Another Intellectual Thug [17 February 2007]

I recounted a few days ago how, 45 years after the fact, I remain grateful to Mr. Jim Bristow, then of Los Angeles 45 (this was before the ZIP Code!), for seeming eager to have me on his team for an impromptu basketball game at my junior high school. Nearly 40 years after the fact, I remain siimilarly beholden to Mr. Ralph Oswald, now one of the pre-emi…