Jerry Beck, who's a pretty good blogger himself, informs me that I made the 2013 Time list of the 25 Best Bloggers. I am reminded of what the late Jack Kirby once said to me when I told him he'd been nominated for some honor. He said, "Remember — when you win anything, just thank the little people and get off!" So…thank you, little people. I'm not going to mention any names. You know who you are.
I said in yesterday's piece on my father that one of the things that turned me against the Vietnam War was when Richard Nixon's announced "secret plan" to end it turned out to be illusory. Well, as several folks have informed me, it was illusory in that Nixon never promised any such thing. His fabled "secret plan," which I believe was ridiculed in opposition commercials, was the invention of a reporter who first used the term. Others picked up on it but Nixon apparently never said, "I have a secret plan to end the war in Vietnam." There are those who insist that he pointedly did not deny it because he wanted to make that claim without making that claim, if you follow me. But he didn't say it. Its non-existence was hardly the only reason my dislike for Nixon and that war grew…but we should set the record straight on the one thing.
And boy, it feels odd to correct a fib about Richard Nixon.
My knee's a bit better but I won't be begging, proposing marriage, praying or singing "Mammy" for a while. I also have deadlines looming so for that reason and to prove Time wrong, I won't be blogging much the rest of the day. Gonna post a Video Link and go back to work…