While the journalists fixate on anecdotes such as the suicides of high-profile players such as Junior Seau and Dave Duerson, scientists examine the data.
Author: Daniel J. Flynn
Flynn: Before Socialism Collapsed Behind the Iron Curtain, It Failed Near Plymouth Rock
Before socialism failed in the Soviet Union, East Germany, and Albania, it failed in Plymouth Colony.
Charles Manson Unleashed a Nightmare After Showbiz Crushed His Dream
The Manson Family appropriately laid roots, for much of its short existence, at the Spahn Movie Ranch, a fading, set popular in an older, black-and-white, cowboy-crazy Hollywood but used for horse rides and an occasional shoot (a Bonanza here, a softc…
#Lame: Newsweek Compares Donald Trump to Charles Manson
Newsweek compares Charles Manson with Donald Trump in an article titled “How Murderer Charles Manson and Donald Trump Used Language to Gain Followers” all the while insisting it makes no such comparison.
Report: Charlie Rose Accused of Lewd Calls, Nudity, Groping by Former Employees
Charlie Rose, PBS interviewer and co-anchor of CBS This Morning, stands accused of sexual harassment by eight women.
Flynn: Remember That Time ‘Rolling Stone’ Fell for Charles Manson’s Cult of Personality?
Forty-three years before Rolling Stone depicted Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev on its cover in his best boy-band, Tiger Beat pose, the magazine portrayed an upward-gazing Charles Manson as a visionary wiseman below its nameplate.
Charles Manson, a Villain in Life & Death, Praised as a Counterculture Hero in 1969, Dead at 83
Manson, the man who struck a violent coda to the era of peace and love, met his end in a Bakersfield hospital at 83. Jackson Browne, Neil Young, the Mamas and the Papas, and, of course, the Beach Boys all crossed paths with the diminutive guitarist in the 1960s before Sharon Tate, Gary Hinman, and Shorty Shea did. His followers came to him via Anton Lavey’s Church of Satan, Wavy Gravy’s Hog Farm, the Cal-Berkeley library, and points beyond. He preached a gospel of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, practicing what he preached by orchestrating orgies, sacramentally distributing LSD as though communion, and prevailing upon Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson and later Doris Day’s son Terry Melcher to record his music. Manson started his family in the Bay Area, where he tripped at a Grateful Dead concert at the Avalon Ballroom and busked in Haight-Ashbury for spare change, before heading south. The conman projected an oracular wiseman to fools. Biographer Ed Sanders notes, “The reality was that he was a glib grubby little man with a guitar scrounging for young girls using mysticism and guru babble.” More than his naïve female followers fell for it. Even after Manson stood
With Nudity, Anti-Trump Chants in the Stands, Yale Beats Harvard on the Field in the Only Game That Matters
Yale defeated the Harvard 24-3 in the Only Game That Matters on Saturday afternoon.
Ferdie Pacheco, Muhammad Ali’s ‘Fight Doctor,’ Dies at 89
Ferdie Pacheco, Muhammad Ali’s cornerman and physician, passed away at 89 on Thursday.