I have “Fear and Loathing in America”, a volume of his correspondence from the 60’s and 70’s, and it’s really interesting, but I don’t have “The Proud Highway”. Would you recommend it (or would you say that it offers something, in terms of insight into point of view, that his other works do not)?

The very same.

“compilation”.

-Semanticleo

Are you talking about the Hunter S. Thompson compliation?

He did what had to be done when it had to be done.

Also, Parents v. Seattle (whatever — the racial classification ruling) was nothing remedying anything demanded by Brown v. Board of Education or any other Supreme Court decision. The assignments by race were purely a product of the local governmental process. It was a failure of democracy which the Court stepped in to fix just like it did in 1952.

I live in a very good little village full of doctors, lawyers and financiers. It has a very good K-5 school with a class size of less than twenty across the street from my house. Every morning, the white mommies in their Lexuses and Volvos, looking like they just stepped out of the beauty shop, drop off their kids. I drive my daughter three miles to a much better private school. She has a class size of less than twenty as well. And white, black, asian and latin mommies and daddies, in economy sedans and pickup trucks, dropping off her classmates. The “diversity” is coincindental. The commonality is that we will reach as deep in our pocket as we can to send our kids to a good school.

Yes, with about the same outcome that we found in Mao’s China.

The “Great Leap Forward” probably set back Chinese society 50-75 years. Most people today would love to be able to send their kids to a public-school that performed today as well as schools 75 years ago.

Also, don’t forget that Earl Warren as Governor, was a vocal advocate of Japanese relocation during WW-2. Could his performance on the Court have been a form of punishment/attonement?

And, to that fellow who thinks that Kennedy is in the top rank intellectually (!): You may be the only one who thinks that. The rest of us have more sense.

Pray for the Republic.

I confess I haven’t read any new books since ‘Proud Highway’ because non-fiction was never better than
the internet.