I suspect that his and my views on politics wouldn't jibe but Merle Haggard has earned whatever views he holds.

I really enjoyed the special last night. It was well done, I think- although I don't like the final scene- and it presented him well with halo and warts alike. He said many memorable things- I liked when he said that the only thing he can write is his own life, that everything else would be fiction. In the process he speaks for us all.

It will be some time before I forget how he looked when he said that he sometimes dreams that he is back in San Quentin, doesn't know why he's there, can't find his way out.

And how he looked when he said that Reagan pardoned him.