Thursday, August 25, 2022

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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Manipulation . . .

. . . and the culture war. DON'T let them manipulate YOU!


(from https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/opinion/republicans-environment-climate.html)
". . . Wokeness normally means talking about racial and social justice. On the right — which is increasingly defined by attempts to limit the rights of Americans who aren’t straight white Christians — it has become a term of abuse. Teaching students about the role of racism in American history is bad because it’s woke. But so, apparently, are many other things, like Cracker Barrel offering meatless sausage and being concerned about climate change. . . This may not make much sense intellectually, but you can see how it works emotionally. Who tends to worry about the environment? Often, people who also worry about social justice — either that, or global elites. (Climate science is very much a global enterprise.) . . . What this means is that those people hoping for bipartisan efforts on climate are probably deluding themselves. Environmental protection is now part of the culture war, and neither policy details nor rational argument matters. . ."


Master of Puppets

Metallica



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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Judge . . .

. . . ye NOT!

(from https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/brett-kavanaugh-likes-beer)
". . . "Listen to the people I've grown up with and worked with and played with and coached with and dated and taught and gone to games with and had beers with. . ."
-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

". . . When I was in town I spent much of my time, working, working out, lifting weights, playing basketball, or hanging out and having some beers with friends as we talked about life and football and school and girls. . . "
-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

". . . "The calendars show a few weekday gatherings at friends' houses after a workout or just to meet up and have some beers. . . "
-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

". . . "I drank beer with my friends. Almost everyone did. Sometimes I had too many beers. Sometimes others did. I liked beer. I still like beer, but I did not drink beer to the point of blacking out. . ."
-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

". . . "Yes, we drank beer. My friends and I. Boys and girls. Yes, we drank beer. I liked beer. Still like beer. We drank beer. . ."
-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

". . . "We drank beer and still do. So whatever, yeah. . ."
-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh

". . . "I remember what happened and I think you've probably had beers, Senator. . ."
-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh




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Monday, August 22, 2022

Your Choice . . .

 

Again, as I am inclined to do, 'Check or Carry' is piano improvisation on the the dominant chord pattern from 'Baggage', from the new album 'Grains'.  Since 'baggage' can refer to emotional as well as physical phenomena, we can make the choice between checking or continuing to carry an unnecessary burden?




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Sunday, August 21, 2022

Crime Is . . .

. . . as crime does

(From https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2022/08/13/michelle-goldberg-absurd/)
" . . . He is reportedly motivated to run for president again in part because the office will protect him from prosecution. If we don’t want the presidency to license crime sprees, we should allow presidents to be indicted, not accept some dubious norm that ex-presidents shouldn’t be. . . Trump’s most inflamed fans might act out in horrifying ways; many are heavily armed and speak lustily about civil war. To let this dictate the workings of justice is to accept an insurrectionists’ veto. The far right is constantly threatening violence if it doesn’t get its way. Does anyone truly believe that giving in to its blackmail will make it less aggressive? . . . It was Trump himself who signed a law making the removal and retention of classified documents a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. Those who think that it would be too socially disruptive to apply such a statute to him should specify which laws they believe the former president is and is not obliged to obey. . . The only relevant question is whether he committed a crime, not what crimes his devotees might commit if he’s held to account. . ."


Baggage

from the newly-released album GRAINS



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Saturday, August 20, 2022

Precedent?. . .


(from https://www.theshovel.com.au/2022/08/10/the-shovels-view-on-the-fbis-raid-on-donald-trumps-home/) 
". . . we’re certainly not Trump supporters. But in today’s partisan world, it would be easy to fall into the trap of cheering on the FBI’s actions, without taking a step back to look at the bigger picture. If Trump goes to jail, it opens the door for every lying, corrupt, perverted piece of shit to go to jail too. Is that what we want?. . . "


What Do You Want

- Gotye



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