Re: If you can have dinner with anyone in the world

After I published my Bye, Bye, Bear Blog! post, Khoaly mailed me and invited me to participate in their Bearblog Carnival. I couldn't resist... If you can have dinner with anyone in the world, who would that be?When I was younger, I had a few heroes, or role models, or whatever you want to call them. Roger Taylor, best known as Queen's drummer, was one of them. I loved his music, his "leftist" lyrics, and the way he looked. For a period in the mid-1980s, I even dressed like that. r/blunderyears material, amirite? Another person I deeply admire is Edward Snowden, who showed the American people what they needed to know, doing so at great personal cost. It's been a while since I last saw an interview with him, but something that struck me is that, before he speaks, he always takes a second to think about what he wants to say. What he says is free of hyperbole and exudes deep consideration and intelligence. I remember an interview that Jamie Oliver had with Edward Snowden about how…