Robert Hardin

WQXR is playing a women composers marathon in honor of International Women’s Day right now!

White and orange text on blue backround: "There is no flag large enough to cover the shame [nor the crime] of killing innocent people." -- Howard Zinn HowardZinn.org

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame [nor the crime] of killing innocent people." -- Howard Zinn, @zinndigital.bsky.social

“The cruelty is the point,” but so is creating disillusionment and fear. The question is how to proceed without being severely impaired by fear and disillusionment — and how to maintain that mindset while staying compassionate, informed and ready to fight.

“If I have a boy, I’ll teach him how to love.

“If I have a girl, I’ll tell her the world is hers.”

— Monologue by the survivor of a Montreal technical school shooting, as represented in the film “Polytechnique”

Lucky you! (And you put in the work and regular feedings, of course.)

Yeah, they’re perceptive when it comes to potential enemies and possibly people who annoy them.

And also because of the crows’ autonomy and choices in the matter. They’re wild creatures, after all.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with training crows to respond to someone, but I understand why that might bother you, if you’re looking at your exchange with crows as an immediate relationship and part of a possible long-term friendship. I think that way when I feed crows, too.

“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration that comes from the teaching of biography and history.” — Carter G. Woodson, founder of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History

This month marks the 100th anniversary of Black History Month (which Carter G. Woodson established as Black History Week before Congress extended it)! It’s time to honor, discover and celebrate!

#depression #fatalism #morbidity #ptsd #originalmusic #resignation #imaginando #vs2 #throwback #gothmodulation #selfdoubt

I think it’s time to meet the other skulls.

He hasn’t got an original thought in his head, does he? “Optimus robots.”

Why are you reporting that Trump doesn’t care about the song, instead of reporting how much the rest of the American people — meaning everyone else on the continent — do care?

Crows are as smart as eight-year-old children. Maybe you should eat your own kids instead, assholes.

Nekima Levy Armstrong was just arrested by the DoJ after protesting a Minnesota church in which the pastor is a member of ICE. Here is what Armstrong said about the possibility of her arrest the day before it happened.

“I've seen regions of space that have fallen into lawlessness. The weak are objects. The rapists are kings. The poor? The poor are slaves. Life is nothing but emptiness, pain."
— from Foundation, S2E7: “In Salvor Hardin We Trust,” by Eric Carrasco and David Kob, who could have been writing abt us

Here’s an original piano piece that imitates the dead leaf butterfly and its frenetic exit strategy.

A rather large buff-tailed bumblebee is standing on its lower legs and failing to get comfortable.

The man upstairs is hoeing his floor with a baritone vacuum cleaner that sounds like a soirée of giant bumblebees failing to get comfortable.

He used to be my favorite right-wing neo-noir writer, and in books like White Jazz, he has amazing stylistic range and a really astute ear for voices. But I’ve found him a tad repetitious over the past decade.

Why do so many murderers find their routine once they’ve been rejected? That isn’t rejection’s lesson. It’s empathetic persistence and kind self-criticism, not revenge.

Defend our voting rights While the fight for fair redistricting goes to SCOTUS this term, Congress has a part to play, too. Call on Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to protect our voting rights.

For everyone who wants to take action to preserve and strengthen our voting rights:

Go to this page —

action.aclu.org/send-message...

— scroll to the bottom, and use the contact form to tell your congresspeople to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

Really beautiful, intricate images of crows in the environment, Richard. They remind me of silverpoint etchings.

What I hate is not being at a doctor’s mercy. It’s being subject to a doctor’s whim.

Ever learn things about your supplements routine that make you think it’s the equivalent of wearing a charmed amulet or tossing ashes over your shoulder?

(I watched Ulmer’s “Detour” for the first time last night, so please excuse the noir voice. It’ll fade.)

October, November, December
2025: The medical bills I receive
during that span will comprise
my final months of mercy. Your
last months, too, perhaps.

The Blackout Report Exposing the campaign to erase Black progress. Explore Onyx Impact’s Blackout Report — data, stories, and action to defend our history.

Joshua Doss and Onyx Impact’s “Blackout Report: The Real-World Cost of Erasing, Distorting and Suppressing Black Progress” looks slick enough to have been born on your shelf, but it was finalized in October 2025.

Oh, and did I mention it’s free? You can download it right here:

blackoutreport.org

If Alexander McQueen were alive today, could he pull off wearing Alexander McQueen?

(Most of us couldn’t beyond our early 30s, but damn, some of those looks were cool.)

If Trump drops a bomb and inadvertently sets off world annihilation, Zionist Christians who live long enough will thank him for stewarding their way to paradise.

Why is it that the more insane a leader gets, the more problematic the imperative to stop them becomes?