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Not a big Monkeys fan, but always liked the ironic surrealism of Pleasant Valley Sunday. Carole King and her songwriting partner wrote that.
Neil Diamond wrote 4 songs for The Monkeys, including "I'm a Believer".
And Jon Stewart's "Daydream Belie…
No surprise from the Orange Disaster.
Further up in the thread:
"...with little hope of recouping their investments in the near term."
Well, ya. I'd see the whole A.I. thing as a VERY long-term enterprise, and it will evolve in size and capabili…
"...Long before the U.S. shale boom, when global production of light sweet crude oil was declining, we [American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers] made significant investments in our refineries to process heavier, high-sulfur crude oils that w…
Not a word from the Orange Criminal can be trusted, period. Yes, his cronies surrounding him are surely leading the charge to dismantle our democracy: he doesn't know enough about how to even begin. To say nothing of his ongoing mental decline. He w…
@larryB: Shelby Foote reminded viewers (K. Burns' The Civil War) that our system is based on compromise. Often, and from the beginning, it's distasteful compromises--- like allowing slavery to continue. What happened in the pre-1861 years leading u…
"...Just one opinion."
Not hardly. My take: EAT the Rich. In so many ways, in so many directions, what the wealthiest are doing and lobbying for is an entire separate space, their own private society, apart from the rest of us. No need to pay taxes…
...I don't comprehend the "replacement percentage" stuff. And people should not have to work until 69, that's fecal in a rat-fart sort of way. I seem to recall it was Ray-guns who decided to keep the distinct ledger for SS, but to mix the existing b…
I'll read it later, I promise. I got an answer already: remove the salary cap. And make the contributions from both employers and employees a truly PROGRESSIVE, sliding scale, by income. I like to wear the T-shirt I bought from the Bernie store: TAX…
@BaluBalu. With all due respect,,,, both partyism is a total crock of shit. The most mediocre, uninspiring and incompetent Democrat is miles ahead of what the republicans have unleashed on this country and more broadly ,, the entire world. It’s an …
I'm sure the 'next' has been a thought, over time, among many here. We've talked about this during the marches/protests last year; regarding some of the 'locals', at that time. Obviously, the escalation is at another level now. Whatever actions are …
Written by Peter Cetera. I remember him! Lots of stuff in the '80s. Duets with the ladies: Cher, Amy Grant. (So gorgeous, A.G. I wanted to have her children. I first was introduced to her through her contemporary religious music.)
I was 15 in '69. But I did get to the Watkins Glen thing. The Band, Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers. 28 July, '73. Nineteenth birthday. Took the parents' station wagon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Jam_at_Watkins_Glen
+1.
A.I.: "War Pigs" is an anti-war protest song by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, serving as the opening track on their second studio album, Paranoid, released in 1970.
The song was inspired by the Vietnam War, which was ongoing at the …
I think that pic of the Orange Menace is actually his MUG-SHOT (?) Edited, to leave out the reference to Georgia Law Enforcement. Criminal Felon slime. My friend lately was sworn in as a citizen of the USA. At the Federal Building, it looked like th…
Maybe trump thinks he gets the Iranian oil fields, once he "takes control" and dictates terms.
@Crash Excellent poem. I always appreciate the work of "e". One might say that this work has direct bearing on Ukraine today, as trump "twitches a libe…
CNBC headline: "Trump... tells (Iranian) protesters help is on the way."
Text of the e e cummings poem: "Thanksgiving (1956)":
(remembering the Hungarian uprising.)
a monstering horror swallows
this unworld me by you
as the god of our fathers’ fa…
From my school d-a-z-e.
Lord Byron. The Prisoner of Chillon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillon_Castle
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43842/the-prisoner-of-chillon
Ya, saw that. News to me, most of it. Those pathetic wankers are schoolyard weakling bullies who want to feel important. Just give 'em a badge and a mask. And a gun. Motherlovers.
Comments: I'm amazed that certain people of Jewish descent unquestionably endorse Trump's actions.
Segments of Trump's support base (potentially large?) loathe all Jews based strictly on ethnicity.
I guess this unusual phenomenon only occurs when th…
