Sunday, May 16, 2021

Fully . . .

https://nextlevelgents.com/signs-of-strong-friendship/
. . . realized production of 'Blood Brother' by OHO (with lyrics here)

I'll be your Blood Brother,
By your side through thick and thin.
I'll be your Blood Brother,
Just as long as I don't have to bloody
My hands. 

Bar rooms sure have a funny way
Of bringing loyalty out in a man.
Buy a drink and tell a joke
And buddy you've got you a friend.
But keep a good eye upon that friend,
Because he really doesn't give two hoots.
And don't say anything about his Mom,
His girlfriend, or his army boots.

Walked into an auto-mo-showroom.
I need some wheels but got no money to spend.
When a guy with an ugly tie
Walks out and acts like he's my long-lost friend.
I said hey Buddy I've a purpose here,
And if you please I will accomplish my goal.
So don't you slap me on the back again,
Cause if you do I might just lose my control.

So please be careful when you meet someone
Who'll make a promise at the drop of a hat.
And don't provide them with encouragement.
You will regret the day you offered him that.
Cause everybody needs some empathy,
But just how willing
And how far will they go
To really help you when the chips are down?
Can they be trusted half as far as you throw them?




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Saturday, May 15, 2021

Kicking . . .

https://www.commanderbill.net/they-came-kicking-screaming-1/

(from https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/04/14/matt-gaetz-is-planning-to-run-anti-cnn-tv-ads-amid-federal-sex-trafficking-probe/?sh=22156c711247)
". . . Rep. Matt Gaetz plans to spend six figures on television ads attacking CNN’s coverage of him, the embattled Florida Republican’s campaign said Wednesday, as Gaetz goes on the offensive and accuses news outlets of falsely stirring up sex trafficking allegations against him. . . Former President Donald Trump and allies like Gaetz frequently grouse about CNN’s coverage. Trump’s campaign and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) have both tried to sue CNN for defamation in recent years, though their suits were tossed out by federal judges, and the Trump administration took away reporter Jim Acosta’s White House press badge until a judge ordered the administration to reinstate it. . ."




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Friday, May 14, 2021

Only . . .

https://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2015/1/2/the-truth-about-mistletoe
. . . "Christmas Song" (albeit cynical) I ever wrote . . . 

Where's the cheer 
That I should feel 
Inside my heart 
This time of year,
While all the televisions
Newspapers and billboards count 
The shopping days for me?

It appears 
To me that I’m 
The only one 
Who doesn’t see
The fine and natural 
Attraction to what seems part race, 
Part obstacle course, I believe. 

Long ago I 
Heard that we 
Celebrate this season;
Anniversary of the birth 
Of someone named Jesus.

Through the years ,
How my perception 
Of it all 
Has gone awry,
When so much manufactured 
Hype and pressurized requirements
Make it all seem a lie.

How I wish, 
Since its the time 
Of year that dreams 
Can come alive,
That you and I see one November, 
When without the retail forecasting,
Some peace on earth, 
Goodwill to all arrives.



(from the album Black & White Then Back)

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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Big . . .

 . . . lie. Big issue. Big principle . . . 

https://www.middlebury.edu/office/big-bird

(from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/opinion/liz-cheney-gop.html)
". . . Trump’s minions at the state level “are focused on giving themselves the power to legally get away with in 2024 what the courts would not let them get away with in 2020.” . . . tell me how American democracy will ever be the same again and how these people can be trusted to cede power the next time they win the White House. . . tell me how America can ever again be a credible observer and upholder of democratic elections around the world — so vital to our national security and the hopes and dreams of democrats in all these countries who look to America as a beacon of democracy and the rule of law. The next time we want to question election results in Russia or Iran or Poland or Hungary . . . They’ll say: “Listen to you? Your Republican Party turned a blind eye to a guy who told the biggest election lie in the history of the Milky Way Galaxy. And it wasn’t even in the service of some urgent, compelling policy. It was just so he could stay in power, salve his ego and deny he lost.”. . . "




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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Rethinking . . .

https://www.shutterstock.com/search/thinker+rodin
. . . democracy
 

(from https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-future-of-democracy/politics-without-politicians)
". . . “Open democracy,” (scholar Hélène Landemore, a professor of political science at Yale) Landemore’s coinage, does not center on elections of professional politicians into representative roles. Leadership is instead determined by a method roughly akin to jury duty (not jury selection): every now and then, your number comes up, and you’re obliged to do your civic duty—in this case, to take a seat on a legislative body. For a fixed period, it is your job to work with the other people in the unit to solve problems and direct the nation. When your term is up, you leave office and go back to your normal life and work. “It’s the idea of putting randomly selected citizens into political power, or giving them some sort of political role on a consultative body or a citizens’ assembly,” said Alexander Guerrero, a professor of philosophy at Rutgers who, in 2014, published an influential paper arguing for random selection in place of elections—a system with some precedents in ancient Athens and Renaissance Italy which he dubbed “lottocracy.” . . . "




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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Toss It . . .

https://www.smartertravel.com/choosing-right-travel-luggage/

Six AM,
The buses aren't nearly as crowded
As the night before.
Someone said there was
Music and laughter 
Behind all the shutters and doors.
What was all of it for?

Who needs friends?
There's barely a minute for breathing.
Everyone here works so hard.
There's no party.
When I reach my doorstep
I struggle to pull out my key.
Where's the meaning for me?

You see but you're unaware
There's life on the other side.
But there's no bridge to cross.
I'm looking through the fog
For some way out of here.
I've baggage here to toss.

Bless my soul!
I've read about you in the paper.
I've seen your picture somewhere.
When you speak it's in volumes and volumes.
I can't hear a word that you say.
Funny it happens that way.

I've been told 
That envy's the thing I've been feeling
For your kind of work and your play.
But to tell you the truth
That it's only a wish 
For a new kind of day,
When worry and fear melt away.

Could be 
That a day will come
When you just might understand.

I’d like to go away.
And go there to stay.
But I can’t find the way.

So it goes,
But change never really comes easy.
Resistance is felt all around. 
But inevitably something happens
That makes the old ship run aground.
We all stare in awe of what’s found.

Like me you appear to be
Looking for some meaning here.




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Monday, May 10, 2021

Blue or Brown? . . .

https://asknature.org/strategy/eyes-give-360-vision/

(from Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson)
". . . after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the turmoil that followed beyond the cornfields that surrounded them, Jane Elliott decided she needed to do something out of the ordinary to teach her dominant-caste students how if felt to be judged on the basis of an arbitrary physical trait - the color of their eyes. She announced to the children that they would do things differently that day. She laid out arbitrary stereotypes for a neutral trait that, for now, in her classroom, would put a student with that trait in essentially the lowest caste. She told the children that brown-eyed people are not as good as blue-eyed people, that they are slower than blue-eyed people, not as smart as blue-eyed people, that, until she said otherwise, the brown-eyed students would not be allowed to drink from the water fountain, that they had to use paper cups instead. . . "If you do that with a whole group of people for a lifetime," she said, "you change them psychologically. You convince (some) that they are superior, that they are perfect, that they have the right to rule and you convince (others)that they are less than. If you do that for a lifetime, what do you suppose that does to them?" . . . "




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