Over at “Reason” magazine, Brian Doherty has the word (a long word) on the decision of software tycoon John McAfee to seek nomination for president on the Libertarian Party ticket in 2016. McAfee, who hasn’t been seen running armed and naked for a couple of years, had this to say, among other things: “I’m 70 years old, I’ve seen a lot and lived through America’s golden age under Dwight Eisenhower—who was not necessarily a good president but the last one that did not want to be president. He had been a general, in an army controlling nukes and battleships.”
In fact, Ike was never in charge of either nukes, which were the province of the Pacific theater, or battleships (the U.S. Navy). But then, Ike was never suspected of murder either.
Afterwords
Back in 2012, Wired magazine published a long, torrid article by Joshua Davis bearing the torrid title “John McAfee fled to Belize, but couldn’t escape himself”, which explains, sort of, why McAfee moved to Belize, ran around naked with a gun, and then left after police began investigating him on possible involvement in the shooting death of one of his neighbors.
I voted for the last Libertarian candidate, back in 2012, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. McAfee sounds like more of a stretch.
