@maxineruvinsky.bsky.social

Works for me.

All Hail: Nick Suzuki!

Sadly: I have no trouble believing it. But there are people, likely less numerous, who are prepared to call out the chowderheads, and do, like you.

Quoting Martin Luther King Jr., about the struggle for civil and human rights: “We did not hesitate to call ourselves an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.”

All Hail: Bad Bunny.😍

So true. But that would take more backbone than the CBC is known for.

Yeah, it's called patriarchy.

When it comes to affairs of the heart most things are permissible.

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers. Jimmy Breslin

If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don’t like you. Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009

We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference

We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. (Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference)

Ha ha ha ha ha! Good one!

Me too.

Transit workers probably deserve better wages and working conditions (don't we all?). But instead of a collective tantrum, how about a little creative dissent. For example: drive your bus but don't collect fares, let people ride for free. And be kind to riders (a little kindness never hurt anyone).

Congrats and admiration to the millions of Americans who marched on No KIngs Day. May your tribe increase.

Credit where credit's due!

"Crazy talk" (as opposed to merely "stupid talk") ". . . requires that we be mystified, suspend critical judgment, accept premises without question, and (frequently) abandon entirely the idea that language ought to be connected with reality.” [Neil Postman, 1976]

YAY!

About Emperor Lego: JT is, as per usual, right on.

"Richard Nixon, on the basis of this sort of reasoning [that the worst of humans also deserve representatives] could have defended himself by arguing that since there are so many criminals in America they deserve to be represented by a President who is himself a criminal." [Neil Postman, 1976]

All true; what's strange is how American speechifiers keep saying stuff like "that's not who we are" when that clearly is who they are." Let's hope that's not all they are.

“From Putin to Modi to Xi to Trump, thugs dominate the globe, inciting tribal violence while they steal their nations blind. In its unchecked cruelty and unbearable pain, the destruction of Gaza is a symbol of our age.” – Peter Beinart

Yah, that was pretty funny. Consequences of RFK at the helm, not so funny.

Read this. Right on.

Thanks, I'll check it out. I'm incensed by people who want to argue about whether or not to call the Gaza abomination a genocide. Call it whatever you like. Only STOP it. Ending the massive suffering and death in Gaza is what matters (not arguments over what to call it).

Agree. A good start and good riddance.

That's disgusting, but take it as a compliment.

@tuka108.bsky.social

Happy birthday, Stretch!

I don't put anything past them now, and that's what scares me. I've never understood this kind of malignant ill will, and I'm not sure I want to. On the other hand, I think now, that I must (seek to understand it), if only for my own protection.