I formally pronounce that this letters section is a high water mark for spaz counts. You are all a bunch of spazzes, to a degree I think future salon articles will have trouble matching. Mr Kennard clearly hit the sweet spot bu featuring the war, wite nationalism and racism all together.

Congrats to Mr Kennard and all here who have contributed to this fantastic menagerie of emotional instability.

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What is wrong with you? What in God's name does the moon landing have to do with the Moonwalk dance at all? It is not as if today is even the anniversary of the moon landing (I googled). At least if it was, you might make a little sense, but you flew off into orbit around Planet Curmudgeon.

As for the video from 1970, I for one don't remember a thing about it.

"If you ask me if he was pro-recovery or even a blogger like me with a pseudonym, I'll have to admit I don't know."

-- Well that is a quote worth getting tattooed on.

Really, since we are all speculating, the lupus idea seems pretty picture perfect. Certainly would explain the joint problems he may have occasionally suffered from (and the wheelchair periods). It seems as if there is enough support to back the idea he did have the disease from several doctors. He is about the 'correct' age to die of a Lupus flare up. We also know he had those ill-scheduled shows in the UK which apparently were a stressor to him, and stress is considered a potential agonist. He may have been taking pain killers to alleviate joint pain (and perhaps gone overboard in the process)... at least it follows logically.

@Silenced - One day I will see you post about something that does not address your own personal cannabinoid fixation.

"If you're not trans, you're free from thinking about what gender you are in the same way that white people in America are generally free from having to think about what race they are."

Not true... in fact, if you listen to the 'International Church of Universal Practical Knowledge' or whatever they have revolved into, you would know that we crackers only think about our race... takes a lot of work to stay white. I'm kidding of course, but this fallacy flies in the fact of a long history in which the guv'ment has, in fact, enacted strenuous regulations as regards race, so it reeks of statementism to claim that white folks don't think about race and parallel that to something else.

"Even now, I occasionally meet trans people who say: Oh I'm a woman too! I love to make cookies and play with dolls! To which I want to wearily respond: Jesus fuck, if you want to play with dolls, play with dolls. You don't need a vagina for that."

Oof... some sympathy! Merely trying to convey a sense here and not all of us are gifted with the gabberation. Give a wo/man a break if not quarter.

To the teeth: "Read the rest of the article Mr Gams... ma'am"

quite liked it.

It happened?? really? No reference to cannabis? did you hit 'publish' by mistake?

You know what though... if she had the munchies, she would have a harder time being anorexic, no?

The adoption of a powerbook was visionary? I think not. All the 100-500 era PowerPC based terminals were crappy despite what MacIntosh adherents claim about the 500... Hence the replacement and retooling of the OS. Virtually everything about those computers was god awful, from hardware bugs that were a pain in the ass to fix to a malignant operating system. Damn thing kept me off Macs for years.

My opinion anyway: The end of the PowerPC era was a deliverance.

Been trying to make a PRO-miscegenation argument. He was supposing the study of Swedes and Finns reflected that such populations are less genetically varied and hence the supposition regarding rates of dementia are, as a result, not transitive or comparable to the US population. Essentially he seemed to be supposing that a greater deal of interbreeding might create a greater diathesis for mental disorders.

He sure sounded like an idiot and his nomenclature was off (and offensive), but it does sound as if he making a simple point that the study might not be applicable in other genetic pools, and no conclusion can be made without further study... At least, trying to read through the jibber jabber, that's what i heard.

You don't think a story about a white male rising to power might potentially describe his personal life, should it be a story about the person behind the career? This is a 'people piece.'

Anyway, I am aghast at your suggesting that a white male would not be subject to such personal inquiries. Think! If any man were of such age, successful and single, there is no doubt the (no) family life would come up. Also, what might come up are subtle clarifications or allusions regarding his sexuality.

Seriously? A supposedly educated class of folks on a seemingly intellectually minded web site can only seem to respond to all of life's crises by parroting the phrase of a pathetic, mindless advice columnist who happens to be gay and lucky?