Oh, I Don't Have To Say Which Side I Am On, I Can Despise Them All

Albert Maltz?  I've never written a word about him, specifically,  that I recall, why would I?  The closest I got was when I noted the Hollywood 10, as Stalinists supported one of if not the most murderous mass murderer of the modern era.   If Maltz had lived in his workers' paradise he'd have likely gotten purged by his hero, same if he lived in any of he other Marxist countries.   What they whined about the wrongs done to them here were mild compared to what their hero did to writers, artists, scholars, scientists and, hardly least of all workers and poor people.  They were idiots and assholes, no more moral than members of the American Bund.  Nah, I'm so over the commies of Hollywood, too many crocodile tears shed over them, already.

I'm not terribly interested in that over-wrought bit of morally ambiguous American history.  My anti-anti-communist antipathy is matched pretty much by my disgust for the Stainists and Trotsyites and Maoists, etc.  I don't have to choose a side, I can despise them all. 

Stupy always grasps at those same, well worn straws when he finally realizes he's made a public fool of himself.  Which is one of the reasons they're so worn.  That happens a lot since he picked a fight with me.   I always end up kicking his ass. 

I don't know if Maltz was one of the two of The 10 who Billy Wilder said had any talent or if he was one who he said was merely unfriendly.  I saw a few of the movies he wrote, I don't recall being wowed.  I figured he meant Trumbo and Lardner but I could be wrong.