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Agent Smith in "The Matrix" spoke to this. The first few worlds which the machines created were utopias. They failed miserably. Whole "crops" of humans were lost. Then the machines realized that human beings NEED chaos. Without it, they wither and die. God, we're such a fucked species.

Taking rights away has been a 60 year project of the far right. Their voters always show up.

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Finally found some of this. It is fucking great, if you like that kind of thing.

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OK, back to puttering.

Welcome back, hombre.

New music. F*ck Donald Trump.

*shudder*

I've been a baldo so long that I can't even imagine having hair, nor wanting it. Being bald is so much easier.

I did that once.

Once.

OK. I didn't know this. John Boorman's daughter played Igrayne in "Excalibur". You know, Arthur's mother. You know, involved in a rather graphic sex scene with Uther. Man. I just couldn't.

Exactly. Rights don't exist, or, rather, aren't maintained, unless you take action and vote for people who will respect those rights. Right's aren't a "thing". They're concepts that have to be agreed to. And if you have a swathe which doesn't observe them, they're dead letters.

Mmhmm. You have the rights for which you vote. Otherwise they don't exist.

I love all the Blade movies.

a cartoon character in a suit and tie is pointing at the camera and saying cheese . ALT: a cartoon character in a suit and tie is pointing at the camera and saying cheese .

I like cheese as much as this guy.

Her dad was a Reagan supporter. And Charlton Heston did in fact march with King. How'd he turn out? Past is not prologue.

Opinion | Sing a Eurosong of Antisemitism Now Israel’s critics want to ban the country from a pop music competition.

Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia are so antisemitic, they want to isolate Israel from world music.

Isolating Jews from society is what Nazis did.

This Nazism comes from Russia, Iran, and Islamists, with the help of the Far Left.

Devil’s brew creates hell.

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How do we do that? Magic? The authoritarian left and right promote this chimera of a system that will run itself and supersede democracy. Nothing can replace the constant engagement of voters showing up to the polls without fail, choosing harm reduction and the common good election after election.

LOL. Rights are ALWAYS conditional. None of them are absolute and inalienable. They depend on actions and decisions taken by the electorate. The Soviet constitution was a model of freedom and liberty. In theory, the republics had the right to secede. How'd that work out?

The Eternal Question.

YouTube video by KEXP Digable Planets - Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) (Live on KEXP)

Why yes, this is Digable Planets. Why yes, the men in the group have grey beards. Why yes, I'm holding myself and rocking myself and weeping.

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Weekend self-care open thread: Some of my favorite movie themes Our greatest living film composer Richard Wagner had the idea of the Gesantkunstwerk , or "total work of art", where all the elements of a p...

Happy weekend, friends. This weekend's self-care at the Bar.

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I'm sorry, one last expulsion of anger. Oh, Tracy. You were called these things because you are.

OK you fountains of Wayne, I think I've expelled all my anger, and am now myself again. Or, at least, my non-angry self. I contain multitudes. Y'all be good. Peace.

I don't find this funny

It's like the dreams I still have that I'm in school, it's the final, and I've skipped all the classes and done none of the reading.

YouTube video by Tommy Boy Planet Patrol - Play At Your Own Risk (12"" Version)

And now I'm 14 and back in Washington Heights at a basement party.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AgG...

Yep, we have our clerks do the closing announcements. In English and Spanish. Most of us at work are Latin.

Look. I never found them funny when Gen X ran it. I find it puerile now.

I had a blessedly uneventful day at work after a week of problem patrons.