word gamers

You might find this fun.

words floating from the dust

Early this morning, I caught a fifteen-minute clip on CSPAN of Sen. McCarthy in 1952, after he had asserted Communists had infiltrated our government but before he had subpoena power (the Republicans had yet to win that year's congressional election). I jotted down a couple of the names of people the interviewers said had endorsed McCarthy (one was Gerald Smith). McCarthy was very genial yet declined to disavow any of those endorsements.

So I began researching, as I am wont to do. By the by I came across the declassified executive subcommittee hearing transcripts. These just became available five years ago, fifty years after the fact.

Anyway, I've just stepped my toe in the water--am at page 58 of 950--but I came across a fantastic quote from one Russell W. Duke:

[E]go is an anesthesia provided by nature to deaden the pain of a damned fool[.]

& I had to preserve that because it rings so true.