Denouncing Sen. Obama as “anti-American,” Sen. Biden as a “windbag,” Sen. McCain as a “moron,” and Gov. Palin as an “opportunist,” my former boss, Leonard Peikoff, briefly comments on the presidential election—he is abstaining—in his October 20th podcast. Dr. Peikoff, who warned of the rise of radical Islam—he diagnosed the threat of religion in America—decades ago, is usually right, thus I am willing to reconsider my lean towards Obama based on his objection alone.
Along those lines, Middle East commentator Daniel Pipes offers evidence of Sen. Obama’s troubling links to radical Islam in a recent article. I would be astonished if this apparently thoroughly vetted candidate has real, philosophical ties to Islamism—but then I was shocked, if not entirely surprised, at the 9/11/01 act of war.
Thanks to a recommendation from my Linkedin connection (and Facebook friend) Anu, I visited the modernist architect John Lautner exhibit, Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner, at the Armand Hammer Museum in Westwood just before it closed and it was fabulous. I have a new, deeper appreciation for Lautner, who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright. Blueprints, short films and partial models—full-scale versions would have been better—were informative as an introduction to his inspiring work, which generally integrates man and nature.
