Time Traveler; Where Newsweek Fears to Tread

Todd, was this you?

Dan Simmons, New Year's Eve, 2005:

"Great, I was thinking. Of all the time travelers in all the gin joints in all the world, I get this racist, xenophobic, right-wing asshole."

This short story by Dan Simmons is a sobering read in spite of the copious consumption of single malt Scotch.

(H.T. Dr. Sanity.)