Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Everyone is in a bubble, but some bubbles model reality far better than others!

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

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

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

Bark louder, little dog.

You cannot shame the shameless.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

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Summer Kisses, Winter Tears

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Julee Cruise, probably best known for her performances in songs used in David Lynch’s Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, passed away yesterday.  RIP to a talented woman with a great voice.

Cruise contributed a cover of Elvis’ Summer Kisses, Winter Tears to Wim Wenders’ 1991 film Until the End of the World.  The centerpiece of that movie is Solveig Dommartin’s performance, including her duet with Elvis’ original version of the song, during a car ride that shows a pretty accurate view of what car navigation would look like in the near future:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcIiMlFgDc8

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  1. 1.

    germy shoemangler

    First time I ever heard Julee Cruise was on Peter Schickele’s radio show.

    He would play different songs and analyze them. He played “Rockin’ Back Inside My Heart” and I immediately went out and bought one of her albums.

    She was always one of my favorite singers/songwriters. Lupus.  Damn. And so young.

  3. 3.

    Old School

    RIP Julee. Always wished she would record more as the results were frequently haunting.

  6. 6.

    trollhattan

    Talented. Know the music but not the artist. Gone too soon, to be sure. ETA, the actress reminds me of Krysten Ritter.

    Unrelated, at this point I think Russia is copying the Republicans and not vice versa.

    Russia defends death sentences for captured Britons

    Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has defended the decision of an unrecognised court in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic to sentence two Britons and a Moroccan to death after fighting in Ukraine
    Lavrov said the men had committed crimes on DPR territory

    We have to execute them because we have to execute them. They’re making us.

  7. 7.

    trollhattan

    @germy shoemangler: Fingers crossed because it could not be better or more on point. Will has been an old man since he was fourteen. I still recall a piece he did that ultimately blamed society’s ills on dungarees.

  9. 9.

    Ken

    @germy shoemangler: I expect someone will dig through Wills’ older articles and find one demanding the real police show up when 8th-graders wear t-shirts with slogans he doesn’t like. Or wear their pants too low.

  17. 17.

    Gin & Tonic

    Also meant to say I appreciate the post. Haven’t thought about Wim Wenders in quite some time.

  21. 21.

    Matt McIrvin

    @JoyceH: One of Jen Psaki’s great moments early in Biden’s term was when she assured a questioner that to that point Joe Biden had not spent one instant thinking about Air Force One’s paint job.

    I guess he got around to it. The classic Kennedy-era livery design is certainly a good sight better than the boring one Trump was considering

    I’ve heard the bigger conundrum is what to do when the modified 757s usually used as Air Force Two (and sometimes as AF1, if the venue can’t handle a 747) need replacement. That model isn’t manufactured any more, but its overpowered nature that isn’t really matched by modern jetliners makes it particularly well-suited to the job.

  22. 22.

    JAFD

    June 10th is the anniversary of the passing of Luís de Camões, greatest poet of the Portuguese language, thus the national day of Portugal.
    The usual celebrations along Ferry Avenue in Newark – main street of Lusophone North America – have been dampened by epidemic. Still, would like to wish all jackals and other readers a Happy Portugal Day

  23. 23.

    thruppence

    OT, but is anyone else getting an explosion of spam cell phone calls? 28 (so far) in 5 hours. I had to turn on Silence Unknown Callers to concentrate on anything else…

  24. 24.

    sab

    Alchoholics Anonymous Founders weekend in Akron Ohio. A big deal. Thousands of people. Many on motorcycles. All of them sober and mostly wholesome and friendly. Hopefully masked but probably not.

    I really like this event.

  25. 25.

    Gin & Tonic

    I don’t know how this slipped under the radar, but the City of Kyiv has revoked the decree of Yuriy Dolhoruky from 1147 establishing the city of moscow. The decree is subtitled “Concerning the renewal of historic fairness and the correction of mistakes by prior higher administrators [could be ‘rulers’ – ed.] of the city of Kyiv.”

  28. 28.

    Immanentize

    I didn’t even need to see the clip —

    “You are on your own, Claire.”

    Great movie/movies in one.

    Sad about Julee Cruz. Of course I have her album.

  31. 31.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Baud: Well, the actual (current) decree refers to it as “a historical misunderstanding.”

    In more current news, Lithuania is talking about revoking the Treaty of Polyanovka (1634.)

  34. 34.

    dexwood

    Thanks for spotlighting Julee Cruise here and the Wenders movie which I first saw at a local art house theater. I don’t have a lot of soundtracks in my music library , but I have this one and still play it a few times a year because I’m a human from Earth.

  35. 35.

    Leslie

    Not sure what it says that I saw Elvis and assumed it meant Elvis Costello. Maybe that my subconscious has done its best to forget the racist AF Presley.

  36. 36.

    Misterpuff

    @Baud: 

    the Pronoun Police have gone to far, but who has the courage to take on their union?

    Not I, him, her, they, them,

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