The Holy Grail of science is to understand the Higgs Boson, the God Particle, the Dark Matter which makes the Universe exist.  Lincoln is the Higgs Boson of American History, the God Particle. If Americans could only understand Lincoln, we would be able to understand everything. LINCOLN AS THE HIGGS BOSON- Lincoln was a dark, dark, dark man, of dark moods, great depressions, black dreams. Lincoln was as dark as King Saul, dark as any Shakespearean Hamlet or Lear, dark as Churchill. In fact Lincoln and Churchill had much in common. They both were hated by their fathers. Lincoln was saved by the love of his step-mother; Churchill by the love of his nanny. They were both given to great bouts of depression; Churchill called his depression-his black dog.   They were both two dark men who brought light where no one else could. One defeated a masterful race of slave holders; the other defeated the Nazis. It is as if God made depressives the vessels of  choice f...

   This Blogger has been  friends with Lenny since they both attended P.S. 167 and Wingate High School in Brooklyn. He has contributed mightily to the Republic, fortifying one of the the key sinews of the Republic, honest and honorable American Unionism.  The following is written by Mr. Ginsberg, a Living Witness to the importance of  The 1199, the Civil Rights Revolution and the Anti-War Movement. "My father was active in the American Labor movement dating back to 1916.He became a Business Agent for the  Amalgamated Clothing Workers  Union in 1923 and later on became President of the Amalgamated Retirees . My father helped me get the job with 1199 . Leon Davis was familiar with my father and his friend Sidney Hillman. Nearly everyone I met at 1199 was active politically from Davis himself to Moe Foner to Marshall Dubin and others  In 1955 my best friend who was 10 1/2 years old was murdered by 3 twelve year old boys.The reason they attacked him w...

This Blogger met Ronald Reagan once; in an anteroom of the Bel Air Presbyterian Church. This Blogger was surprised at how big he was, thick; not fat, not muscle bound like gym freaks but working man thick, stoker thick. They chatted, about a man they mutually admired, Eric Hoffer, the Stevedore Intellectual. Reagan's political enemy, Michael Dukakis, once said he had never met nor seen a man more comfortable in his own skin that Ronald Reagan. And why not? As a life guard, he had pulled 77 people from the water, many of them lovely young ladies. And while at Warner Brothers Movie Studios, as a contract player; he had received more fan letters than Errol Flynn. As the chat wound down, he asked this Blogger one question:  "What did the Soviets make of him?   This Blogger told him the truth; they thought he was an idiot savant, sent by God to destroy them.   This Blogger    was alive when the Soviet Union collapsed, without the need of a cataclysmic World War III. ...