pianogonzology

(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.” . . . "