Ah Leah came on SeriusXM the other day -- 70s? Classic Vinyl? -- and I instantly became a fan. How did I not know of this? LOL
Now to find an album...
31 May 2017
Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Friday, April 21, 2017
Martin Sexton - Story of My Life
It seems this is a One Direction song. Very pretty here.
21 April 2017
5 May 2017 Addition: I think this may be the original version by Sexton.
And just to be complete, One Direction.
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21 April 2017
5 May 2017 Addition: I think this may be the original version by Sexton.
And just to be complete, One Direction.
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Monday, April 3, 2017
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Congress, Not Trump, Is the Danger
President Trump is an autocrat. He doesn't care a wit about democracy. He doesn't care a wit about America. This is a given. It also isn't really the story. Congress is the story.
It can act as the ultimate check on not just Trump, but any president. The founders saw the co-equal branches of government as the ultimate blocks on over-reaching for power. They new despots would rise, but figured the system would act as a block. Mostly, it has worked.
The problem today is that this is not how our government is aligning. It isn't the executive versus Congress. It is the party of the president in Congress aligning with the executive. And when that party hold the reigns of power in both as the GOP does today, the check on power the framers invented doesn't exist.
Thus, it is Congress that is the real danger to our way of life. The GOP politicians fear their base and primaries more than the general electorate. None care a wit about the country.
It is up to us to make sure that they pay for that in 2018. I just hope that we still have a country to save. That isn't just melodrama. I wish that it was.
If you read only one thing today, make it this article by Ezra Klein on vox.com, How to Stop an Autocracy (The danger isn't that Trump will build an autocracy. It's that congressional Republicans will let him.)
And then roll up your sleeves and work even harder. Your country needs you.
7 February 2017
It can act as the ultimate check on not just Trump, but any president. The founders saw the co-equal branches of government as the ultimate blocks on over-reaching for power. They new despots would rise, but figured the system would act as a block. Mostly, it has worked.
The problem today is that this is not how our government is aligning. It isn't the executive versus Congress. It is the party of the president in Congress aligning with the executive. And when that party hold the reigns of power in both as the GOP does today, the check on power the framers invented doesn't exist.
Thus, it is Congress that is the real danger to our way of life. The GOP politicians fear their base and primaries more than the general electorate. None care a wit about the country.
It is up to us to make sure that they pay for that in 2018. I just hope that we still have a country to save. That isn't just melodrama. I wish that it was.
If you read only one thing today, make it this article by Ezra Klein on vox.com, How to Stop an Autocracy (The danger isn't that Trump will build an autocracy. It's that congressional Republicans will let him.)
And then roll up your sleeves and work even harder. Your country needs you.
7 February 2017
Friday, December 16, 2016
FBI: Nefarious or Simply Negligent?
Josh Marshall at TPM has his take on John Podesta's take-down of the FBI in relation to the Russian hacking of the DNC and by extention the Clinton campaign. I think that he has the right of it. Basically, a good analogy of how the FBI acted is as follows:
Suppose that your neighbor sees that your house is on fire, but instead of calling the fire department, she calls a driver for the department of sanitation. She tells the driver that she sees some serious smoke, but that's it. Sure, the driver might stop what he's doing and call the fire department. Or he might think the lady is crazy and go eat lunch. Either way, your house has burned down. And when you find out that your neighbor called the sanitation department, you are rightly pissed!
Was the FBI nefarious in its actions. I think probably so. As Marshall points out, the head of the DNC at the time was a member of Congress, so they knew where to find who was in charge... but they didn't. At the very least, it was negligent beyond words.
And now we have a #childPEOTUS.
16 December 2016
Suppose that your neighbor sees that your house is on fire, but instead of calling the fire department, she calls a driver for the department of sanitation. She tells the driver that she sees some serious smoke, but that's it. Sure, the driver might stop what he's doing and call the fire department. Or he might think the lady is crazy and go eat lunch. Either way, your house has burned down. And when you find out that your neighbor called the sanitation department, you are rightly pissed!
Was the FBI nefarious in its actions. I think probably so. As Marshall points out, the head of the DNC at the time was a member of Congress, so they knew where to find who was in charge... but they didn't. At the very least, it was negligent beyond words.
And now we have a #childPEOTUS.
16 December 2016
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Donald Trump Is Gaslighting America
An editorial was published by Teen Vogue yesterday with this title. Its author Lauren Duca did herself proud. It is better than anything I've read in either the Wall Street Journal or the New York Times in the past year. I probably shouldn't be surprised both because of the sorry state of our "hard" news reporting in this country and the fact that other "fluff" outlets like People Magazine have been doing a better job of fact-checking than have traditional news outlets of late.
You should read it. And one of its internal links features this writing on how to spot false and misleading information. Seriously, Teen freaking Vogue is doing a better job at educating readers than the NY f'ing Times.
What a sad world.
11 December 2016
You should read it. And one of its internal links features this writing on how to spot false and misleading information. Seriously, Teen freaking Vogue is doing a better job at educating readers than the NY f'ing Times.
What a sad world.
11 December 2016
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