Silver's bravery not an act  Ann Coulter Syndicated Columnist
Published Monday, March 23, 2009  I wish I could ask Ron Silver
what he thinks of the AIG bonuses. He'd have some original take
-- maybe propose re-opening the bonuses paid to Franklin Raines
and Jamie Gorelick for their yeoman's work running Fannie Mae
into the ground and then collecting bonuses of $90 million and
$24.7 million, respectively. Or maybe he'd just make a joke.
But I can't ask him anymore because Ron died of a rare
esophageal cancer last Sunday.  So now there is one less person
in the world who never chooses his positions to feed a pompous
ego or to stroke his self-image as a thinking person. There was
no point to posturing for Ron: His social standing in Hollywood
was revoked the moment he supported Bush and the Iraq War.
Perhaps Ron always spoke his mind, but I didn't know him when he
was "brave"; I only knew Ron when he was actually brave.  I've
noticed that words like "brave" and "courageous" are mostly used
nowadays to mean "le