Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

I like political parties that aren’t owned by foreign adversaries.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Consistently wrong since 2002

The lights are all blinking red.

One way or another, he’s a liar.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

I would try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

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Overnight Open Thread With Music

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Last night while I was poking around YouTube looking for the Irish Rover music I posted I came across something I’d never heard before. The Blues Brother’s doing Sink the Bismark. It was supposed to be part of the set they played at Bob’s Country Bunker, but it was cut from the movie and never shown. Not wanting to mix and match last night, I decided to save it for tonight. So have at it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cs_es5DR8U

And in the spirit of this election season:

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  8. 8.

    Major Major Major Major

    @divF: Here’s another nice low-key one from the same album…

    Fix the overheads the glare’s become too much at last
    Have somebody try to boost morale amongst the cast
    Thermoses of coffee in the frozen dawn
    Blow a fuse and spend an hour just trying to get the power back on

    Space heater starves it out again
    Something’s gotta give
    Oblivion’s been calling since it found out where I live

  10. 10.

    Punchy

    To think that scene could actually happen along the Des Plaines river during a mid-Sept Trump rally in 2016 is pretty fucking….uh…terrible? Predictable?

  12. 12.

    divF

    @Major Major Major Major: Cross-referencing from the previous thread ? That’s not fair ! :-).

    Besides, “techie scum”. We should try to find some more elaborate invective. A favorite of mine was Wallace Shawn calling someone an “ass-licking poseur”. Not particularly useful here, though – more something you would call an extreme hipster, another species that we seem to have a surfeit of around town.

  13. 13.

    Anoniminous

    @divF:

    Country music is very popular in Sweden.

    Neat story, they sang this live at the 2015 Polar Music Prize with Emmy Lou Harris in the audience.

  18. 18.

    Anoniminous

    PostModern Jukebox’s cover of Wake Me Up.

    Real fan of Robyn Adele Anderson She’s been the lead singer in a number of PMJ’s songs and she nails every one.

  21. 21.

    Major Major Major Major

    @divF:

    Unknown engines underneath the city
    Steam pushing up in billows through the grates
    Frankie Lymon’s tracking “Seabreeze” in a studio in Harlem
    Its 1968.

    Just a pair of tunes to hammer out.
    Everybody’s off the clock by 10:00.
    The loneliest people in the whole wide world are the ones you’re never going to see again.

    Feel so free when I hit the avenue.
    Nothing like a New York summer night.
    Every dream’s a good dream,
    Even awful dreams are good dreams,
    If you’re doing it right.

  24. 24.

    BellyCat

    @Omnes Omnibus: Did you ever happen to express your interpretations of Machiavelli and Calvin from the (rather excellent) thread last night?

    It seems I’m not alone in wanting to hear your take, if you care to share!

    (And, yes, given your request, I have read Machiavelli [with awe — especially given the context and his personal circumstances when writing it], and been curious about why Calvin is revered by some [wondering if the source is more nutritive than popular interpretations], but am not deeply [or recently] familiar with his writings, first-hand).

    If you did, and I missed it, a link is welcomed. If you didn’t, and music is more engaging at the moment, please do consider these topics in some other more relevant thread someday.

    Both are hot-buttons of late (given the unhealthy and polarizing forces re-emerging) and greater insight would be useful.

  29. 29.

    Davebo

    My girlfriends family (brother, niece and nephew) are in from Scotland and this week has been a chore to say the least. Lots of cooking for me on the grill and when not a different restaurant each night. We’re taking them to San Antonio for a 3 day weekend so tonight I’ve had to get familiar again as I haven’t been there as a tourist in over 10 years.

    We’re staying on the Riverwalk and I have a few ideas for restaurants, etc. but any suggestions would be deeply appreciated! Thank god they are doing Fiesta Texas on Sunday so maybe I’ll get a few hours alone with my girl!

  33. 33.

    Mnemosyne

    @Punchy:

    As long as the 2016 Nazis also get knocked into the river and increasingly humiliated for the following 60 minutes, I’m game.

    For the non-Midwesterners, it’s a reference to the famous attempt by the American Nazi Party to hold a rally in Skokie, the Chicago suburb that was home to the highest percentage of Holocaust survivors in the United States. They won their court case on 1st Amendment grounds and then chickened out of the actual rally.

  34. 34.

    seaboogie

    @Davebo: El Mirador. It’s been 15 years or more, but went there once and went back again the same week. Reviews are still pretty positive.

  35. 35.

    Davebo

    @seaboogie:
    That’s great but believe it or not, we’re trying to avoid Mexican food. Doing that Monday night at my favorite tex mex joint back in Houston.

  38. 38.

    seaboogie

    @Davebo: Going to San Antonio and avoiding Mexican food makes *sense*? I did Lulu’s too on that trip, but El Mirador is a far cry from Lulu’s. Rather refined. I had something with duck, and went back for seconds….worth reconsidering. The fact that I remember the name of the place and the experience, ‘lo these many years, should tell you something.

  40. 40.

    daverave

    Saw the Blues Brothers at the closing of the Winterland in SF, New Year’s Eve 1978. They played their movie before they came out for their set. Bill Graham rode a giant joint down from the balcony and hit the stage at the stroke of midnight as the Dead broke into “Sugar Magnolia”. They played until dawn and then Bill served breakfast to the crowd.

  44. 44.

    Mary G

    @daverave: I saw the Blues Brothers open for Steve Martin at the Universal Amphitheater way back when. The Universal was still open air and Steve’s big bit was the arrow through his head. They jammed at the end with Steve and his banjo.

  45. 45.

    Bjacques

    @srv: some friends of mine in 8th grade restaged the Battle Of Tarawa with lots of historically-questionable Black Cats and rubber cement. They filmed it on 8mm, but the reel is alas lost to history.

  49. 49.

    Chris

    @Punchy:

    To think that scene could actually happen along the Des Plaines river during a mid-Sept Trump rally in 2016 is pretty fucking….uh…terrible? Predictable?

    At least the Illinois Nazis in this are just a small gaggle of weirdos with 0% approval rating. (In a modern remake, they’d be the Westboro Baptist Church). If this were a Trump rally, half the screaming audience would be with the fascists.

    @Mnemosyne:

    I did not know that. I knew about the rally, and the First Amendment case, but I didn’t know they’d chickened out of actually doing it. Typical. (And I also didn’t know that the place where they were trying to march was the one with the highest concentration of Holocaust survivors. That explains both why they really wanted to march there and why the opposition was even higher than usual).

  51. 51.

    Adam L Silverman

    @sukabi: I’ve seen both. I’ve asked a legal source what, if any, US laws might have been broken in the former. I’ve also seen a third article that delineates how he began planning the annexation of Crimea back to Russia for the oligarchs and Yanukovych back in 2006.

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