Michael E Crowley

There needs to be an organization and alternative economic model for people who are recovering from a career in predatory capitalism.

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"I have no quarrel with history, although I am often appalled by the people who make it." - Guy Williams, Disney's "Zorro."

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Give it up for the Spaceman.

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So three great writers, then.

'Never felt more betrayed': MAGA rebels over Trump's 'treasonous' Qatar base in Idaho After years of advocating "America First," President Donald Trump's administration, the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Friday, "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acce...

To sum up so far:

1) The United States military is being deployed against US citizens as its new primary mission.

2) The Qatari Air Force has just been given permission to build a facility at a US base in Idaho.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

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Daily Wisdom:

Be very, very careful when describing the cleanliness and condition of your home. While it's a common metaphor, calling it "a war zone" could lead to a Nat'l Guard unit being deployed to your kitchenette in the current environment.

27 Chicago Police Officers Affected By Tear Gas, Superintendent Says

The party of Back the Blue has no trouble gassing the Blue, it seems.

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The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

TL;DR Peter Thiel is obsessed with philosophers who have grappled with Nazism, both pro and con, so he can be a better fascist.

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I have read that Peter Thiel is going about giving lectures about the Antichrist.

I can't stand people who do nothing but talk about themselves for an evening.

To appropriate the old movie joke, who do I have to fuck to get off this show?

America is truly the land of opportunity as long as you’re photogenic, can remember your lines, and hit your marks.

To go by our current leadership, nothing else is expected or required

Thank God my son and I are well beyond the age where the draft would have us sent to Portland, or Seattle, or Chicago, or wherever.

'I traveled 8K miles to hear this?' Retired general rips into Hegseth's 'canned' speech Retired Brig. Gen. Steve Anderson had nothing but scathing words on CNN Tuesday morning for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's all-hands speech to generals and admirals who had been called off their ass...

It occurs to me this morning that America can't even produce good fascists any longer. Think about it - we've been outsourcing for decades, and our current inspirations are Hungary and Russia, whose leaders can at least complete a thought.

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YouTube video by One Sunny Day Spike Milligan Calls Prince Charles "the Little Grovelling Bastard" (1994)

It should be noted that then-Prince (now King) Charles did NOT have Milligan imprisoned in the tower, exiled, beheaded or otherwise maimed.

Just a thought about how a real world leader handles a court jester.

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And, even at half-power, the Who are worth seeing live. They've had a little drama re: their drummer, Zak Starkey, and there's someone else behind the kit now, but Roger sounds ageless.

They also completely owned the 9/11 gig that Paul McCartney put together. They destroyed nearly everyone else on stage. The Who were BACK on that gig. Same with the Royal Albert Hall shows in 2002, the last John did with the band. They owned the place.

List of The Who tours and performances - Wikipedia

5) They got fired up again in 1999 and kept touring with most of the original lineup until 2002, when John died. They've been at it ever since but, with a lead singer in his early 80's, I can let them go without a qualm.

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2) The band reunited later in '85 for Live Aid, but delivered a bad set.

3) They came back together in '89 for their 25th Anniversary with Pete playing acoustic thanks to tinnitus having wrecked his hearing.

4) They didn't do anything until 1997 after that, touring Quadrophenia for charity

I should correct a couple of things, being a Who fan who's given you a false impression of things:

1) The band lost Moonie in 1978 and soldiered on by replacing him with Kenny Jones of the Small Faces. They called it quits the first time in 1982.

YouTube video by Steve Green Take The A-Train by Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Roy Clark

Gatemouth Brown making Roy Clark flat out work for it on a Duke Ellington standard.

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Obey Cat. Keep Sunday for resting and sleeping on laps.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

And leave us not forget Lash LaRue, either.

YouTube video by TeeVees Greatest The Lone Ranger 1949 - 1957 Opening and Closing Theme

I watched the Lone Ranger in reruns in the early days of cable. Yes, the shots of the LR looking out over the West to make sure it's still there & Tonto riding past the dead body are a bit hokey and easy to make fun of. The theme music/opening titles still make me happy.

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I think of them as the party of laws and orders: they want to make the laws, and they want us to follow orders. They really don't, as you said, care about anything else.

Paging Pete Townshend.....

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The week has been MAD - of course, that's just any ordinary day in the United States lately, as it has been for the past decade.

Must be why this song popped into my head. It's older, yes - but Rachel Fuller (and her husband, the Who's Pete Townshend) wrote a good one.

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Reads thus far: #booksky:

Methods & Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay by Craig Turner & Tony Soper

The Actor’s Analects by Charles J. Dunn & Bunzo Torigoe

The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories by P.G. Wodehouse

Hunting Magic Eels by Richard Berg

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Monday Cat is offline for the moment and will resume normal operations whenever she feels like it

In today's adventures, the new queen of New Box Hall, Spunky (aka Regina Fortis) has summited the refrigerator and planted the flag. She can now, at her discretion, survey the vast expanse of the kitchen from the crags and cliffs of the L/G refrigerator/freezer unit.