Strange phenomena surrounding the rock group Big Green.
Week that was (5.0).
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It has been another one of those weeks, packed to the gills with
news, mostly bad. Of course, this is not a bug but merely a feature of
the times we live in, so I will make my usual lame effort at grappling
with a small subset of what has been assailing us over the past few days
in the final full week of the third year of Our Lord Trump, king of the
chimps.
Debate #7. Not at all sure I see the point of these
corporate exercises in superficial political sparring. The CNN
questioners were clearly excited to dig in to their “breaking news”
story about what Bernie said to Elizabeth a couple of years ago in a
private conversation. The moderator who queried Sanders on this when
straight to Warren with a question that assumed he was lying in his
response. I am disappointed in Warren, frankly, for perpetuating this
line of attack. It plays on the odious claim the Sanders and his
followers were misogynistic in their race against Clinton in 2016 –
something Clinton alumni cling to as one of the rationales for their
loss. This is toxic, and I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to suggest that
it could ultimately blow the election. WTF, people … time to put the
movement above your personal fortunes. Knock. it. off.
Impeachment. A historic week in terms of the
delivery of articles of impeachment to the Senate for only the third
time in American history, with respect to presidents, at least. It seems
like a forgone conclusion that Trump will walk away from this, but not
unscathed – impeachment without removal is a kind of accountability. If
there is history after this presidency, this action will be indelibly
recorded next to his grisly name. As for the trial, well … I expect a
relative circus as compared to the already ridiculous Clinton
impeachment. The G.O.P. has decayed considerably over the past 20 years,
such that there’s some question as to whether all of them will keep
their pants on for the entire proceeding. We shall see.
War lies. Bernie had it right Tuesday night: our two
biggest foreign policy disasters in recent decades were spawned by lies
– Vietnam and Iraq. Though with Vietnam, I’m pretty sure he’s talking
about the Gulf of Tonkin incident that never happened, with the U.S.S.
Maddox and Turner Joy. (There were a lot of lies that preceded that with
regard to Indochina.) Of course Trump is lying about Iran … that’s the
same as saying he’s speaking about Iran. We are in a similar
boat with Iran as we were with Iraq back in 2001-03; elements within the
the administration want to have a war for whatever reason, perhaps
ideological, perhaps mercantile, likely some mixture of both. It appears
that the general population is more against the idea than it was in the
case of Iraq 2003, and that that opposition is broad-based enough to
make Trump somewhat cautious. Ironic that this heightened tension is
taking place in the immediate wake of the release of the Afghan papers,
the DOD internal history of the Iraq conflict, and the big Intercept / NY Times scoop on the activities of Iran’s intelligence services in Iraq. (Of course, these were all one or two-day stories at best.)
Natural Disasters. Heartbreaking climate-fueled
fires in Australia, earthquakes in Puerto Rico, volcanic eruptions in
the Philippines. Jesus H. Christ, what next?
Anybody seen my tuning fork? No, damn it, THAT'S not it. That's my tuning spoon. I said fork , you moron. This .... place ! Oh, yeah ... hi out there. I'm just attempting to replace a string on a second hand guitar that's been lying around the abandoned Cheney Hammer Mill since before we started squatting inside this big old drafty barn of a place. In as much as Big Green is a collectivist institution by nature, we make use of what resources avail themselves, utilizing only what we need to accomplish a mutually agreed-upon task, then replacing the surplus in such a way as to benefit all. Yes, we're all equal here. Except, of course, anti-Lincoln. Fuck that guy! Why am I restringing an old, abandoned guitar? Well, if it makes you feel any better, I'm doing it with used strings. We're scraping the bottom of the stewpot here, folks - I won't make any bones about it. (Typically, what you find at the bottom of the pot is not so much bones as sinew and fat...
What's that rattling you hear? Could be the sound of Tomahawk missiles. Or maybe it's just a loose screen in the upstairs window. Those may be the same exact thing, in effect. But there is a third possibility, and that is the April THIS IS BIG GREEN podcast. We've got another boatload of sound for you this month - here's a brief look inside the ship's hold (just to overextend that little metaphor) ... NED TREK 32: All Our Festeryears. A take-off on the "All Our Yesteryears" episode in the original Star Trek series (I believe their second or third to the last episode ever), Willard, Ned, Pearle, and Sulu pay a visit to a strangely deserted world, the entire population of which has retreated into old B movies on VHS tapes. The caretaker of the library (or Blockbuster Video) and his various doppelgangers are played by Ronald Reagan. Ned and Sulu have to deal with cheap-ass cinematic cowboys, whereas Willard and Pearle face-off against cave men. Kind of ...
News of the new Omicron COVID variant is settling in, and people are understandably wary and disgusted. Every time it seems like this thing is ending, this thing is not ending, and there are few things more frustrating than that. Life prior to the pandemic seems like this strange, distant, exotic state of being that can never be entirely restored. Of course, we really don’t know very much about Omicron. The networks are doing their best to pre-emptively scare the living shit out of everyone. I try to tune out all but the most authoritative voices; nevertheless, it eventually catches up with all of us in one way or another. The great, untried solution Now, we know how to get out of this. In case you haven’t heard, this is what needs to happen: rich people need to defeat their hunger for more riches. And if that doesn’t happen, we need to do the work for them. In other words, we need to separate Big Pharma from their excess profits and aggressively distribute the...
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