Category: blues

Lobotomy Blues: Dorothy Parker…

the lobotomy had not only fallen out of favor by the 1950s but was being excoriated as a barbaric practice. The Soviet Union banned the surgery in 1950, arguing that it was “contrary to the principles of humanity.”

Elect Dr. Jill Stein President November 2024

We need real change in American Leadership. Dr. Jill Stein has a vetted plan for shutting down 56 war and implementing peace!

A half century of Thermobaric weapons:

… Early versions of fuel-air bombs and shoulder-launched thermobaric missiles have been in use since the 1970s. This included the propane-based fuel-air bomb known as the CBU-55, used by the U.S. in Vietnam

Joy Blues

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it.”

Minimum Living Wage…

Starvation wages have nothing to do with “new-workers.” They are about starving the poor to provide corporate welfare.

Highway 61

Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night
Told the first father that things weren’t right
My complexion she said is much too white
He said come here and step into the light, he says hmm you’re right
Let me tell the second mother this has been done
But the second mother was with the seventh son
And they were both out on Highway 61

President Jill Stein

Another good reason to vote for Jill Stein:

I received this letter from Dr. Jill Ellen Stein today.  She is spot on. And we can win this in November!

The Green Party can Win !

Genocide in Gaza

ADL: What does this even mean?

“Moderately thinking” it is OK to fund crimes perpetrated by an antisemitic lunatic in Israel are a huge part of the problems we face today.”

If not now… then when?

“Moderates” who condone genocidal attacks on captive Palestinian people in a virtual prison are part of the problem. “Moderately thinking” … More

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali moved me to tears of sorrow and joy.  Back in the sixties, Ali made me feel  like someone … More

Stardust

https://youtu.be/_T6WKdrxzyY?t=9 Willie Nelson / Stardust                               … More

America is bankrupt: broker by the day.

America’s empire is bankrupt. (Nearly 32 trillion in debt) “The reach of America’s military empire includes close to 800 bases … More

Eugene the Jeep

https://youtu.be/l0asgF3RtZw 1960-10-06: Ike & Popeye’s Magical Jeep In the August 9, 1936, strip, headlined “Wha’s a Jeep?” [sic] Popeye asks … More

Chocolate…

Eating one piece of chocolate at a time… https://youtu.be/mb1uesaHOzA?list=RDmb1uesaHOzA Howlin’ Wolf – Chocolate Drop may not be about strength or … More

Hold on, we are stardust…

You may be approaching middle age… “Humans could live until the ripe old age of 150 years” How long can … More

Cats

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.”
~Terry Pratchett

Killing children to placate angry illegal Israeli “settlers” is obscene, perverse and insane…

Over 13,000 infants and children killed in Israel’s Gaza genocide

Interdimensional linguistics matter,

Interdimensional linguistics … matter, unconditionally… We can be civil, creative, literate and articulate…with adequate vocabulary and deliberate intent…. https://youtu.be/5m2HN2y0yV8?list=RDMM John … More

Invisible Data

Tedium

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.” ― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959 Real life may be … More

Alternatives to Anthropomorphism…

https://youtu.be/X3KnCL0S_Ws?list=RDX3KnCL0S_Ws Tom Waits – “Lie To Me“ There are alternatives to anthropomorphism… What is the anthropomorphic fallacy?   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ The … More