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Paul Krassner and Susie Bright praise indecency

40th anniversary of Stonewall

Here's my review of a book about it:

Martin B. Duberman has already written an excellent book called Stonewall, but David Carter's new book with the same title offers added insights. Carter believes that Judy Garland's death had little to do with the riots and suggests the original linkage was a het joke. He also offers evidence that the reason for the raid was not so much to make gay people miserable as to crack down on one of the mobsters who ran the club, Ed "The Skull" Murphy, who appears to have been using Stonewall as part of a large and successful operation of entrapping and blackmailing successful closeted gays, one that may have reached even Clyde Tolson, then the FBI’s prince consort.

One thing about Michael Jackson I haven't seen mentioned

The hatred he inspired in a few people even before the pedophilia rumors started. To them he was, in Robert Anton Wilson's phrase, a no-good shit who hadn't gotten caught. Specifically, he was getting away with not growing up and should be dragged bodily from Neverland and forced to deal with the crap the rest of us have to face.

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Gale Storm is dead. I liked her, and kinda liked My Little Margie, though in retrospect it was pretty dumb. Just goes to show that deaths come in threes to sevens or maybe eights depending on how you count.

Thanx to Baron Dave Romm on Facebook.