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  1. jbg

    Death and Comedy, or On Comedy, That’s the Funny Thing About Grief

    The New York Times print edition, today, had an article, On Comedy, That’s the Funny Thing About Grief -A new generation of stand-ups is mining the heartbreaking loss of a loved one for ambitious shows. How did we get here? (link). Here are some excerpts: My only disagreement with the article...
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    Needless Disrespect for a President - Biden, Trump or otherwise

    What a way to conduct a debate! Calling someone "cheetoh" or "puddle-brain"? Politics should be above the level of recess in Fourth Grade.
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    Needless Disrespect for a President - Biden, Trump or otherwise

    And one of the reasons why we domesticated wolves into dogs.
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    Kent State, Ohio, 52 Years Ago today

    It sounds to me like the "demonstrators" were creating a dangerous situation that no one was really equipped or trained to handle. Maybe I'm stupid but they call that a strike? I call it a riot. A strike is the organized withholding of labor from an employer as a negotiating tool. And how does...
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    What book r u reading?

    Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer, excerpt: Try as one might, one cannot humanize Hitler. Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer attempts mightily to do so. He wrote the book after serving a 20 year term in Spandau Prison. He was perhaps able to justify himself well enough not to ingest...
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    EV Movement, Plastic Bag Bans, etc. - Is Motive Really Environment or Control? (solar, recycling)

    No one asks questions that get in the way of feeling virtuous.
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    Re-examining Gordon Lightfoot's Canadian Railroad Trilogy

    Why is "reconciliation" often so divisive? Pierre Trudeau's bilingualism and multiculturalism have not worked well.
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    Metropolitan Museum of Art Sets Course to Self-Destruction, Set to "Return" Art Objects

    I consider myself lucky to have been born in 1957. I believe I was first taken to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the "Met") when I was eleven or twelve years old, in the late 1960's. The works of art, from ancient Greece, Egypt and Africa were awe-inspiring. Now, the powers that be plan to...
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    Kent State, Ohio, 52 Years Ago today

    I'm sure you have something in mind. Not sure what.
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    EV Movement, Plastic Bag Bans, etc. - Is Motive Really Environment or Control? (solar, recycling)

    A couple of dead pedestrians would beg to differ.
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    EV Movement, Plastic Bag Bans, etc. - Is Motive Really Environment or Control? (solar, recycling)

    Do you really think by tying a tourniquette around the economy we are going to prevent one heat wave, drought, flood, or the common cold? This is the logic of a Fourth Grade civics project, collect a few bottles and cans and make the world a better place. Nice symbolism with lots of suffering.
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    Re-examining Gordon Lightfoot's Canadian Railroad Trilogy

    I was going to put this in "Canada" but thought better of it since I am not familiar with that sub-form's rules I was set to watch what I thought would be an interesting take on one of my favorite songs, Gordon Lightfoot’s Canadian Railroad Trilogy. This video hh7xNDcA6f4 (link), from someone...
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    Kent State, Ohio, 52 Years Ago today

    Fifty-two years ago today was The May 4 Shootings at Kent State University. I remember it so well it's almost too recent to be history. From about 1964 on, starting with the "Free Speech" movement in California and escalating to a crescendo six years later, the campuses and inner cities were...
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    EV Movement, Plastic Bag Bans, etc. - Is Motive Really Environment or Control? (solar, recycling)

    To what end? To impoverish ourselves?
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    EV Movement, Plastic Bag Bans, etc. - Is Motive Really Environment or Control? (solar, recycling)

    Here are excerpts from the ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, on April 17, 2023 holding these kind of restrictions invalid as preempted by Federal legislation: Even on the merits, does anyone seriously think that strangling ourselves economically is going to do anything more than...
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    EV Movement, Plastic Bag Bans, etc. - Is Motive Really Environment or Control? (solar, recycling)

    Update in today's paper: New York on cusp of being first state in nation to ban natural gas under new budget — and residents are furious, (link), excerpts below: I know some will be quick to deride the source of the story, but either it's true or not. And the Governor and the two legislative...
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    Songs That Haunt and Bring Strong Memories - e.g. Circle Game: Joni Mitchell's Response to Neil Young

    Another one, an obscure track on Don McLean's anything but obscure American Pie album.
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    Songs That Haunt and Bring Strong Memories - e.g. Circle Game: Joni Mitchell's Response to Neil Young

    Maybe better dreams...
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    Songs That Haunt and Bring Strong Memories - e.g. Circle Game: Joni Mitchell's Response to Neil Young

    Maybe off topic but maybe not. I just watched the achingly beautiful Youtube video Circle Game: Joni Mitchell's Response to Neil Young. Spoiler alert,the song tracks Neil Young's song about coming of age, Sugar Mountain, and Joni Mitchel's response, The . This brings back memories of the summer...
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    Bar Mitzvahs Requiring Second Mortgages and other blowouts

    The bolded is really really rude. Also a lot of gifts are impractical and unused. OTOH I have on my shelf a record album, Anticipation by Carly Simon and another one Concert for BanglaDesh, both of which I got in holiday season 1971. I still listen to both. We gave our older son a bicycle after...
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