his higher self.

Whatever. In any case, he and Michael Crichton should just stick to writing novels. At least there they can shape the worlds so as to fit their stories, and not hurt our brains by mistaking their fantasies for our realities…

Are there any other Democrats Orson supports…

Well, he supported this universally beloved former Democratic senator. Remember him?

Orson, buddy, come on back to Earth. The weather is usually nice and there are lots of good restaurants.

It was after the Evil Empire speech, during NATO exercises. (Sept ‘83?) . The NATO exercises were deliberately much more extensive, and aggressive than usual (with this aspect unannounced?) . That, combined with RR’s rhetoric and Soviet paranoia , had them thinking we might be going to launch a first strike, so contemplating doing it first themselves.

The NATO exercises were Able Archer.

It really was an extreme crisis, though the public was unaware of it.

So that’s news to you too, eh Matt? ;)

According to Oleg Gordievsky , Hiss was a spy.

Fifty years ago, most people thought Hiss was a spy. Thirty years ago, after the flimsy evidence he was tried on was made public, most people thought he wasn’t a spy. Ten years ago, after the release of the Venona decryptions, most people again thought he was a spy. Most people still do today, though there are dissenters. Nothing definite has turned up from the Soviet archives, so it’s still not absolutely confirmed.

I’m no expert on this stuff, but from what little I know it looks like he probably was. I could be wrong.

The bigger revelation IMHO was that Ronnie Ray-Gun almost (unknowingly) started WWIII.

How many times? Is this in reference to the “We begin bombing in five minutes” speech, or something else?

You clearly haven’t had access to Smiling Mortician’s Wingnut-to-Human dictionary. See, by “root out and convict”, he means “harass beyond the point of reason, stripping all dignity even from the process itself, solely for short term political gain”, and by “many communist sympithizers in government, hollywood and academia”, he means “anybody who disagrees with me, or would make a useful political pivot.”

Try the substitution sometime. It works almost every time. No translation is ever perfect, but once you get the feel of it, Wingnutese is a cinch. Just point and blame.

This all, of course, about the guy that elicited the question, on the Senate floor, “You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” I believe we are all aware of the answer history has writ, “Sadly, no.”

“So Fox News is profiting from the love and loneliness and fear of our military people?”

Whether or not Hiss actually was a spy is still a matter of controversy.

According to Oleg Gordievsky , Hiss was a spy . (The damn book was the size of a dictionary!, and parts of it, about as enthralling ) . The bigger revelation IMHO was that Ronnie Ray-Gun almost (unknowingly) started WWIII. Supposedly, some backdoor communication by less crazy people, including, in small part, the author, prevented it. A self-serving assertion, to be sure, but entirely made-up?????