Something to Know - 12 July

1.  Getting ready for the run-up to the campaign tactics employed by less-than-aware candidates?   It is usually a slap-stick goof that evokes a chuckle.   Gail Collins has a few examples for you:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/opinion/gail-collins-rules-to-run-by.html?emc=eta1

2.  A break from the action.  Dick Cavett.  Always a good story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/opinion/dick-cavett-bury-my-heart-on-west-end-avenue.html?emc=eta1

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Juan
 

 

If we bred people with half the sense we breed dogs, there wouldn't be no Republican Party to put up with.  No lawyers, either.

-- Joly Vernon (from Joe Bageant's Rainbow Pie)