Tuesday Reads

 I have been completely preoccupied with other things, especially a death of somebody I cared out, and therefore I ignored this blog for almost three days.

There hasn't been much in the way of news to comment on, anyway.

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Obituary:  Actor Dean Stockwell, 85, died on Sunday.  He died of natural causes.  Beginning in childhood, he had one of the longest careers in show business, with a career of 70 years and some 200 films.  He was also seen often on television:

Stockwell was born on March 5, 1936, in North Hollywood. By the time he was 7, he was on Broadway, launching a career as a child actor. He appeared in Anchors Aweigh with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly; Kim with Errol Flynn; Gentleman’s Agreement, which landed him a Golden Globe Award; and, most notably, in the controversial 1948 movie The Boy with the Green Hair.

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I think any honest appraisal of the Virginia Democratic Party massacre of 2021 has to mention the outrage by parents and the general public over the gender identity b.s. in schools.

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Another obit:  Former senator Max Cleland of Georgia, 79, a Vietnam vet who lost both legs and an arm in battle there, has died.  He died of CHF.

Snip:

Cleland was a U.S. Army captain in Vietnam when he lost his right arm and two legs while picking up a fallen grenade in 1968. He blamed himself for decades, until he learned that another soldier had dropped it. He also spent many months in hospitals ill-equipped to help so many wounded soldiers.

Fellow veterans cheered when President Jimmy Carter appointed Cleland to lead the Veterans Administration, a post he held from 1977 to 1981. The VA and the wider medical community recognized post-traumatic stress disorder — what had been previously been dismissed as shell-shock — as a genuine condition while Cleland was in charge, and he worked to provide veterans and their families with better care.

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