So, fellow progressives, stop thinking about suicide or moving abroad. Want to feel better? Eat a sour grape, then do something immediately, now, today. Figure out what you can do to help rescue the country — join something, send a little money to some group, call somewhere and offer to volunteer, find a politician you like at the local level and start helping him or her to move up.
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Think about how you can lend a hand to the amazing myriad efforts that will promptly break out to help the country recover from what it has done to itself. Now is the time. Don’t mourn, organize. — Molly Ivins
Open Thread: FTFY FTW
Fvck the Fvckin’ Yankees, For The Win. Not that I know from baseball, but somewhere Steve Gilliard is smiling tonight.
Here is a thread where we can celebrate as coarsely as we like, within the limits of the technology.
And this is the weirdest thing said technology has shown me recently:
Late Night Open Thread
A couple of musically upbeat songs with appropriately depressing lyrics to cap this day:
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With my sincere thanks to the commentors who posted Crooked Still and Kate Rusby here, the last time Cole called for music.
Solomon Burke RIP
It’s a sad day for music. One of my all time favorite quote from a book: “How can you like Art Garfunkel and Solomon Burke? It’s like saying you support the Israelis and the Palestinians.”
I’ll be posting YouTube videos later.
Update. It’s hard to find good live performances on YouTube, most of them are from the last few years, when he wasn’t quite his old self. But this, from 1987, is pretty good.
Open Thread: Musical Interlude
Sunday Evening Open Thread
Now it feels like Fall here, north of Boston…
Saxophone colossus
The only PBS-type show I really like is “American Routes” with Nick Spitzer. Sometimes there’s a little too much zydeco and Cat Power pour moi personnellement, but I love it anyway.
They’ve got Sonny Rollins on tonight, you can live stream it here. The best guest they’ve ever had, surpassing my previous favorite Jerry Wexler. The show has a cowboy theme and they inexplicably failed to discuss “Way Out West”, which has the greatest liner note quote of all time “get that cat way out on the range”. But he kills “Some Enchanted Evening”.