Wisdom from the skies. We are doomed and even vultures are bored by our future arc. www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/hello-earthlings-we-are-here-to-destroy-you?source=EDT_NYR_EDIT_NEWSLETTER_0_imagenewsletter_Daily_ZZ&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_110519&utm_medium=email&bxid=5be9c8db2ddf9c72dc16d901&cndid=26896655&esrc=&mbid=&utm_term=TNY_Daily
Early in the 1980's I lived in Buenos Aires Argentina and one night a military general gave a televised address attempting to exculpate his martial administration from evidence of decades of human rights abuses. Donald Trump on TV tonight reminded me of this same bullshit. Tell a lie over and over and...
Please check out Death Row Stories this Sunday evening 4/8 on HLN. Focus is on Walter Ogrod, subject of Tom Lowenstein's fine book and innocent inmate of over 25 years. Link here to Philadelphia Inquirer notice about documentary.
37 years ago around this time, midnight in California USA, two cats my housemate Brian and I heard on FM radio that John Lennon had been killed three time zones East in NYC. Hours later, drinking and despairing we lit a small kerosene fire in front of our house and broadcast select Sgt Pepper tracks from our front window onto the early morning streetscape. A two-man Santa Cruz Police unit rolled up and confronted us after a while and one officer asked us if we were looking for trouble. We told him that John Lennon was dead. He returned to his car, presumably confirmed this news via radio, came back to us with a gesture to desist, an empathetic glance, and lastly a somber wave walking back toward his wheels before he and his partner motored off without further comment. RIP John.So today Prez Bozo tweets some nonsense about CNN winning the Fake News Trophy in his fantasy media network lovefest poll, focused on, of course, "Your favorite President (me)". The missive presented a 5th grade level rhetoric of juvenile aggressive playground style. Full on immature effort at sarcasm, pathetic competition fantasy, simplistic favorite-picking... There were more screws loose on display than ever before. Not just a narcissist sociopath, but one stuck in middle school socio-situational development. Explains the penchant for name-calling and belief that repeated denial of facts equals plausible thus irrefutable truth. Can US citizenry escape Him? Can world citizenry survive this mortifying embarrassment?
Is Trump Dracula or Frankenstein? Is the Greek Ghost wired? Who will flip for a Payday Peanut Bar? Which is more the Gremlin, Putin or Sessions? What turkey gets pardoned this Thanksgiving?
Jelani runs it down right as usual (link here) but leaves the question alone as to how best present CONFEDERATE memorials in relevant context. We can't airbrush history and understand it at the same time, so what then? |
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