Yesterday's blog disappeared into cyber space for some reason. We had a fairly slow first day as Brad and Kim both worked. We met for dinner at Jake's Crawfish House, a truly great restaurant in Portland. Tim Eckstein joined us and it was good to see him. Our meals were fantastic.
Yesterday Brad and I golfed at a local muni course while Dana and Kim shopped. The course was well maintained with quick greens. Payed very poorly but had a good time. In the evening we went to a concert by Wilco, an alternative style band, which was outstanding. It was at an outdoor venue on a beautiful night.
Am reading reading a relatively new biography of Mao Tse Tung. He made Stalin and Hitler look like choir boys. They attribute 70 million deaths to him, the majority by intentinal starvation. He fed people less than concentration camp prisoners and sold the harvests to fund his Great Leaps Forward, which were almost entirely for military production.
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I am reading Wild Swans which is written by one of the authors of the Mao biography. It is quite wonderful. It's interesting to read about the progression of feelings that occur as rule changes from the Kuomuntang to the Communists. They are hopeful at first that each group will bring some degree of fairness and prosperity to their lives.
Carol
I just got done reading my 2nd bio of Stalin. Please don't discredit the fact that he organized famines that killed nearly 10 million of his own people out of xenophobic fury toward non-Russians. Three times. Now THAT's genocide. Not to mention the law of terror that he thrust upon his people and that paralyzed a once rich society for over 50 years. He was as bad as anybody.
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