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April 06, 2016
On Wisconsin: POTUS primaries, healthy defeats & real life.
While Trump and Clinton are my favorite GOP and Democratic Party candidates, I think it's good that both suffered defeats in Wisconsin yesterday. Hey, this is America, campers. Each POTUS election every four years should be a horserace. If possible there should be no early-on pre-convention shoe-in in either major party. Healthier.
Posted by JD Hull at 12:03 PM | Comments (0)
April 03, 2016
Heroes: WFB2
He was not always my favorite thinker--but William Frank Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) was one of the greatest men in my lifetime. I saw him speak in the 1970s and he wowed even die-hard New Deal lefties in the overwhelmingly liberal audience with his wit and intelligence, appearing on campus a few weeks after Hunter Thompson. He was smart, funny, warm. And a fun kind of arrogant. An American standout from an early age.
Posted by JD Hull at 11:24 AM | Comments (0)