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Ezra Klein's Queer New Hire
An addendum to this piece was posted on Sunday, March 16.
On Tuesday, former Washington Post pundit (and Prospect alum) Ezra Klein sent a shock wave through the gay community by announcing he had hired gay anti-gay apologist Brandon Ambrosino to join him at Vox Media, the much-hyped digital venture that's aiming to remake journalism for the Internet age. Liberal watchdog group Media Matters was the first to sound the alarm, but within a day, gay-rights supporters—from Mark Stern at Slate to John Aravosis at AmericaBlog—had joined the chorus of voices asking Klein: What were you thinking?
The problem with hiring Ambrosino is not that Klein isn't entitled to bring someone on board whose views the gay community finds distasteful. It's that Ambrosino's quick rise to notoriety—and now, his ticket aboard the profession's hottest new upstart—is an object lesson in the way new media equates click-bait contrarianism with serious thought and gives hacks a platform in the name of ideological balance.
Ambrosino, who enrolled in Jerry Falwell's Liberty University in 2003,* has earned his name as a journalist—and his coveted spot at Vox Media—by being the gay writer who comes to the defense of gay-rights antagonists. He most recently stirred up a storm by proclaiming, at The New Republic, that homosexuality is a choice and that he has chosen to be gay. Time magazine gave him space to call gays the real bigots for piling on Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson, who had equated homosexuality with bestiality and said gays weren't going to heaven (still, Ambrosino says he wouldn't mind going fishing with the guy). At The Atlantic, Ambrosino threw his hat in the ring for the founder of his alma mater, who blamed September 11 on gays and accused them of trying to "recruit" children; Ambrosino says liberals like Bill Maher have slandered the Moral Majority founder and says, in Falwell's defense, that the guy with the "big fat smile" probably wouldn't have had him stoned to death if he'd known about Ambrosino's sexuality. Ambrosino also defends the views of ex-gay therapists and same-sex marriage opponents, whom he says aren't motivated by bigotry. In The Baltimore Sun, Ambrosino went after the guys in "butt-less chaps and high-heels" at gay-pride marches who earn society's prejudice with their "hypersexual antics": "I think there is a subversive power in living out my gay life in a way that seeks to emphasize the common ground I share with straight communities," he wrote. "I don't want to participate in an event that seeks to highlight how countercultural I am." Unsurprisingly, the religious right has been thrilled to find an acolyte among the fallen.
Gay intellectuals like Andrew Sullivan or Jonathan Rauch may occasionally ruffle queer folks' feathers for going against the grain when it comes to hate-crime laws, say, or the right of for-profit businesses to turn away gay customers. But Ambrosino should not be thought of in this mold. Whereas Sullivan's and Rauch's positions are thoughtfully staked out and stem from nuanced views about the role of government, Ambrosino's iconoclasm amounts to heedless self-promotion. His gross distortions of mainstream gay views and stunning lack of fluency in the basic language of gay equality reveals him to be little but a feckless provocateur. His mischaracterization of 20th-century philosopher Michel Foucault—Ambrosino warps the philosopher's idea that sexuality is a "social construct" to justify his view that gays choose their sexuality—has gotten him called out by academics. But his use of nonsensical phrases like "intersexed crossdressers" (intersexuality, a medical condition, has nothing to do with cross-dressing) and penchant for referring to transsexualism as a "sexual choice" (it's not about sexuality) show that his lack of familiarity with his subject matter runs even deeper.
So the big question: Why has a string of editors, culminating with Klein, given this guy a platform? In an interview on Wednesday evening, Klein told me he hadn't read the pieces that had kicked up so much dust before bringing Ambrosino on but did so once he began facing criticism for the hire. "I don't want to pretend that I have the context and the background to perfectly or authoritatively judge this debate," Klein said. "But when I read his pieces, I didn't come away with the impression that he holds an iota of homophobia." "Homophobia"—which activists too often use as shorthand to describe anti-gay views that don't necessarily stem from fear—may be the wrong word for it. But even a cursory read through Ambrosino's writings should raise red flags. Klein, though, seems mystified by the blowback. He acknowledges that he is new to the process of staffing an enterprise like Vox. "I gotta be honest," he said. "With a lot of this stuff, I'm trying to figure out what success means."
It's unclear what role Ambrosino will play in Vox's coverage of LGBT issues; Klein stressed that he hired Ambrosino as a writing fellow, part of a training program for young journalists. But the fact that the hiring process failed to raise any questions about Ambrosino's journalism raises questions about the kind of oversight he'll receive at Vox. Plus, as a gay-rights advocate and friend of mine remarked, only half in jest, "After that he'll have a star-studded résumé and free rein to antagonize us for years!"
Klein has come under fire for the lack of racial and gender diversity among Vox's announced hires, and his decision to hire Ambrosino shows how much he has to learn about genuine diversity. Klein told me he found Ambrosino's background as a gay Christian compelling and is trying to cultivate "ideological diversity" as well as gender and racial diversity at Vox. While he has a number of female hires in the pipeline, Klein said he is struggling to find racial minorities for the venture, adding: "I also want to say, other kinds of diversity are important—ideological diversity." I asked Klein what he meant by ideological diversity. "It's not that I have a quota that I need Republicans," he said; he just doesn't want a staff where "everybody thinks the same way." This is a noble impulse, and varying viewpoints certainly do enliven intellectual debate. But Ambrosino's views aren't merely different; they're ill-informed and dishonest. The grand irony here is that Klein himself has made a career out of being a centrist wonk who's careful with facts.
Vox's decision to hire Ambrosino shows why it's so important to have diversity not just among writers but also among the management at journalistic institutions. As Klein admits, he's not the best judge of journalism on LBGT issues. Which is sort of the point: Not having a gay person in Vox's leadership—someone who is familiar with the fault lines and sensitivities of the debate—leaves editors vulnerable to making tone-deaf decisions. If Klein wanted a smart young voice on gay rights, he had scores of brilliant, journalistically sound, responsible queer journalists to choose from—Slate's Stern comes immediately to mind, as does Metro Weekly's Justin Snow. Perhaps Klein didn't know where to look, but given the promise and resources of Vox, it's incumbent on leaders like him to do more than post job openings online; if you want diversity, you have to work at it. Cheap traffic, on the other hand, is low-hanging fruit.
Ambrosino fits a mold the bright new media loves: He's a nerdy white kid whose contrarian views stir the pot. There is no question, especially given the sketchy quality of Ambrosino's work, that the allure of having someone gay parrot anti-gay views has led editors to look at him and think, "interesting." His formula is tired, if effective: He throws bombs into the gay community, and his editors call the explosion a debate. It's disappointing, to say the least, that a journalism venture with the tremendous promise and resources of Vox Media is relying on that cheap trick.
ADDENDUM: Ezra Klein has taken issue, via e-mail message, with my characterization of his reading of Ambrosino's work prior to hiring him: "I read most of the stories of Brandon's that became controversial prior to the hire," Klein writes. "I didn't read everything he's ever written, of course, but the impression your story appears to have given folks—that I read nothing he did before hiring him—is wrong, and I'd appreciate a clarification."
The story accurately reflects the notes I took during my interview with Klein. Here are the relevant notes, quoting Klein's answer to my question about his familiarity with Ambrosino's controversial stories before the hiring:
The piece about Brandon's experience at Liberty University was a personal narrative that showed the way people who have a pretty bigoted worldview react with more compassion when confronted with a person. The TNR piece, read today—it seemed to be saying that the exclusion of gay people is wrong no matter what reason their gay is. Seemed to me incredibly strong argument against morality of discrimination in any context. These things have clearly raised alarm bells that speak to a debate that I am not always in. Definitely didn't read them, but when I did didn't come away with the impression that he holds an iota of homophobia.
Klein has elaborated in a post on Facebook that he read "a lot of" of Ambrosino's previous published work before hiring him and gave him an extensive writing test that required him to write eight news articles and two explainers—more than 5,000 words.
*CORRECTION: An earlier version of this piece stated Ambrosino's age as 23. He enrolled at Liberty University in 2003, which would make him 27-28.
Thu, 2014-03-13 17:59
Well said. Your are kinder than I am feeling right now towards Mr. Klein. It's both inconceivable and incredible to me that he would hire this poseur unwittingly. While I've been increasingly less a fan of Klein over the last few years--"centrist wonk" is again kinder than I would have put it--he is usually a reasonably conscientious journalist. But if this decision, his awkward defense of it, and so far at least no change of heart, obtains, I can't see why I would bother with Vox. Recognizing the depth of his mistake by getting rid of Ambrosino would be about the only thing that would change my mind. Sure, that would be a hard and embarrassing move for Klein, but a brave one, too.
Thu, 2014-03-13 18:14
This confirms what a lot of people have said about the American left: it really doesn't believe in free speech. If the gay community objections to the Vox Media hire: don't read Vox Media, but you can't tell Klein to NOT hire this guy because your disagree with is political or social views.
Now you know what black people have to suffer through with the like of Ben Carson and Hermain Caine.
Thu, 2014-03-13 19:28
Thu, 2014-03-13 20:04
The problem is not his perspective, it's his total lack of education on the issues. When he pretends that he understands gender identity and then makes completely uninformed comments about gender identity (there is a very BIG difference between intersex people and transgender people), it shows he is NOT an informed voice. I would be willing to discuss his contrary opinions if he could show himself to be well-informed on the subject. He isn't.
If Ezra Klein wants a spectrum of opinions, I would hope he hires some very radical anti-theist AND a fundamentalist to have a go at each other. Or he could hire someone who is a knowledgeable and articulate writer in support of gay issues to be the foil to this poor prospect's position.
Fri, 2014-03-14 00:23
Thu, 2014-03-13 18:28
Thu, 2014-03-13 20:03
Great article Gabe! I wish I could say I was shocked at Klein's utter cluelessness when it comes LGBT issues but over the years I have noticed that the topic clearly makes him uncomfortable. He rarely writes on any LGBT issues and when he has, he comes across as well meaning but disinterested. Unlike his friend Chris Hays, who is an excellent ally and works hard to incorporate LGBT issues in his work, both in print and on television. I do empathize with straight liberal male nerdy wonks in a way - they are usually criticized as insufficiently masculine by the right so many of them are probably sensitive about being deemed gay by a homophobic and heterosexist culture. However, that doesn't fully explain or mitigate Klein's utter cluelessness in this matter.
I am also a bit worried about his use of "ideological diversity" to deflect away from the real issues of diversity. This is a trope used by the Right all the time to deny the effects of structural racism, sexism and homophobia and the use of the token minority conservative as a red herring. Ideological diversity is a platitude and usually ends up meaning the same old he said/she said "balanced" journalism.
Thu, 2014-03-13 21:00
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Fri, 2014-03-14 00:02
When we were children and playing any type of sports game we often had disagreements,
"That is foul."
"No it's not it's in"
"It's Foul"
"It's In"
"I say it's foul"
"I say it's in"
"Let's Do Over"
That is what Ezra Klein needs to do, he needs to do a "Do Over"
Start the search all over again. Tweet out, as I see Mother Jones, Buzzfeed, Arcus Foundation, NAACP, tweet out when they have an opening they are trying to fill. And direct your tweets to maybe some people who are already in the industry.
I want to put a word in for hiring a Lesbian writer, why a male writer? How to find Lesbian writers? Go to Lesbian websites and blogs, you will find them hanging out over there. The term for this is recruiting often times the best people are not looking for work, you have to go out and find them. After all these writers are going to produce your end product. Why on earth would you stay with someone, when you haven't even launched yet, who you have received such bad reviews of?
Assuming Ezera is straight does he NOT want sexual minorities to read his website? It is not just AmericaBlog, I have been reading negative articles about Ambrosino on all the main gay blogs, Joe My God (20 Million Page Views a Year) The New Civil Rights Movement (over 35,000 Twitter Followers, last I looked), Good As You, and if I remember right Box Turtle Bulletin.
Ezra pay attention, all those gay blogs, they are going to tear VOX down if you start running articles by Ambrosino. It is not just John Aravosis opinion on Ambrosino, it is virtually universal. God Forbid Queer Nation New York notices, that would be a huge problem. The gay community is united on this guy Ambrosino, I have not read one supporting word on him ever, and they have covered ALL his gay self hating stories.
Ezra, Do Over.
Fri, 2014-03-14 01:12
Fri, 2014-03-14 03:57
I loved Ezra's comment - ""I don't want to pretend that I have the context and the background to perfectly or authoritatively judge this debate,". I guess this also means he cannot judge women's issues, African American issues, Asian issues, Latin issues, Christian issues, immigrant issues, parental issues, and maybe even conservative issues. Hey Vox, just what good is he anyway? He seems rather self-limiting in his own competence to..uh..you know - think critically.
Fri, 2014-03-14 11:48
Clearly he can't judge African-American issues, because he made no comment about Brandon Ambrosino's frequent use of Imaginary Conservative MLK as a racist prop.
Hell, when sportswriter Bill Simmons made his incredibly huge mistake as editor of Grantland, he owned up to it:
Ezra Klein is coming off sleazier than Bill Simmons.
I wasn't expecting magical rainbow unicorns to come out of Vox, but I wasn't expecting THAT.
Fri, 2014-03-14 09:55
Desert Sun
Fri, 2014-03-14 12:58
Why be surprised? Klein is the "liberal" who's always Establishment in his thinking. The whole contrarian business is generally out of control among most institutions including the press, the pursuit of celebrity being more important than pursuit of the truth or providing honest reportage.
Fri, 2014-03-14 16:56
Diversity but at what cost. There was probably a time when each story about the NAACP had to be balanced with a quote from the Klan. I am so glad those days are gone. They are not gone at Vox. Sadly. On the upside, there are enough other news/opinion outlets online.
Sat, 2014-03-15 16:33
As a 56-year gay man and a confirmed leftist, I am hardly a wonder kid. I likely wouldn't hire Ambrosino if I were trying to put together a writing team, but if I had other concerns, such as quickly generating media attention or buzz, I might. The solution to bad speech is more speech, not less. If one doesn't like what Ambrosino writes, write in response, write other things, write in the comments. Other editors will hire other people and, given the web's rather low entry, some bloggers might just get started in reaction. There isn't any real problem with hiring Ambrosino. Don't like what he writes? Don't read him. I don't watch Fox News for that reason.
Anyone who has even the slightest pretense of supporting civil liberties and liberal politics supports people writing what they want, whatever the view point.
Tue, 2014-07-22 02:16
I have several gay friends. At least 3 of them claim to have left the life-style. One of the 3 complained, "I could tell anyone I was gay, and they believed me. I believed me. Even if I had said, 'I know I look like a man, but I'm really a woman, and I want corrective surgery,' I would have gotten support from the gay community. But, if I say, 'I was mistaken, I am not gay. I very much enjoy being straight,' then I get called a liar and a traitor. I do not understand the hatred I get."
He was active in the gay rights organizations and parades in San Francisco in the 1980's when AIDS first began to be noticed. His partner died of AIDS, but he himself never got it. He firmly believed he was "born gay" and lived as a gay man until about 15 years ago.
Then, on his own, with a great deal of introspection, he came to the conclusion that any pleasure felt when he had been molested by an older new step brother had just been a yearning for male affection, and not sexual attraction. None of his series of male sexual partnerships as an adult had ultimately been satisfying.
About 11 years ago he married a woman.
I knew him before, during, and after his agonizing switch in orientation.
What is so difficult about just believing him when he says he switched from gay to strait? He did not even need any surgery or hormone treatments to accomplish it, only a change of outlook.
People are different. Brandon Ambrosino is different. Get over it. Let him talk. Believe he is telling it like he sees it. He is gay, you are gay. That does not mean you must be alike.
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When Zak Powers took on a job to photograph a collection of historic buildings, he may not have realized the long process he would undergo. One of the most ambitious and sensitive examples of preservation on the East End, the historic buildings of Further Lane have made the journey from old houses to hated memorials and, finally, to a sign of new beginnings.
The collection of 11 historic buildings has been reconstructed as the new East Hampton Town Hall. Stately, with deep brown wood and well-fitted beams, concerned citizens and politicians will now sit and work under these roofs.
"These buildings have been symbols of many things," Powers said. "Unfortunately, because of outside circumstances, they've been a symbol of financial crisis … But now, they can be appreciated for what they are — these amazing historic artifacts that represent the town [of East Hampton]."
The result of Powers' photographic record of the new (or rather, old) Town Hall buildings of East Hampton is the book, "Further Lane," which includes a written introduction by the architecture critic, Paul Goldberger. On Saturday, July 23, the publishers of "Further Lane," W.W. Norton and the Quantuck Lane Press will hold a Town Hall reception centered on the book's release. The event will feature a book signing and exhibition. The community can tour the Town Hall structures from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 159 Pantigo Road in East Hampton.
"It's just so wonderful to be experiencing this, not just for me, but for the whole town," Powers said. "I'm so grateful the book came together. But really, I'm thrilled that now people can have these beautiful historic records, so to speak, as their place of government."
The 11 buildings have had fascinating histories — if not reputations — from the beginning. Years ago, Adelaide de Menil and her husband, Edmund Carpenter, began buying historic barns originally built on the South Fork and had them moved to their Further Lane property. Carpenter was an anthropologist and de Menil a history lover; both were fascinated by examples of the "first representations of the timber frame barn. And here they were, all but forgotten. They wanted to save them," according to Powers.
After collecting 14 barns and houses, the couple's 40-acre property on Further Lane became a "living museum" of historic architecture. According to Powers, de Menil and Carpenter wanted these structures to be "sanctuaries" for artists and writers in the community.
"Adelaide always wanted people to use these houses … she wanted to keep the property alive," Powers said. "When she hired me to document them, she suggested I move here with my family to record everything, to keep the houses alive. Ed was an anthropologist as well, so this was incredibly important to him too — keeping these historic buildings."
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Moving the homes became a two-year process. Powers documented it all, every step of the way. His photos showcase the immense effort and planning that went into moving 11 historic structures. When they finally hoisted the buildings up, they moved them down Route 27 via remote control machinery.
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"NHRA picked up on this," Bobby Bennett, publisher/editor of CompetitionPlus.com, a leading drag-racing Internet magazine, explains. "If the NHRA was going to bring in one class, it had to kill one class-and the one to go was Modified Eliminator, a class largely dominated by midyear Sting Rays. The Pro Gas style of 9.80-second indexed bracket racing opened up NHRA's back gates to participants who had previously been shunned by the elite group of class racers who dominated the Sportsman program. All of a sudden, there was an outlet for bracket racers who didn't fit into a Comp, Modified, Super Stock, or Stock classification to race the national events. And best of all for the NHRA, there was less time involved in teching the cars.
"Basically, with the advent of S/G 9.90-second indexed racing, it didn't matter if the racer had a corporate serial number on the cylinder heads. What mattered is that he or she had the proper safety equipment and could run the 9.90 index. That's why the NHRA was all too happy to kick Modified Eliminator to the curb in favor of Super Gas. It could get more cars involved, and with less tech headaches."
The first NHRA Super Gas race got its green light at Pomona, California, in 1980. Four years later, in 1984, Tommy Costales, then a 32-year-old race-car engine builder, earned his place in history by becoming the first Corvette racer to win the NHRA Super Gas World Championship, beating out a field of 160-plus race cars, including 25 to 30 other Vettes. His weapon-an original-body '67 Tuxedo Black Sting Ray with a 505ci big-block.
"Vegas and Anglias were really popular in the class back then," Costales recalls. "There were a number of midyear Corvettes and a few C3s in the class, but Corvettes didn't dominate the S/G races."
"In these early days of the Super Gas class-1980 through 1984 primarily-it wasn't rare to see real factory-bodied Corvettes, like Tommy Costales' '67, competing in the class," Bennett notes. "When the NHRA killed Modified Eliminator, the Corvette racers had three choices-dump a lot of money into their cars and go Comp racing, go breakout racing within Super Stock, or essentially do nothing and make their cars run 9.90 and move over to Super Gas."
According to Bennett, most of these old, factory-bodied S/G Corvettes died out in the '90s. The cost of classic Corvettes had skyrocketed, and converting them into S/G race cars was expensive and impractical. That allowed aftermarket companies-Suncoast, Worthy, and Tim McAmis Performance Parts, among others-to begin building and marketing fiberglass '63 Corvette roadster bodies, which quickly became the default for racers wanting to campaign midyear Corvettes in the S/G class.
Today, there are more Corvettes racing in S/G than at any other time in the sport's 30-year history-and it's not just '63-'67 Vettes that have gotten in on the action. C5 Vettes have made their way into the class as well, making the past several years the new Golden Age of S/G Corvette racing.
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This matzo-stuffed chicken is Jewish family fare during Passover holidays. The stuffing is so different from the usual bread-based kind that regardless of religion or time of year, you should try it. If you are able, put some of the stuffing under the skin of the bird.
1 fat fowl, 4 to 4 ½ pounds
Soak the chicken in salted ice-cold water for 1 hour. Soak matzo in lukewarm water till soft, then squeeze till dry.
Cook chopped onion, covered, in 2 tablespoons of the chicken fat; do not brown. After 5 minutes add chicken livers, parsley and mushrooms. Cook, covered, for another 5 minutes. Let the mixture cool.
Add squeezed matzo and put the whole mixture through the grinder. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add eggs and bread crumbs and mix well. Let the stuffing rest for a couple of hours.
Mix in 6 tablespoons chicken fat
Remove chicken from ice-cold water, wipe it well inside and outside and salt it. Fill with the stuffing. Sew up the opening.
Spread 2 tablespoons of chicken fat on the bottom of a baking pan. Put in tomato, sliced onion and green pepper. Add garlic, a sprinkle of salt and ¼ cup water.
Spread remaining 2 tablespoons fat on top of the chicken, put the chicken in the pan, cover the pan, and cook the chicken on top of the stove over low heat. Baste often.
Preheat the oven to 475° F. When the chicken is done, take it out of the pan and keep it warm. Put vegetables through a sieve or blender to make sauce.
Put chicken back in the pan and place it in the preheated oven for about 10 minutes to make it brown and crisp.
Serve the sauce separately.
Yield: 6 to 8 servings
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"Bridge? You mean that card game for old ladies?" some of you may ask. Yes, that's the feeling one gets when one sees bridge in a movie, yet bridge is much more than that. Tournament bridge actually is the only card game in which card luck plays norole at all.
"Now how is that possible?" you may ask "The cards wil, after all, be random, won't they"?
Indeed, the cards are randomly dealt, yet everybody plays the same deals.
"Ok, but at a table the cards the players hold are still different, and hence they will favor one pair or the other".
Ah, but here comes the little trick: It is the mode of the tournaments that does it. Basically there are two different knids of tournament modes:Pair torunaments and team tournaments. Let us start with the team tournaments; it is easier to explain there.
In team tournaments a team consists of two pairs, who play against another team. Let's call them team A and B.
Now pair 1 of team A will play several boards (a board is a single game of bridge; it is called that way because the cards are predealt and put into special boards, so the deal can easily be transported from table to table) against pai one of Team B. The second pairs also play against each other, but with cards reversed.so that in the whole all teams get the same cards. Now you only have to compare the results from the two tables, et voila!
With pair tournaments it is a bit different, but basically the same. Since it would usually take too long to have all pairs coupled against each other only a few rounds will be played with a certain number of boards each, then the pairs will get up, go to another table and face other opponents in the next round.
Now it is clear that the same method can not quite be applied, so for pair tournaments there are two ratinss; and each pair tournament has two winning pairs, onen for the N/S holdings and one for the E/W holdings. (the places the four players sit in are named after the points of the compass). Now all the pairs of hte N/S holdings will be compared agaisnt each other,and all the pairs ofthe E/W holdings too. They will all have held the same cards, and again card luck is completely out of the question.
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FORT WALTON BEACH — Charles Coons' stories sound like the stuff of movies but, to him, they are memories.
The World War II Army Air Corps veteran can still remember vivid details of his wartime adventures, from the time he crash landed a plane to jumping out of a B-17 just before it caught fire.
But the 93-year-old will never say he was brave or courageous. He was just doing his job.
"I think I was probably too dumb to know what was going on," said Coons, sitting on his walker.
The walls of Coons' Neptune Court home are decorated with personal memorabilia, from photos of planes he flew to many medals displayed in a shadowbox. Nearby, a black-and-white photo shows Coons alongside the rest of the 303rd Hell's Angels Bombardier Squadron.
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While his glory days are behind him, Coons' blue eyes still light up at a chance to tell his tale from the very beginning.
When he was just 3 years old, his father took him to see an airplane show — one of the first to occur, according to Coons. It was the moment the plane soared into the sky that Coons knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life.
He was going to be a pilot.
"I thought, 'I'll bet this will be fun. I'm going to fly me one of those things.' And that was the start," Coons said. "I wanted to fly and be a pilot all my life. So when I could, I did."
At the ripe age of 22 in 1943, he joined the Air Corps and after a short training session was made to be a co-pilot of a plane he said he had never flown. It would be two more years before the war would end.
"I remember being in the barracks in a bed that was in the middle when I saw that all the beds to my left were empty. Those were all the people that had gotten shot down," Coons said. "That's when I thought I might have volunteered for the wrong thing."
On one of his final missions while in Frankfurt, Germany, Coons said he was flying when the No. 2 propeller "took a bad lick." He said the crew heard an "eerie sound" when the propeller stopped and the plane went out of formation.
From there, the crew fought off a German fighter plane behind them and thought they were done when they saw a second fighter plane coming at them head on.
"I thought the end had come," Coons said. "I remember thinking, 'Oh crud, this is it.' "
The second plane, as it turned out, was a P-47, an American plane coming to the rescue. But that was not the end of the journey for Coons. Soon after the German plane had left, the crew had to deal with their second dilemma — a propeller not working and no electronics functioning in the plane.
Coons said at that time he was ready to steer the plane home and hope for the best. After a battle with the pilot, they were headed home when the entire engine seized.
"Wouldn't you believe it?" Coons said.
That's when the crew spotted a British runway and made a crash landing. The crew was able to manually work the landing gear and the plane stopped without a single injury.
In another episode, Coons said he and his crew were testing a B-17 that had been patched up after being shot in the fuel tank. A self-described "showboat," Coons was doing tricks in the plane when gasoline started leaking.
Before he was able to get the plane to a stop, the back of the plane had caught fire.
"The two guys in the back shouted at me that it was getting hot, and before I knew it they had jumped out of the plane that was going 30 mph on the runway," Coons said. "That was a close one. I was the last one off and just when I reached everyone else that plane exploded."
Coons laughed at the memory. He kept a copy of the magazine that published the story when it happened in 1944.
During his time in the military, Coons saw the air fire during D-Day at the invasion of Normandy, fought in the Korean War, flew for the 303rd Bomb Squad and the 360th Bomb Squad and retired as a lieutenant colonel after testing droids with Eglin Air Force Base. He earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and an Air Medal.
"To him, it's no big deal," said Coons' son, Pat Coons. "To me, it's the stuff right out of the movies and I think other men like my father are the same. It's just what they did. He got paid.
"But what these 20-something year olds did was just amazing."
Coons doesn't like to talk about the men who didn't make it home. He prefers to share the stories that keep his audience on the edge of their seats until the happy ending — making it out just in the nick of time.
"I was the most naive little boy," Coons said. "I was just the boy from a small town in Kentucky and I wasn't prepared for what I was getting myself into. When I went to war it was like I was in 'Alice in Wonderland,' except people got hurt."
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LAUREL HILL — Many residents who crowded First Baptist Church of Laurel Hill's fellowship hall Tuesday night said this north county community should dissolve its city status.
The City Council wanted residents' input on whether it should place a dissolution option on an upcoming ballot. Resident Harold Jones' comments on poor road conditions during a Nov. 15 council meeting spurred the town hall.
Residents mainly discussed the main roads' disrepair and expressed concerns about how their tax dollars were spent. Most favored dissolution.
"My position is that we are in the county and we all need to make (the city of) Laurel Hill go away," Harold Jones said.
"I'm for it," Deborah Adams, a Laurel Hill School teacher, said. "If Laurel Hill is no longer a city, that does not mean that they are going to erase those letters off the map."
A few residents favored Laurel Hill remaining a city.
Despite the city's high debt and low reserves, the likelihood of Okaloosa County repairing the roads, post-dissolution, would be a "pipe dream," Mike Blizzard said.
"We're not going to be in any better shape than we are now," he said, adding the sole difference would be the area's municipality loss.
The city has $380,000 in reserves; just $272,000 is available at the city's discretion. This could cover infrastructure, paying down debt or equipment purchases. However, about 14 miles of roadway need repairs; about 55 percent of them need asphalt resurfacing, which would cost about $60,000 per mile, Okaloosa County Public Works Director John Hofstad said.
The remainder would require reconstruction, which would cost two to three times as much.
Florida Rep. Doug Broxson, Okaloosa County Commissioner Nathan Boyles and Hofstad offered moral support, but did not express stances on the dissolution issue.
However, Hofstad gave the issue perspective.
"We just want to be very clear that if your goal is to dissolve the city and become unincorporated in Okaloosa County, it's not like we show up the next day and start repaving roads," Hofstad said after the meeting. "We have a process we go through."
The county commission must approve funding for road repairs, and that's just part of the lengthy process, he said. Nevertheless, "we certainly want to help out Laurel Hill where we can … and we certainly will in the future."
During the meeting, an audience member asked the council to give input.
Council Chairman Larry Hendren and Co-chairman Robby Adams said they favored dissolution. Councilman Clifton Hall said he wants Laurel Hill to remain a city. Council members Betty Williamson, Willie Mae Toles and Mayor Joan Smith expressed no preference.
While discussing the issue, Toles shared her dissatisfaction with the current mayor.
"Laurel Hill was all right until she got here," she said.
The audience applauded the statement.
Hendren encouraged residents to call city hall with questions on the matter and do research before deciding on the issue.
Resident Scott Moneypenny agreed.
"The citizens of Laurel Hill need all the information that is possibly available before making a decision to dissolve a city," he said. "Because once you lose the infrastructure, there is going to be problems that people cannot foresee."
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Oh for crying out loud, another think-i-know-it-all loudmouth.
"When big guys join up (like Opera now) and hopefully Mozilla and Microsoft everyone would be contributing to the Webkit/Chromium code (whichever it is)."
Ever actually looked at what data chrome sends back to google about what you do?
Also please show me where the phasing out of other competition has ever been a good thing? (I'll save you some time - it hasn't)
Posted 13 February 2013 - 12:39
I'm pretty sure you're switching everyone working on a standard with everyone working on an open source project. It's going to create the same mess, with each company forking it for their own purposes. Except now, it's even worse. They'll still be arguing over what should be the standard behavior. The result is:
V8 and Webkit based Chromium are simply the most advanced browser/VM today.. and instead of everyone peddling their own things they should all work on the same thing.
The situation is not any better since WHATWG split with W3C.. now they'll be pushing new features that are not really a part of the standards until W3C takes another decade to evaluate and try to make them standard if that happens, in the meantime you will see the same things happening as they have in the last 5 years with HTML5 (wild wild west). Promise of ubiquity that just works that is clearly pure BS and is still nowhere near ready for prime time.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 12:47
Not great news. The less competition the more we end up with sub-standard standards implementation and propriety hacks. As much as i currently love WebKit, it's well on it's way to becoming the next IE6.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 12:55
FANTASTIC NEWS... my dream of unified web where we don't have to write 15 CSS lines and use polyfills for a single thing and tons of libraries to make stuff look the same across browsers is coming true.
Hopefully Mozilla joins Webkit train and finally we will have Microsoft forced to switch as well..
If this happens then we can truly start phasing out Flash as building for web will be beautiful. Not to mention that the tools we will get will be as good as Flash professional as there won't be compatibility issues due to unified rendering engine and spaghetti code for 5 different browsers. This fragmentation has been destroying web for a while now. And companies can contribute with cool features like Adobe is doing with CSS3 Shaders, Blend modes and so on and it can be quickly implemented on all browsers.
THEN, we can truly say open web and browsers offer now truly unified rendering and all the cool features Flash has now and that we can't (or have hard time) doing in HTML5/JS/CSS will be implemented in Webkit.
The dream.. is just a bit closer.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 16:39
Nah, Mozilla wants an open, standards based web, and even Microsoft seems to want a standards based web now, which is seemingly more at odds with WebKit's "do whatever and get web authors to rely on it" attitude.
WebKit is the new IE6 now.
Posted 13 February 2013 - 17:45
I wonder, since they've mentioned Chromium, if they'll base the next Opera on that rather than WebKit2? It sounds to me like they're going to fork Chromium.
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Jamie-Lynn Sigler attends Glamour Magazine's Toast to 35 Women Under 35 in Hollywood at Eveleigh, Aug. 6, 2013 in West Hollywood, Calif.
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Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell eat healthy in Venice Calif., at Urth Cafe, July 17, 2013. The actress was not in the mood for pictures today and tried to hide her faze as soon as she saw the paparazzi. The pregnant Mildred Pierce actress tweeted about her food frustrations, July 9. "Whoa. Whoa. Peanut Butter Pop Tarts?! Of course, because I can't smoke any weed right now," she wrote. "Dammit!"
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Jessica Simpson, 32, and her fiance, Eric Johnson, 33, welcomed their second child into the world, a son, Ace Knute, on June 30, 2013. Simpson announced that she was expecting her second child via Twitter on Christmas Day. She tweeted a picture of 7-month-old daughter Maxwell Drew on the beach with "big sis" written in the sand.
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Kim Kardashian welcomed a baby girl June 15, five weeks early, in Los Angeles, Calif., with the baby's father, rapper Kanye West, by her side.
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It was a London delivery for Jenna Dewan-Tatum. The 32-year-old first-time mom welcomed baby girl Everly on May 31, 2013, with husband Channing Tatum, who is shooting his latest film across the pond.
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Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, is expected to make a royal delivery in July. Her first child with Britain's Prince William could one day succeed to the throne.
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Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, who is expecting her second child with Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem, could pop this summer. Their first child, Leonardo, was born on January 22, 2011.
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"Cougar Town" actress Busy Philipps is another second-time mom due any day now. Phillips recently announced that she and husband screenwriter Marc Silverstein, parents of 4-year-old Birdie Leigh, are expecting another girl.
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"My Girl" actress Anna Chlumsky compared bumps with Busy Philipps. First-time mom Chlumsky revealed that she is having a girl. "We'll be dressing her up, let's put it that way," the "Veep" star told People.
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Evan Rachel Wood is another first-time mom due this summer. Married to actor Jamie Bell, she tweeted the news in January: "Remember when I said, 'No baby on the way here?' Well, I didn't know there actually was!"
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"Today" weekend anchor Jenna Wolfe not only announced that she was expecting her first child, she came out publicly with her partner, NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk. The couple is expecting a baby girl at the end of August.
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Hilaria Baldwin and Alec Baldwin are expecting a girl this summer. It will be the first child for Hilaria. Alec is the father of 17-year-old model Ireland Baldwin with ex-wife Kim Basinger.
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"Sopranos" star Jamie-Lynn Sigler is expecting a boy in August. He will be the first child for Sigler and her fiance, pro baseball player, Cutter Dykstra.
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Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum is expected to give birth this summer. Scott and her husband, drummer Chris Tyrrell, announced they were expecting last December: "Chris & I are excited to announce that our Christmas gift has arrived a little early this year! We are having a BABY! We feel so blessed!!!"
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Rob PetersThe CBD is the heartbeat of every major city and it is no different for Cape Town. The city centre is the pulse of the Mother City, providing the lifeblood of the surrounding areas. It is a melting pot of diversity and culture, a smorgasbord of historical influences and a place like no other on earth. If you really want to get underneath the skin of Cape Town, you need to start in the city.
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Top Braai Spots for Reconciliation Day
If there is one thing Capetonians are good at – other than socialising, of course – it's braaing. Whether it's meat or fish, you can be sure that on a spectacular summer's day (or even on a winter's day), you will find us gathered around the fire, enjoying each other's company, the tantalising aroma of meat on the grill and our breathtaking city views.
Top 15 Boutique Hotels in Cape Town
If, like mine, your heart beats faster at the feel of a goose down duvet, the smell of lilies, Molton Brown hand cream and the taste of the perfectly poached egg, these boutique hotels are right up your alley.
A Visitor's Guide to Accessible Cape Town
Cape Town can, with some careful planning, deliver a really enjoyable holiday experience for visitors with special access needs. Whilst we have some distance to go to being a completely Universally Accessible (UA) destination, awareness is on the rise and with it the number of improvements made to our city.
Top Design Hotels in Cape Town
Big, small, BIG - size does not define a design hotel. It is the meeting place of form and function; a style that is unique, technology that is responsive and an environmentally considerate build. Whether your design preference is modern, classic or retro, Cape Town caters to all tastes.
Pocket-friendly Cape Town Accommodation
One hundred pounds will get you a one-star hotel room in New York and two stars in London or Venice. In Cape Town, on average, you'll get a four-star hotel room for £100 a night. Here's a selection ranging from luxurious guesthouses to comfortable hotel rooms and top of the range backpackers with a healthy dose of comfort, if not downright glamour.
'Da Vinci: The Genius' comes to Cape Town
Walking through the 'Da Vinci: The Genius' exhibition at the Chavonnes Battery Museum in the V&A Waterfront, is like stumbling upon a porthole leading to a brilliant mind.
Grapes, Gourmet and Gallery Evening at Winchester Mansions
Walking toward Winchester Mansions, with the Atlantic Ocean stretched out to our right and the clouds folding over Table Mountain to the left, the promise of a 5-course wine-paired meal was the highlight of our day.
My Top Five Picnic Spots in Cape Town
Even the word picnic is loaded with nostalgia; for me it holds memories of homemade frikkadels, chicken drumsticks and large cold drinks enjoyed with friends and family in special places. Your picnic basket may have changed, as mine has. The frikkadels and drumsticks are from the deli and the chilled drink is more likely to be a local wine. What does remain the same is sharing this time with loved ones, in places that leave me feeling inspired and relaxed.
Tenting, camping and glamping in Cape Town
Camping holidays, camper vans and tented accommodation no longer needs to be associated with cold showers and canned beans. The increased demand for, and supply of, luxury tented accommodation has helped standard camping to evolve into glamping, which is glamorous camping.
One-day road trips from Cape Town
Did you know that Cape Town is one of the largest cities in the world in terms of surface area? It exceeds cities like London, Buenos Aires, Moscow, Kuala Lumpur, Rio de Janeiro and many more in sheer size. Add to space the elements of beauty – the city of Cape Town is situated in the smallest and richest of the world's six floral kingdoms – and cultural diversity and you are met with a city where inspiration lurks behind every corner, waiting to be discovered. Pack your favourite road trip tracks; whether it is Creedence Clearwater Revival who inspired the theme of this blog or local sounds, a map and let the open road take you where it will.
Climate Smart Cape Town Pavilion wins at COP17
The Climate Smart Cape Town Pavilion has won the best outdoor and best overall stand in the Climate Change Response Expo at COP17. The pavilion, constructed from 1884 plastic milk crates and more than 22,000 plastic bottles, is a completely sustainable structure that will be dismantled after COP17, with all materials re-used.
…XYZ Design: Informed and inspired by Cape Town
Cape Town is one of only three cities shortlisted for the World Design Capital 2014 title, along with Dublin (Ireland) and Bilbao (Spain). Byron Qually, director of …XYZ Design, an award-winning design firm globally recognised for its leading and innovative design solutions, shared with us how Cape Town has both informed and inspired safe and environmentally friendly designs.
A million points of view at Cape Point
Cape Point has captivated travellers since sighted by Bartolomeu Dias in 1488 and continues to call, amongst others, nature lovers, adventurers and photographers to its shores. Few destinations boast a more scenic journey, all the way along the coast to the southwestern tip of Africa. We wanted to share some of the sights and moments captured by the wide lenses of our visitors.
New map traces Charles Darwin's Cape Town visit
Mist rolling over Lion's Head, photo courtesy Shaen Adey "This is a pretty and singular town; it lies at the foot of an enormous wall (the Table Mountain), which reaches to the clouds, and makes a most imposing barrier – Cape Town is a great inn, on the great highway to the east; an extraordinary number of houses are occupied as boarding houses, in one of which I am now settled…" So wrote one of the world's most important natural scientists, Charles Darwin, in 1836 to his sister Catherine of his visit to Cape Town.
The secret life of a chocolatier
La Chocolaterie Maya, the setting for the movie Chocolat, exists for me as the perfect chocolaterie. The deep aroma of cocoa swirling around, antique tiles on the floor, glass pots with their rich bounty of glistening dark, milk and white chocolate adorned with Maraschino cherries, almonds and sugared fruit and yes, if I'm honest … Johnny Depp casually leaning against the doorframe.
An historic day for rugby in Cape Town
A ball sails through the posts as The Vodacom Stormers build a lead. Photograph: Aslam Levy. The first recorded rugby game in South Africa took place on Green Point Common in 1862, and on Saturday, 40 000 supporters witnessed the inaugural rugby match at the newly built Cape Town Stadium on Green Point Common.
A glamorous day in Cape Town
January is home to the J&B Met and South African horse racing at its best. The thrill of betting on your favourite horse can only be rivalled by the pleasure of draping yourself in haute couture and sipping sparkling wine with the who's who of the social scene. How to spend the day before the event? Here are some ideas for a perfectly glamorous day that will see you looking stylish and "walking into the party like you were walking on to a yacht", to quote Carly Simon.
Bonnie Tyler live in Cape Town
With hit songs 'Lost in France', 'It's a Heartache', 'Holding out for a Hero' and 'Total Eclipse of the Heart', and more than 100 million records sold during her career, it is little wonder that Bonnie Tyler is regarded as the 'First Lady of Rock'. She will be performing at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on 6 and 7 September 2013. Read our interview with her and learn about her desire to visit Table Mountain, what inspires her musically and her secret '80s crush.
The good life in Cape Town
The interior of Vanilla October and November 2009 brought several sensational newcomers to the world of luxury living in Cape Town. The Cape Quarter has become my new favourite haunt for décor shopping, simply browsing and grazing from one restaurant to the other.
Design Indaba 2010
Design Indaba 2008, photo courtesy Sebastian Denef In a month dedicated to design on Time Out Tourist, we end February 2010 with a question. When was the last time you were moved by a truly great design? And yes, the design of your golf course counts, as does that fabulous wire art piece you bought for your home. Good design makes our lives easier, more comfortable, more beautiful and often, our experiences more enriching.
Cape Town Opera 2011: A season of elegance and eclecticism
Photo provided by the Cape Town Opera Cape Town Opera launched their 2011 season to a full house at the Artscape Theatre on February 2, 2011. It was a surprisingly diverse audience, with both sophisticated operagoers and hip, young opera fans bearing testament to the success of the opera's enc!re programme, aimed at making opera accessible to young professionals who love the art and enjoy networking in the city's trendiest spots (while making conversation about contraltos and cabalettas over cocktails). Host and MC Alan Committie even commented at one point in the evening on what a ridiculously good-looking audience it was.
Live Design. Transform Life. Cape Town for World Design Capital 2014
Cape Town is on the shortlist for the World Design Capital 2014. It now stands alongside just two other cities – Dublin (Ireland) and Bilbao (Spain) – in the race to earn the World Design Capital title. The announcement is pivotal for Cape Town's reputation as a destination that has adopted design for transformation and social cohesion. Cape Town Tourism is a proud supporter of the bid for World Design Capital 2014 and will be featuring a series of inspiring, design-focused blogs. We sat down to chat with Iain Harris, MD of Coffeebeans Routes, tour operating company with a niche in creative and cultural urban experiences.
First impressions of COP17
Delegates of COP17 were met with a warm Kwa-Zulu Natal welcome, from the traditional Zulu dancers at King Shaka Airport to the Climate Change Response Expo (CCR) exhibition area and food court, and beyond, in Durban.
Cricket at Sahara Park Newlands – a great start to the summer season
The Champions League T-20 tournament, in October 2012, was a great way to start the cricket season off!
Lewis Pugh: "The Cape of Good Hope is just so graceful"
Lewis Pugh at the North Pole in 2007 Cape Town is home to many inspiring South Africans and we took the opportunity to talk to environmentalist, swimmer and public speaker Lewis Pugh on February 15, during Responsible Tourism Week.
Vakantiebeurs 2011 Prize winners experience Cape Town
When we received an e-mail saying we'd won an eight-day trip to Cape Town, after we entered at the Dutch Vakantiebeurs 2011 travel expo, we almost didn't believe it, but we soon realised that it was true and we then looked forward to a great time. And what an exciting and interesting programme of events we had!
Make History: Name Your Hood
New York, we'll see your SoHo and TriBeCa and raise it with our own Foundry, Downtown and Union Kloof. With six hoods named, the launch party for Hood 8 took place at the arena at Wembley Square on Thursday evening, 1 August 2013.
Coffeebeans Routes Theatre Tour at the Baxter Theatre Centre
Local tour operator Coffeebeans Routes takes "dinner and a show" to new heights with their recently launched Theatre Tour. The setting for this unique experience is the Baxter Theatre Centre at the University of Cape Town, renowned as a vibrant cultural centre with a good relationship with the local and university communities.
Summer sunsets in the city
Camps Bay sunset, photo courtesy Neil Howard "It was the cooling hour, just when the rounded red sun sinks down behind the azure hill…" Cape Town is a city of such magnificent natural beauty that one would be justified in quoting Lord Byron when speaking of it – more so because this specific poem speaks of a city with a mountain to one side and a deep, calm sea to the other.
Rainbow Experience brightens Mandela Rhodes Place
The Rainbow Experience, a multi-level concept store, launched at Cape Town hotel and lifestyle complex Mandela Rhodes Place on Tuesday, September 1. Described as a destination store that showcases South African innovation and design, The Rainbow Experience is set around the story, life and leadership of former president Nelson Mandela. The store offers an espresso bar and internet café, experiential learning workshops and a documentary movie experience of Mr Mandela's life, as well as design works, music, fashion, gifts and creative events space. From October, the store will also host jazz jam sessions.


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ARX LTD is the carbon-fibre version of the stem, with Ti bolts. Super-light and super-stiff, it is a highly evolved, modern all-composite design weighing less than 120 g.
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