"Know The Wild That Wants You"
"Every Songbird Says"
Jun 25, 2018
Monday Music
Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop:
"Sailor To Siren"
"Know The Wild That Wants You"
"Every Songbird Says"
"Know The Wild That Wants You"
"Every Songbird Says"
Jun 24, 2018
Overheard
Politico carried this tasty morsel:
SEN. MARK WARNER (D-Va.) hosted a dinner Friday night for more than 100 guests at his house on Martha’s Vineyard as part of the DSCC’S annual Majority Trust retreat.
OVERHEARD: Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, joking to the crowd: “If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know. If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.”
SEN. MARK WARNER (D-Va.) hosted a dinner Friday night for more than 100 guests at his house on Martha’s Vineyard as part of the DSCC’S annual Majority Trust retreat.
OVERHEARD: Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, joking to the crowd: “If you get me one more glass of wine, I’ll tell you stuff only Bob Mueller and I know. If you think you’ve seen wild stuff so far, buckle up. It’s going to be a wild couple of months.”
Today's Tweet
Irony. Subtlety. Comeuppance. Hypocrisy. Nothing sinks in - these people are impervious to everything that governs the normal functioning of a decent civil society. This is The Banality of Evil.
Go back and tell them you're seeking asylum there. By law they have to let you in, and only a depraved monster devoid of morals would defend turning you away. https://t.co/I7a8j0q8pv— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 23, 2018
Jun 23, 2018
The Cost Of The Benefit
Tim Wise at NCORE 2018:
Some notes and highlights:
When you raise the expectations of marginalized people, and you don't deliver, you can expect an explosion.
If you take people who have always had high expectations, and you don't deliver what they're absolutely sure they're entitled to - the explosion can look a lot like Cult45.
Wanna look at the rather frightening mortality trend among Non-College-Educated Working Class White People?
The 3 most often cited causes of 500,000 excess premature deaths in that cohort over a period of 14 years (1999-2013) were Opioids, Suicide, and Alcohol-Related Liver Disease.
We now have some new terminology - Deaths of Despair.
What's driving that trend is not the convenient and intellectually lazy concept of Economic Anxiety.
The hate mail - 😂
The pain is real, but we have to insist on a diagnosis that's not bullshit.
No Good Video
In the furor over Melania's jacket and the naked political opportunism of a White House desperate to stop stepping on its own dick with a track shoe, we lost sight of the fact that Melania was supposed to visit the McAllen Border Patrol Station too.
Instead, we got some nice "optics" from a place called Upbring (part of Lutheran Social Services Inc) - a "non-profit" facility aimed at care for child abuse survivors (now there's an interesting little Freudian twist).
Anyway:
I'm not beating up on the Lutherans, btw, although I'll say again that I purely hate the idea of handing any tax dollars to any religious organization for any reason, but that's another rant.
The point is that Melania didn't visit the McAllen Border Patrol Station, where we've cloistered some goodly number of kids in a makeshift prison camp. That part of the mission was scrubbed. Because - well, it kinda got to rainin'...
They already had their nice pictures of a place they told us held some immigrant kids. So they either had to bar cameras at the next stop because comparing the two joints would prob'ly make the second one look pretty fuckin' awful, or they could make up some shit to pretend they just couldn't get there, or whatever.
And about those pictures - I didn't see every single one of them, but I didn't see any kids either.
I guess I'm also wondering what might happen to the private donations that Upbring actively solicits, now that they've gotten million of dollars worth of free publicity.
It reminds me of the practice of the English sovereign granting special favors to a particular dressmaker or whiskey distiller. Merit-Based Free-Market Capitalism my dyin' ass.
Whoa Momma
"Crosses the line"?
"Over the top"?
"We have to be better than this"?
Absolutely. Great care must be taken. Because we need to work hard at not becoming what we're fighting.
Just be aware - Daddy State morgues get filled with the corpses of decent high-minded people who fight the wrong battle.
Today's How-To
A political ad from MJ Hegar, running for US Rep in TX-31:
This is how ya do it, guys. Distinguished Flying Cross - with Valor.
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