It’s Thanksgiving Week 2021, which I hope is also Kennedy Week. That’s because when family and friends get together for some kind of a feast this year, I hope that in addition to pausing and acknowledging how thankful they are for all sorts of things . . . they spend at least a few minutes getting into talking about (1) the murder, 57 years ago this past Monday, of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and how the official explanation was physically impossible and therefore whether it was in fact a coup d’etat with consequences today and in the foreseeable future until Americans do something about it, or (2) the latest book by Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. — about which more below — and how the government/media explanation for the current Covid-19 mess is not worthy of the credibility it has been granted. Please read on.
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The Groaning Board: Many Americans have some familiarity with Norman Rockwell’s 1943 painting, HERE, of a family of white Americans gathered around a dining room table as an enormous cooked turkey is presented at one end by someone’s grandmother. One title is “The Christmas Bird,” but the image is appropriate for Thanksgiving Day. People who are groaningly bored with the conversation as it is going at the table or elsewhere might experiment by asking someone present, “What do you think about the Kennedy assassination back in 1963?” or “Has anyone heard about the new book by Bobby Kennedy Jr. about Dr. Fauci?” . . . and take it from there.
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Book Availability: I was in a Barnes & Noble this morning, a week after the release of The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, and asked if they had it. Maybe for Christmas, a clerk said. He continued from behind his mask: “It’s a small, questionable . . . .” “Publisher?” I offered, from behind mine. He nodded. Yes, Skyhorse, I added, and said I was reading it, and that Amazon says it’s their top seller. “They can’t even get it,” he said. I said I was reading it and it’s really good. I may have more about it below or tomorrow. Meanwhile, see THIS or THIS or THIS.
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Credibility: At lunch today (once we had sat down and taken off our masks), somehow the topic of the Covid came up. I asked my lunch mate what he thought of Anthony Fauci. “Who’s that?” “America’s Doctor?” “Oh, him. Trump couldn’t stand him.” Then, my lunch mate called Dr. Fauci the most credible person on any subject. I noted I heard him interviewed on “Morning Edition” yesterday by cohost Steve Inskeep, who didn’t bring up the subject of Kennedy’s new book, (HERE’s the interview.) It was a good lunch, without further talk about any of that. We did agree about the state of the news media, and how tough a time newspapers are having getting ads, and I wondered whether a country is a democracy without news that informs people about what’s going on. I reminded him of his long-held opinion that “People don’t read.”
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Thoughts on Stupidity: A Facebook friend just sent a diagram of “The Five Laws of Stupidity” with accompanying narration. Click HERE to find both. It’s a seemingly offensive topic, but the thing has much that’s true and helpful. It’s from a website called “The Voluntary Life” and is derived from a 1987 essay in The Whole Earth Catalog by Carlo M. Cipolla, HERE. It may be comforting to learn that practically everyone is stupid in one way or another.
— Mark Channing Miller