Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The lights are all blinking red.

Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

This blog will pay for itself.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

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    lahke

    Sorry, not tracking here. Been at Boston Early Music Festival all week, and due for my third concert of the night in half an hour. Have met folks from Miami, Baltimore, LA, Indianapolis, Texas– all over. If you get a chance next time, come to Boston!

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    lahke

    @Germy Shoemangler: yes. There’s also an exhibit hall full of instrument makers, and some truly gorgeous harpsichords. Pity they sound as if someone dropped a box of Slinkies– I’m more into strings myself.

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    Germy Shoemangler

    @lahke: A few days ago I saw the Gary Oldman film on Beethoven, “Immortal Beloved” and I read the pianos they used were from his time.

    I’ve always been curious how Mozart and Beethoven symphonies sounded back in their day, compared to modern performances.

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    Origuy

    @Omnes Omnibus: The Pogues did a song called “Mexican Funeral in Paris”. I’m not where I can listen to it at the moment. The Chieftains played with the mariachi band I mentioned.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Origuy: “Mexican Funeral in Paris” is actually a Shane MacGowan and the Popes song. I was sort of thinking of “Night Train To Lorca” which was Spanish not Mexican anyway.

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    Origuy

    There’s a historic connection between Mexico and Ireland; the Saint Patrick’s Battalion was a group of Irish immigrants who joined the Mexican Army during the war with the US. Most of them were deserters from the US Army; they had no particular loyalty to the US and the Mexicans were co-religionists. They are heroes in Mexico and Ireland.

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    Mike in NC

    @Origuy: They made a fairly decent movie about Los San Patricios that starred Tom Berenger: “One Man’s Hero” (1999).

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    Origuy

    Ok, I found the lyrics to “Mexican Funeral in Paris”. Not a traditional song in either tradition.

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    Origuy

    @Valdivia: Wikipedia says his mother was Basque and his father’s family name was originally the German “Fuchs”. The family did think they were Irish for a long time.

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    Valdivia

    @Omnes Omnibus: Basque doesn’t count because there were many Basque immigrants to Mexico during the Spanish Civil War. German is protestant. No bueno. Cosmopolitan but the right kind, it matters.

    A little trivia which is totally unrelated to this aspect of the discussion but related: Since the Revolution there was a very firm prohibition for politicians to attend mass in public. Fox was the first President to do that. His party the PAN were deadenders in the last part of the war over separation of Church and State in Mexico which lasted well into the 1920s (the Cristero War)

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    Gene108

    Just got back from seeing “Spy”. Holy fuck…it is one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time.

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    Tommy

    @lahke: Concerts like this rock. I was at Bonnaroo. None of the people I was with wanted to come with me and see Los Lobos play. It was about to rain. It rained so hard I felt it in my bones. I got soaked to my core but listened to Los Lobos play the shit out of stuff. Danced until it hurt in the rain. If you have never seen Los Lobos play live you are missing something stunning in your bucket list!

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    NotMax

    Just back from a Costco expedition.

    The store here is now selling chicken coops.

    Sign of the times?

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    Valdivia

    @NotMax: You must be the first person outside one of my classes who knows about dear O’Higgins. So I take my hat off to you.
    Monday am I will be spending 2 hours talking about him and San Martin.

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    Tommy

    @NotMax: That is amazing. I am somewhat fighting with my city over the concept of me and the lady that lives behind me having chickens. I live on the edge of town. I pay for my streets and street lights myself. City bills me. I keep asking them why can’t I do this or that if you don’t seem to care about many other things?

    She grows a lot of food. Her daugther had a lung transplate last year.

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    Origuy

    @Valdivia:

    German is protestant.

    Not all. Fox’s ancestors were Catholics from Strasbourg. It’s in France now, but it has gone back and forth many times over the centuries.

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