gore vidal

Gore Vidal, American man of letters, author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, wit, political activist, public speaker, atheist, skeptic de luxe, & half–step–brother–in–law of John F Kennedy died yesterday at 86 from complications of pneumonia at his home in California. They make few like...

This is less about the facts or conspiracy theories (which wil continue to be debated ad nauseum elsewhere) than one of those almighty academic/journalistic feuds I'd pull up a seat and open the popcorn but I'm not sure how long Gore Vidal, who has yet to comment, has left.... More here...

In this piece for Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens outlines Vidal's tendency for CT thinking and comments he's made regarding 9/11. http://bit.ly/5Pnj8A

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/19480/gore-vidal-polanski-is-a-persecuted-jew/ So why is Roman Polanski in a Swiss prison cell? To hear author, intellectual, and seasoned provocateur Gore Vidal tell it, the famed director’s troubles have little to do with having drugged and raped a 13-year-old...

Author and former Obama supporter Gore Vidal offers a sobering assessment of Barack Hussein Obama's stewardship of America... http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6854221.ece