As commenter Richard Albury pointed out, NewMexiKen neglected to include Seymour Hersh among the birthdays Sunday. Hersh turned 70 April 8th. Matt Taibbi has an interview with Hersh in the current Rolling Stone.
America’s pre-eminent investigative reporter of the last half-century, Hersh broke the story of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and was on hand, nearly four decades later, when we found ourselves staring back at the same sick face in the mirror after Abu Ghraib. At age seventy, he clearly still loves his job. During a wide-ranging interview at his cramped Washington office, Hersh could scarcely sit still, bouncing around the room like a kindergartner to dig up old articles, passages from obscure books and papers buried in his multitudinous boxes of files. A hopeless information junkie, he is permanently aroused by the idea that corruption and invisible power are always waiting to be uncovered by the next phone call. Somewhere out there, They are still hiding the story from Us — and that still pisses Hersh off.
Key quote: “I think Bush wants to resolve the Iranian crisis. It may not be a crisis, but he wants to resolve it.”
Thank you, sir!