November 20, 2010 archive

Original v. Cover — #52 in a Series

Mail Boxes Pictures, Images and Photos

A series of winter holidays is rapidly approaching, possibly intended to divert our attention away from the long, cold, dark nights have already begun, with a vengeance in some areas of the country. Some have already sent their letters to Santa, including their wish list, and for those whose wants are many, some have likely discovered that the postage is cheaper if the list is included on a recordable DVD.  The title of this week’s song may serve as a reminder for some of us who haven’t finalized our wish lists yet.  If that hoped-for gift doesn’t arrive in late December, the similar wish could be made for Valentine’s Day.  

Unless you were around in 1950, you may not remember when this week’s feature song was released.  Even if you were, depending upon your musical tastes, you still may not have heard it.  This was a time when songs could reach #1 on the R&B charts, as did this song, and yet be completely absent from the pop charts.  This frequently covered blues ballad was considered one of the most influential of its time.  Quite possibly rare for its time, the lyrics combined an awareness of world conflict, with a plaintive expression of the need for love.    

Read Howard Zinn

So, this is probably my last diary here.  Nothing too much to say…So long, and thanks for all the tips?

Anyway, a lot of people are lost politically in these parts.  I have one piece of advice, one thing that gives me hope even in these dark days, one thing that keeps me going perhaps more than anything else:  Howard Zinn’s wisdom.  Please, please, please do yourself a favor and read Howard Zinn extensively if you haven’t already.  The keys, I believe, to what politics is really all about (HINT: it’s not elections) are in his writings.

So…enjoy…you can start with these if you want to…

http://progressive.org/mag_zin…

http://www.historyisaweapon.co…

(IF YOU READ A SINGLE NONFICTION TEXT IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, READ A PEOPLE’S HISTORY!!!!)

http://www.progressive.org/mar…

Popular Culture 20101119: The Name Game UPDATED with link to Coulter Video

I have been threatening to write this for some time and finally got around to it.  The hard core conservative pundits have no compunction about calling their political opponents different names (“Rahm, Rahmbo, Dead Fish”, for example) and sometime the progressive pundits do the same.

However, the more progressive pundits have better manners than the conservative ones.  Since I have no manners at all, I have no compunction for making up names.  Ed Schultz does quite a few, like Slant Head and The Drugster, but I find them sort of weak.  Olbermann did better with Lonesome Rhodes, but that still does not have as much punch as I would like.

To make this more fun, I shall list some names and give sort of riddle as a hint, and then ask readers to guess the identity of the person in a comment.  If you have better ones, or if I leave out a favorite target of yours, please comment as well.

1st Annual DD Going Out of Business Rummage Sale

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Come one come all!

Everything’s free! or trade. or socialist community grab.

Bring all your shit! Purge your buckets and bookmarks! lol.

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First things first:  We’re gonna burn this Diary!! I mean ESSAY! Ive pre-set the self-destruct for an unrevealed time, so fire away until then. But only after the jump there. Please and thank you.

Psssst. It’s also a thinly disguised ruse for a trip down memory lane and some possible roasting er rule breaking I mean tributes below the crease. shhhhh.

(Well,  I mean, since The Boss has already promised to pre-emptively banished* me… so what the hell. lol) *that would be a posthumous ban…. in the future… making the “blogging the future” site tagline all the more verifiable, you see.

Who’s got ponies?!?!!

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There shall be music. And dancing.

Rejoice, rejoice, let the morphing begin.

Celebrate!

Take the leap.

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1st Annual DD Going Out of Business Rummage Sale

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Come one come all!

Everything’s free! or trade. or socialist community grab.

Bring all your shit! Purge your buckets and bookmarks! lol.

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First things first:  We’re gonna burn this Diary!! I mean ESSAY! Ive pre-set the self-destruct for an unrevealed time, so fire away until then. But only after the jump there. Please and thank you.

Psssst. It’s also a thinly disguised ruse for a trip down memory lane and some possible roasting er rule breaking I mean tributes below the crease. shhhhh.

(Well,  I mean, since The Boss has already promised to pre-emptively banished* me… so what the hell. lol) *that would be a posthumous ban…. in the future… making the “blogging the future” site tagline all the more verifiable, you see.

Who’s got ponies?!?!!

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There shall be music. And dancing.

Rejoice, rejoice, let the morphing begin.

Celebrate!

Take the leap.

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How do i delete an essay?

Oops..  That’s what I get for posting without reading first.  My apologies to gjohnsit.  How do I delete an essay?

It was an idea that started in France when it became clear that simple protest was not going to change government financial policies.  It’s now spreading around Europe like wildfire, and appears to be beginning to jump the puddle to this side of the Atlantique:

Banque Stop!

http://dailybail.com/home/eric…

You should be aware that there is a French-based European movement that is gaining considerable strength that calls for massive, coordinated bank withdrawals across the continent on December 7.  It’s an attempt at a modern, crowd-sourced bank run.

Here’s the US Facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/event….

Pass it along.

Remembering Our Dead

The people listed inside have three things in common…and maybe more.  First of all, they are all dead and have died since last November 20.  Secondly, they are all transwomen.  Thirdly, they died as a result of nothing more than intense hatred.  One only needs to survey the causes of death to verify that.  In many cases, the rage that the murderer must have had is evident in the number of stab wounds, the dismemberment or other mutilation evident on the bodies, or the execution that clearly had taken place (please note how many had been shot in the head).

I provide this list, cribbed from this site, not to be a downer…though it sure brings me down…but to honor their lives and the courage it took to live them.

Tomorrow is Transgender Day of Remembrance.  We will not forget.

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