Bob Higgins was born in Hartford, Conn on 8/17/44. He is a lifelong liberal of the Tom Paine wing and a Marine veteran of Vietnam. He has worked in San Francisco and Chicago as a photographer, cab driver, bartender, carpenter and cabinetmaker. Now semi-retired and partially disabled, he writes about politics and life on his blog Worldwide Sawdust. He's seen it all. He's getting old. Somebody get him a glass of water.