Dick Van Patten dead at 86

Actor Dick Van Patten died Tuesday in Santa Monica. He was 86. Mr. Van Patten, you are, of course, Tom Bradford, Sacramento newspaper columnist, on Eight Is Enough. You are also a semi-precocious wannabe in Westworld. Mostly, you are yet another memorable piece of my childhood, now fallen. Thank you, sir. RIP.

Jason Lee Steorts: No respect for Confederate “service” or “sacrifice”

“…the Confederacy’s primary reason for being was to preserve racial slavery — that is, to violate natural rights rather than to secure them. That is what Confederate soldiers fought for. Whatever else their battle flag may mean, it has to mean that.” “If your ancestors fought for the Confederacy, I do not respect their ‘service’ … Read more

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