The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

Harry Reid & the Whores that Bore Him

An affecting memorial to Harry Reid and how we hardly knew him - his tough wielding of soft power. Also a reminder of when Democrats represented flyover country, and the irony of the quixotic Christian faith that imbues it. I suppose opioids and NetFlix have created a different kind of flyover. I wonder how the free range gun idea went over in depression-era deserty Nevada.

https://digbysblog.net/2021/12/29/remembering-reid/

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From Capitol Cop to Senate Majority Leader

Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid -- who lay in state today in the Capitol Rotunda -- gets the @nytimes treatment today from @hillhulse, who nicely captured the twin sides of Reid's nature, conciliatory and ruthless. https://t.co/4fcpu5vMwI

Read the article at 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/11/us/politics/harry-reid.html


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