Gore Vidal

Wonderful.

In the Post, he talks about Gore Vidal, who's a great novelist, but like two years after 9-11, he's saying, we don't know who did this.

We have no idea.

And just as far as that goes, initially, Osama bin Laden denied it.

whose handle is 420birthdayboys, LOL.

It's so funny that in social media you get Joyce Carol Oates, whose Twitter handle is Joyce Carol Oates, responding to 420birthdayboys like she's Gore Vidal responding to Norman Mailer in the pages of the New York Review of Books.

But anyway, Emo Venico comments on Wilson's attack on the Nolan film by saying, quote, This is tough, because on one hand, I deeply respect Wilson as a classicist and enjoy her translation of The Odyssey.

But on the other, this review is grounded in such bad faith and filled with outrageous takes that make me feel like she would have been hostile to any adaptation.

it's my worst habit as a reader when my friends put a book out i go straight to the

acknowledgment oh right i heard a great story about the uh index You know, because that's another way that people will seek their own glories to see where they're referenced.

And I want to say that it was a book by Gore Vidal.

And he put in there, in the slot that would be alphabetically, it would come to the space that would be reserved for Norman Mailer.

But George W. Bush, of course, is the person who, after being ensconced in what is still to this day an illegitimate election, If you remember, the federal government through the Supreme Court interfered in the counting of votes from the state of Florida and awarded the state of Florida's electoral votes to George W. Bush in a decision that they said shouldn't be used as precedent for any subsequent decision.

That would be Bush versus Gore.

George W. Bush, one of his early acts was to put in place John Boy Roberts.

So let's be clear, just because he hugs Michelle Obama or gives her officer candy at funerals or even hugs her at the opening of the National Congress, Museum for African-American History and Culture.

They picked up a few cheap bargains.

Iraq, a lot of Iraqis on the, no, wasn't any Iraqis on the plane.

So in other words, if you go back 25 years, you will remember that as is the case, whether it be Chris Hedges or Gore Vidal or anybody else writing about war.

I think it was Chris Hedges that wrote a little book in the way, war is a force that gives us meaning.

he was a very, very public intellectual figure at a time at which there were ver- there actually were public intellectual figures.

This was when, this was when Gore Vidal and, and William Buckley were having debates on television, and that was a kind of thing that people would do on, on TV-

Yeah

... and in public.