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by John A Arkansawyer
Sat Jul 30, 2022 4:28 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

If there truly is no room for movement anywhere for any reason we all just ought to pack up and go to the beach, or maybe to the rooftops to wait for some cataclysm a la Independence Day, There's nothing wrong in playing for time and waiting for the national fever to break. But if it's rooftops you...
by John A Arkansawyer
Sat Jul 30, 2022 9:47 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

Zip City wrote:
Sat Jul 30, 2022 9:26 am
The veterans will continue to vote R regardless of this shit show
This is the sort of thing that lightly erodes the Republican vote. They don't switch; they do fail to show up. Half a loaf is better than a poke in the eye.
by John A Arkansawyer
Sat Jul 30, 2022 9:22 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

The Republicans threw a hissy and voted against a bill their base supports. I believe you'll see them look for a face-saving way to reverse that vote and I'm hoping the Democrats deny it to them. I forgot possibly the best part--the vote was 55-42. It failed because of the filibuster. One more argu...
by John A Arkansawyer
Sat Jul 30, 2022 8:18 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

As usual I am confused. Why would the Senate vote down the bill to aid veterans that they already approved? I know what they're saying, but does that make any sense? It doesn't sound like Mitch McConnell to me and it sounds like a serious error in judgment. Essentially they're refusing to provide b...
by John A Arkansawyer
Fri Jul 29, 2022 1:56 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

As usual I am confused. Why would the Senate vote down the bill to aid veterans that they already approved? I know what they're saying, but does that make any sense? It doesn't sound like Mitch McConnell to me and it sounds like a serious error in judgment. Essentially they're refusing to provide b...
by John A Arkansawyer
Tue Jul 26, 2022 4:53 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

An urgently written appeal: The Filibuster Is a Direct Threat to American Democracy It's not just about helping Democrats or making particular legislation possible. The filibuster actually endangers the whole edifice of civic democracy in America. The context for this is the drive to get Democrats c...
by John A Arkansawyer
Fri Jul 22, 2022 8:23 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

If you've got suggestions to improve either thought or, better yet, a better idea, please don't hesitate to share with the class. I wish I did, but I don't. I still don't, really, except that this struck me as the sort of conversation starter you were talking about: What to Do About the Court A Pro...
by John A Arkansawyer
Fri Jul 22, 2022 7:43 pm
Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
Topic: Denver - Levitt Pavilion - 7/15/22
Replies: 4
Views: 976

Re: Denver - Levitt Pavilion - 7/15/22

beantownbubba wrote:
Fri Jul 22, 2022 6:57 pm
I've only seen the set lists on 3dd which I know is far less than from all the current/recent shows, but the slightly shorter set lists seem to be a thing by now, is that right?
I think it's got to do with how many outdoor shows they're playing in the hot sun right now.
by John A Arkansawyer
Sat Jul 16, 2022 6:51 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Only in Philadelphia
Replies: 460
Views: 310654

Re: Only in Philadelphia

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by John A Arkansawyer
Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:46 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

If you've got suggestions to improve either thought or, better yet, a better idea, please don't hesitate to share with the class. I wish I did, but I don't. The closest thing I have to a big thought lately is "rule of law" as good government and good politics. I've looked at enough judges in my lif...
by John A Arkansawyer
Tue Jul 12, 2022 11:10 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

When one party is the "rules for thee, not for me" party, I don't know how you move forward with the "right" rules By defeating the other party, obviously, which is a mostly separate question. Speaking of defeating the other party, here's one way: Michigan’s Already Got Roe on the Ballot For months...
by John A Arkansawyer
Mon Jul 11, 2022 10:40 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

When one party is the "rules for thee, not for me" party, I don't know how you move forward with the "right" rules By defeating the other party, obviously, which is a mostly separate question. The value of having consistent principles to rally our side around is the reason I posted a cogent, unders...
by John A Arkansawyer
Mon Jul 11, 2022 9:14 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

I always like Doug Muder's stuff, and this one is solid:

Freedom isn’t maximized by having no rules; it’s maximized by having the right rules.

It does beg the question of who decides what the right rules are, but that's okay; we have to settle the metaquestion of "rules or not" first.
by John A Arkansawyer
Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:28 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

Food for thought from a favorite democrat and a new-to-me socialist: Altercation: The ‘Dobbs’ Backlash and the Democrats’ Choice Republicans on the Supreme Court overturned the will of the majority; do liberals have the leadership to fight back? Since the early ’60s, liberals relied on what Samuel M...
by John A Arkansawyer
Mon Jun 27, 2022 7:34 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

A possible speck of good news, if you can bear it: The January 6 hearings are accomplishing more than you think You may not see it, if you don’t understand how conservatives change their minds. MAGAworld refusing to engage is a good sign. This is exactly what you should have expected to see if thing...
by John A Arkansawyer
Mon Jun 27, 2022 3:56 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

beantownbubba wrote:
Mon Jun 27, 2022 3:50 pm
Can someone please explain to me why some Christians find it necessary, desirable and/or appropriate to pray in locker rooms and on football fields?
Because there's no such thing as bad publicity?
by John A Arkansawyer
Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:45 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

Lou Reed wrote:The best lack all convictions
And the worst are filled with a passionate intensity
Now you figure out where I am
by John A Arkansawyer
Sun Jun 26, 2022 9:20 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

I've never seen or heard an originalist counter to what seems to me to be a very obvious and compelling argument, but maybe I should just get over it. I wouldn't go that far. I would say that trying to solve a political problem by judicial means has its limits, as we are being cruelly taught right ...
by John A Arkansawyer
Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:52 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

...but I can play one on TV. The family values voter has to overlook Trump's 3 marriages at least 2 of which played out mostly in the newspapers as well as his serial admitted adultery. You mean, like Ronald Reagan? The Christians have to overlook Trump's lack of charity, his looting of his own char...
by John A Arkansawyer
Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:37 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

In the film adaptation of the Cold War epic Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John le Carré’s fictional British intelligence officer George Smiley describes his opposite number, the Soviet spymaster Karla. Smiley knows Karla can be beaten, he says, because Karla “is a fanatic. And the fanatic is always co...
by John A Arkansawyer
Tue Jun 21, 2022 9:01 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

If one grew up in NY like I did, or lived there in the 70's and 80's like I did for part of that time, you knew of Donald Trump and you understood him to be a clown and not just a mere clown but a sleazy particularly ugly form of clown. He was the butt of all kinds of jokes and nobody took him seri...
by John A Arkansawyer
Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:48 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

This once again/still raises the age old (well, at least since 2016) question "what do his supporters see in Trump and why do they follow him?" It remains a complete mystery to me to the extent that it's almost a rhetorical question at this point (though I'd really like to know the answer). "He own...
by John A Arkansawyer
Fri Jun 17, 2022 10:15 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

BTW, the arc of history line is MLK's. Obama used to (and probably still does) quote it often. Au contraire, mon frère! One Rev. Theodore Parker said it first, though a bit more wordily: I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cann...
by John A Arkansawyer
Thu Jun 16, 2022 5:16 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

I think it sums up a number of comments over the past couple of days to say that we have sunk so low, that simply doing the obvious right thing, simply doing one’ s job is now the exceptional “profile in courage” level in politics/public life. As it happens we are actually lucky that people like pe...
by John A Arkansawyer
Fri Jun 10, 2022 8:08 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

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beantownbubba wrote:
Thu Jun 09, 2022 10:44 pm
So, how widely watched was the Jan 6th hearing around these parts and how widely watched do we think it was nationally?
I'm not the audience, so I didn't watch. I'm curious what the ratings numbers show.
by John A Arkansawyer
Mon May 30, 2022 1:29 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Gone but not forgotten....
Replies: 141
Views: 88044

Re: Gone but not forgotten....

chuckrh wrote:
Sun May 29, 2022 5:41 pm
RIP Ronnie Hawkins, Canadian music icon. He put together The Band to back him up & had a memorable performance in The Last Waltz.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/r ... -1.6470162
He told me a lot of stories when I interviewed him. Some of them were even true! ;-)
by John A Arkansawyer
Tue May 17, 2022 6:50 pm
Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
Topic: Welcome to Club XIII
Replies: 338
Views: 241277

Re: Welcome to Club XIII

Flea wrote:
Tue May 17, 2022 6:40 pm
Who is the female on backing vocals?
That's Schaefer Llana, who sang with Jerry Joseph at Homecoming 2020.
by John A Arkansawyer
Tue May 17, 2022 12:29 pm
Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
Topic: Welcome to Club XIII
Replies: 338
Views: 241277

Re: Welcome to Club XIII

There's a video:

by John A Arkansawyer
Wed May 04, 2022 1:06 pm
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit
Replies: 20778
Views: 4829243

Re: The Neverending Thread for Political Shit

You folks are looking for consistency in all the wrong places. You're likelier to find love there than truth. Look instead for consistency in this question:
What will increase the power of the far right?
That is the principle about which you will find consistency.
by John A Arkansawyer
Wed May 04, 2022 1:01 pm
Forum: Drive-By Truckers discussion
Topic: Every Single Storied Flameout-New Cooley Song
Replies: 38
Views: 7773

Re: Every Single Storied Flameout-New Cooley Song

That part of you that feels alive is wired and can’t be severed from the damage seeking part of you that runs it Just don’t embrace it with a vengeance before you’ve even shaved with a razor that you bought with your own money ... Cooley's vocal in this is also astonishing. Positively Costello-esqu...