Good morning folks… back to work after a week off at the cottage. Nothing like an overflowing email inbox to make one want to turn around and leave again. Ah well…

re: #450 eon

Put simply, McNamara was a loon.

John Ralston Saul savaged McNamara in his tome Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West. McNamara is described as a brilliant fantasist. He was so smart and so sure of ideas, he had no need of “facts” or “reality”.