"So I tell the Commies my outfit's names are 'Greene, Greenwood, Lambert, Blount, Ham and Fats!'"

Chronicle of a journey from youthful
know-it-all to old-fart astonishment.

POW John McCain began his 13th straight year of torture by the North
Vietnam commies. Oblivious to McCain's refusal to break, 1976 was one kick-ass year for the Stillers, the USA and even for Doctor Bawb who worked the mean streets of Watts a mere 11-years after "Burn baby, burn!" went down. O. J. Simpson's future mouthpiece, Johnnie Cochran, then an obscure Deputy DA in LA, was shrewd enough to sieze the Brass Ring outta the then-greatest civic rebellion since the Civil Woah.

SNAP QUIZ: Which statement is False?

A; Confederate Robert Coke Kennedy
[left] was hanged in 1865 for trying to
burn down New York City.

B: POW John S. McCain defied North
Vietnam captors by identifying his
squad members as the famed 1976
Pittsburgh Steeler "Steel Curtain."

TIME'S UP! The correct answer is "B!"
In FAITH OF OUR FATHERS McCain's best-seller the presumptive GOP nominee state that in the Vietnam War which ended in 1975
he named the Green Bay Packers. Great Caesar's Ghost of Vince Lombardi! Some ultra-Lefto Burgh "news reporter" deliberately asks a TRICK QUESTION. Then the entire media "Jackal Pack" to paraphrase misunderstood commie hunter Joe McCarthy tears McCain apart for making an honest mistake.

Doctor Bawb as readers know is a hopeless Stiller junkie in addition to being an ageing slacker and woulda caught this "gotchya moment" without reading McCain's book [didn't] or KDKA-TV's help. Nonetheless: Yesterday in Pittsburgh, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., professed his love for the Steelers to KDKA-TV.

In Doctor Bawb's opinion, one of filmdom's horrific, "disgusto" characters was magnate-villain Noah Cross as played by John Huston in 1974's Chinatown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(film). There's a part where Cross is talking to Private-Eye Jack Nicolson [Jake Gittes]

Jake Gittes: I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million?

NoahCross: Oh my, yes.

Jake Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?

Noah Cross: The future, Mr. Gitts, the future.

Later, during the same conversation:

Noah Cross: See, Mr. Gitts, most people never have to face the fact that, at the right time and the right place, they're capable of... anything!

"Noah Cross" is ultra-creepy because he embodies a world-view of people with more money than Cross. They have power and craziness extending beyond bringing water to mid-1930s Los Angeles. One almost feels sorry for John McCain, Barack Obama and any adult who ever had visions of meaningful leadership.