My blog , October 8, 2002 --- " Postage stamp honors avowed SOCIALIST Helen Keller

Tuesday, October 8, 2002 Postage stamp honors avowed Socialist Keller I was pleased to read that the United States Postal Service has chosen to honor an avowed socialist and remarkable human being -Helen Keller - with a stamp. I have just finished reading the autobiography of one Upton Sinclair - also a socialist who aimed for our hearts in his classic " The Jungle " - but instead hit us in the stomach instead -with his rotten meat industry story. Sinclair just missed winning a Nobel Prize. Perhaps he too - like Helen Keller - should be honored with a stamp. I believed he advocated a very tranquil transition to Socialism - which would not offend comfortable white Southern aristocrats and their friends. At the end of his autobiography this gentle soul wonders how the poor can even afford to die ! The cynic in me also wants to honor H.L. Mencken with a postage stamp. He knew that this world was too much to take SOBER !