October 10

In two days some of America will celebrate Columbus Day. Many will curse the Genoan navigator.

On October 10, 1492 the great navigator was two hundred miles from land.

In 1973 Vice President Agnew was deposed as Nixon's vice president for graft.

He once said, "An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike."

Millions of my generation said, "Go fuck yourself."

Pseudo-intellectuals are not nattering nabobs of negativism and I celebrate Agnew's exile into non-existence every year.

Fuck the GOP.

ps Columbus' fleet had yet to sight land on October 10, 1492. The day meant nothing to his crew, but they all studied the west for a sign of land. Their Admiral had promised a gold coin to the first man to sight China. He reneged on that prmise and doomed the inhabitants to extermination.

December 16, 1978 – East Village – Journal

A Pleasant Paradise
1963 Snipers murdered JFK
1968 A sniper kills Malcolm Luther King.
Gunmen assassinate Malcolm X and RFK
Our leaders dying before their time
Before their replacements
Richard Nixon betrayed the USA
But kept coming back
The Messiah of the Silent Majority
Why did you live?
When so many others died.
Almost sixty thousand US soldiers in Vietnam
Millions throughout Indochina
And Henry Kissinger
The blood of Cambodia on his hands
Palestine too.
He will live to an old age
Never to go to Hell or Heaven
Only finally to death

Leaving us in a pleasant paradise.

Bad poetry

President Nixon 1969 Thailand

After a five and a half hour stop-over in Vietnam President Nixon landed in Thailand on 7/30/69 to speak with the King. The Thai military were a strongest allies in the fight against communism. The president was escorted to the airport by Thailand's King Phumiphol prior to his departure for New Delhi, India. A crowd of about 500 persons gathered at the airport to see off the President of the Free World.

This photo thanks to www.2bangkok.com

Notice Nixon didn't put his wife in the photo.

What red-blooded American would? Bangkok was Bangkok even back then.