deSitter sez I never read the first word by Mr. LaRouche

Then you are depriving yourself of a fortunately rare treat. I first became aware of LaRouche during the 1980 primary season when an acquaintance of mine was beaten up by his partisans in New Hampshire (I had this story at second hand, and for years misremembered that the acquaintance had been walking precincts for Hubert Humphrey--unlikely on the face of it, since The Hump died in 1978. However, the thuggish tactics of the LaRouchies in that and other campaigns are well documented), and have followed his antics since, never missing an opportunity to accept literature when proferred by his weird and scary followers (in 1982, when Jerry Brown ran unsuccessfully for the Senate, a LaRouche flyer blasted him as "The Candidate of Sodomy"). LaRouche is one of the great comic spirits of our age, and also a consolation when our corrupt political duopoly begins to depress me: say what you will about the limited range of choices our two-party system permits, it has served so far to lock serious loonies like LaRouche out of the action.

cordially,