Archive for April 8th, 2006
The Bills and Sabres are woven into the fabric of western New York, a dwindling rust-belt region whose fragile economic health requires a certain amount of distraction that goes beyond a generous appetite for chicken wings.
It’s easier to debate starting quarterbacks or goaltenders than accept that Buffalo and Erie County are both in debt.
The weather doesn’t exactly help, either.
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The TV was on in the background and MSNBC News was on. I wasn’t really paying attention until the phrase “leaker-in-chief” caught my attention. It was an appropriately descriptive title of Commander Bush and his role in the Valerie Plame scandel.
WASHINGTON - April 7 - The latest revelation in the Valerie Plame investigation underscores the Bush administration’s perversion of the government’s control over information for political gain. This is an unethical administration that changes the rules to help campaign contributors and manipulates information to score political points.
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Was J. Edgar Hoover really a transvestite?
As fun as it is to imagine the former chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in drag, most historians believe this is just an urban legend.
The History News Network explains how the rumors began. In “Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover,” author Anthony Summers quotes Susan L. Rosenstiel as saying she once observed Hoover in a black dress and high heels at the Plaza Hotel. The story, salacious though it is, isn’t very credible. Rosenstiel’s husband was involved in organized crime, and Susan was once convicted of perjury in an unrelated case. Additionally, why would the head of the FBI put himself in a position to be easily blackmailed?
Far more likely (though never proven) was that Mr. Hoover was a closeted homosexual. Hoover was a lifelong bachelor, but he did have one constant companion — Clyde Tolson. The two were inseparable, even vacationing together. When Hoover died, he left his entire estate, valued at over $500,000, to Tolson. Additionally, it was Tolson who accepted the American flag used to drape Hoover’s casket.
Of course, just because two guys hang out together doesn’t mean they’re lovers. The fact is, nobody knows whether Hoover and Tolson were more than friends, but it’s interesting to note the two chose to be buried next to each other.
Hoover and Tolson
