Jerome Tucille passes away

[Backlighting]

Perhaps best known for his book, It Usually begins With Ayn Rand, Jerome Tucille, age 80, died today.

http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/17/jerome-tuccille-author-of-it-usually-beg

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Bummer.

I read a couple of his books. They were conversational, but enjoyable.

I might look into reading more.

I never bought that crap that he was an enemy of Rand. (He's not good about Trump.) He used his own eyes and had a good heart, and that's the important part to me.

I just listened to his interview with Gillespie about Trump (fall of 2015). He said clearly that winning tax abatements was a guarantee of success and profit in real estate. Obviously, his knowledge of the real estate market was limited because, to him, getting tax relief was all the skill you needed and, anyway, it was a bad thing for the virtuous. That's why he said Trump was successful. And he called Melania a hooker... And he said he was stunned at Trump's success in the primaries. But given what he said, I'm not stunned that he was stunned.

Enough...

I will not speak ill of the dead and I want to hold onto my pleasant memories of him from my younger days...

May he rest in peace...

Michael

[BaalChatzaf]

3 hours ago, Backlighting said:

Perhaps best known for his book, It Usually begins With Ayn Rand, Jerome Tucille, age 80, died today.

http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/17/jerome-tuccille-author-of-it-usually-beg

I read that about 30 years ago (or thereabout).  I thought it was very witty .