,,,There are always complications.


Eventually a few people will find their way here, from an outrageous Afterpunk post called This is hard but it had to be said.

Thing is, I have more lists, which are not targets for recrimination or revenge but mere acts of intelligent discrimination, which did not used to be a dirty word but a sign of careful observation and differentiation between the acceptable and not in terms of one’s own morality, esthetics, and values. This will be longer than the inciting post at AP. It’s the human, emotional version, not the analytical version my real targets of the other post well and truly deserve.

19 Additions to the 50:

 Come fight with me, I’m begging you.

Gertrude Stein (PA-born, she bored writing to death in Paris in the Twenties)
Norman Mailer (NJ-born, a horny writer who loved Marilyn and long sentences because Hem didn’t)
Dustin Hoffman (NYC-born, not his fault really, Oscar for Midnight Cowboy then Kramer v. Kramer)
Barbra Streisand (NYC-born, ugly woman turned singing star, high school graduate, political pundit)
William S. Paley  (NYC-born, how many times do I have to say CBS News is a fake, filled with jerks?)
Mike Wallace  (NYC-born, how many times do I have to say CBS News is a fake, filled with jerks?)
Chris Wallace (Hotchkiss School, CT, how many times do I have to say Fox News is a fake, filled with jerks?)
Natalie Portman (Jerusalem-born, silver spoon child star, Harvard, saving the world for lesbianism)
Lena Dunham  (NYC-born, cable TV star who wants everyone to see her cervix)
Amy Schumer (NYC-born, cable TV star who wants everyone to smell her vagina)
Sarah Silverman (NH-born [wow!], cable TV star who wants everyone to hear her farts)
Andrea Dworkin  (NYC-born, feminist writer making the world safe for lesbians w/baseball  bats. Dead now.)
Susan Brownmiller (NYC-born, feminist writer, never got raped but wrote about it as if she had hated it)
Larry King (Brooklyn-born, years and years of cable TV, never a follow up question worth answering)
Ron Leibman (NYC-born, not his fault really, just always played the union schlub who yelled a lot)
Stanley Kramer (NYC-born, director of all the social justice  movies Sidney Lumet didn’t have time for)
Norman Lear (CT-born, stole three different Brit sitcoms and made a fortune. Heaven, right?)
Larry David (Brooklyn-born, supposedly a writer, prospered by making everyone improvise)
Stephen Spielberg (OH-born. The new Benjamin Spock. Today’s kids are his kids. Liars. Sneaky and awful.)

The ones who changed their minds:

 I admire these people a lot, have written about them in the past, and probably will again.

David Horowitz 
David Mamet
Ron Silver
Alan Dershowitz

 I Can’t Decide. Never look to scientists for moral direction. Mostly, they’re just egomaniacs.

 Albert Einstein (Two good ideas in his 20s, then a lifetime of just showing off at Princeton. Useless? Kinda.)
Nikola Tesla (NOT Jewish, but smarter than Einstein and far more dangerous. The government built him a hotel to spec)

Ones who had fine careers, stayed out of politics, and let their work speak for itself:

 I know this list will get longer. Why the first List is at all bearable. These are as good as any people can be.

Aaron Copland
Oscar Levant
George Gershwin
Nathanael West
MacKinlay Kantor
Leon Uris
Herman Wouk
Richard Feynman
Saul Bellow
William Styron
Irving Thalberg
S. J. Perelman
Groucho Marx
Harpo Marx
Jack Benny
Al Hirschfeld
Mel Brooks
Art Buchwald
Max Shulman
Gilda Radner
Hedy Lamarr
Lauren Bacall
Jeff Goldblum
Judd Hirsch
Steve Landesburgh
Harold Ramis 
Eugene Levy
Richard Dreyfuss
David Steinberg 
Hal Linden
Bette Midler* (personal grudge)
David Seinfeld
Jason Alexander

WASP “Progressives”:

 Shorter list? We are far more dangerous than you. But, yes, many more to be added.

Benjamin Spock (Number One on the all-time WASP traitors list) 
William Sloan Coffin (prime mover in destruction of Episcopal Church USA)
Bishop Pike (See William Sloan Coffin)
John Lindsay
John Steinbeck
Ken Kesey
Jack Kerouac
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
John Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
John Dos Passos
Russell Baker
George Will

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