The Queen and Alan Turing

This morning the Press Democrat ran a story from London. Queen Elizabeth II has "exercised  her royal prerogative of mercy" (gag me) and pardoned Alan Turing, who committed suicide in 1954.  Alan Turing was the British scientist who, in World War II, led the breaking of the German code system called Enigma. No one made a larger contribution to winning that war. A former student of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Turning is credited by many as being the father of artificial intelligence and the age of the computer. In 1952 he was convicted of having sex with a man and chemically castrated. His security clearance was cancelled. He took his own life at age 41. To which I will add this: the Duck Dynasty can kiss my ass.