George Govus

Ain't it always the way... "Checks to Americans immediately." That's the ticket.

I nominate Philip Shenon's A Cruel And Shocking Act. Bought it remaindered, knowing nothing about him. Slogged my way through it and, when I was done, flipped the dust jacket around, so it wouldn't bother me when I saw it sitting on the shelf. Now it's The White Book. And I would get rid of it, except for the danger someone else could read it. Brilliant.

Gee, whiz, Sandy, take care. I've been a nigh unto a hermit for the past nearly seven years. I was just on the point of going out into the world again. D'oh! A scientist-type posted the following, information and informed speculation specific to reducing the likelihood of pneumonia-level infection: a thread posted on a pro-Bernie reddit, but having next to no connection to any politics; kind of like this thread! https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/ffemv7/more_thoughts_on_coronavirus_how_it_will_impact/

I don't think much of him, either. But polling back to 2016 backs him up on this one thing.

I dunno what Bernie was expecting. I think of him as pragmatic, principled, strategic, and not naive. But, I was expecting pretty much what we have seen. The establishment snowflakes have accrued all the delegates they could get, and so have melted away. Finally, now Warren, who he begged, twice, to run in the 2016 cycle, has been told she's damaged him enough, and so, too, she melts away. Kicked, even, to the curb by Biden. Owtch! The good news is, I hear the preponderance of the remaining primaries, with two-thirds of the delegates to be chosen, are closed to Republican meddling. And Nate Silver, apparently, still sees Sanders beating Trump, while Biden falls.

Paul, for what it's worth, as one Apple product user to another, my Mac OS desktop computer was able to download the "docx" document. Fortunately, I have installed on my machine a version of the Apple application called Pages, a Microsoft Word analog. Pages can open the "docx" document.

Gee whillikers, now I'll have to go watch the New Hampshire debate! I'm a Sanders supporter. And a JFK supporter. Mr. Santos, care to elaborate? What was stated as being JFK's position on Castro? Covert support for a counter-revolution? Overthrow the revolution by any means necessary? Not suffer him to live?

Hi, everybody! I just turned sixty-one. I was born in Atlanta, Georgia. My parents moved there from the Northeast. My father worked as a distribution manager for a textile manufacturer. Said manufacturer moved to the South to avoid paying union wages (i guess). And then, of course, by the seventies, textile manufacturers, like so many others, moved operations offshore so they could pay people even less. Ah, capitalism. But, I digress. My father was going to be an artist before World War II. Kept at it while raising his family and holding down his manager job. Kept getting fired because he stood up for his workers. We relocated to the Low Country in South Carolina. After his manufacturing career, Dad provided for us by selling watercolors and pen-and-ink drawings. My mother was a secretary at another textile manufacturer until it shuttered. She applied so I earned a corporate-sponsored four-year academic scholarship. I earned my bachelor’s degree at UNC-Chapel Hill studying studio art and American literature. Making a living from art seemed too risky to me, although my professor, Marvin Saltzman, urged me to stick with it. I took a staff job at the university. I retired from that job in 2013 and currently live on my state pension. I am sidling up to making a side-line in art, principally cartooning. I’ve been married, amiably divorced, and live now with my partner of twenty-eight years in our home in North Carolina. We raise dogs. We have three large ones. One of my earlier memories is of standing in our living room watching a black-and-white TV display John F. Kennedy’s funeral procession. Over the years I read a thing or two about his life, and mysteries to do with his death. I’ve always been able to accommodate ambiguity. But, strange goings-on during the 2016 presidential election campaign brought me back around to JFK. Earlier this year I was thrilled to find this forum attended by so many great researchers. I’ve been lurking — a lot — so, I’m hoping I'm not to blame for the recent "user spike" trouble! I'll donate to help out as I can.