Fear Makes It Harder, but Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World!
A story: Neil Young and Crazy Horse were coming to town in three months. My ex-wife planned and schemed to get me tickets to see them at the Boston Garden in 1986 as a Father’s Day gift. She went to the box office there when the tickets first became available on a Sunday morning at […]
Appendix II: Politics in the Anthropocene
Pima Precinct Pathway Guide This appendix presents a way to get to a detailed map of specific precincts in Pima County AZ. This could be useful to an on-the-ground team that wants to become familiar with a particular precinct by visiting library branches, coffee bars and cafes, juke joints, houses of worship, etc. Using this […]
Appendix I: Politics in the Anthropocene
AZ-6 Precincts in Pima County First pass at analyzing with Particular Attention to Ones Where Fewer than 50% of the Eligible Voters Participated Precinct Number Turnout Ciscomani Votes Engel Votes Registered & didn’t vote (approx.) Yes on Prop 309 No on Prop 309 Comments 114 20% 154 125 1,350 143 129 Looks like the worst […]
A Great Place to Be From
I grew up in Louisville Kentucky in the 1950s and 60s. It was a strong and highly segregated culture. (Jefferson Davis was married there.) It was awash with musical crosscurrents. Harvey Fuqua, who founded The Moonglows was from there. PeeWee King, co-writer and performer of The Tennessee Waltz lived about a mile away from me. […]
Get Real. Be Rational.
The people who recognize this t-shirt will say that it’s mathematical But it’s really ideological Competing Ideologies contend that their opponents Have no idea how the world works They’re either irrational or unrealistic All ideologies make sense To the people who adhere to them Back to My T-Shirts Are Me!
Who Cares What It Means?!
Who here doesn’t love “A Whiter Shade of Pale?!” Who here can tell me what it means?! Like “Louie Louie,” it has been a song near and dear to the hearts of millions. Play it in a bar and everyone comes in with gusto on the very few lines or words that they know and […]
Learning, Localism and Love in the Anthropocene
Localism versus Globalism in the Anthropocene I spend time in Collier County, Florida. Collier County is Deep Red. Collier is home to the 17th richest zip code in the United States. It went 2:1 for Trump in 2016 and 2020. Approximately 35% of the residents are either people of color or members of the LGBTQ+ […]
I am ever thankful to the men and women who saved our republic on January 6th
Officers Gonell, Dunn, Fanone and Hodges and hundreds of other risked their lives for all of us. When I see Rabid Rightists claiming that Blue Lives Matter! my response is Right On!, especially men and women like these. Here is their full testimony. If you’ve never seen it you owe it to yourself to do […]
“No Good Deed Goes Unpunished” — Oscar Wilde
‘Two world-renowned virologists appeared on Capitol Hill on Tuesday and delivered a pointed defense of their findings that the coronavirus pandemic was natural in origin, and told skeptical Republicans that Dr. Anthony S. Fauci did not exert influence over a scientific paper they wrote to that effect. ‘The paper is at the heart of Republicans’ […]
“Art is what you can get away with.”
By focusing a concentrated attention on everyday items, Warhol demonstrated that anything and everything can be and could be art. This explains why a banana stuck to a canvas sold for over $100,000! As Cole Porter said, “Anything Goes!” I’m sure that he and Andy would have been fast friends (and probably rivals) if they […]