What Ben Franklin Really Said
This content was posted October 24, 2024. … It is a popular line. “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” The credit/blame for this gem is assigned to Ben Franklin. Did he really say it? What was he talking about?
The good news is that Mr. Franklin did say these words. (Here is the text.) What follows was written by a lawyer. Prepare to be confused.
“The words appear originally in a 1755 letter that Franklin is presumed to have written on behalf of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the colonial governor during the French and Indian War. The letter was a salvo in a power struggle between the governor and the Assembly over funding for security on the frontier, one in which the Assembly wished to tax the lands of the Penn family, which ruled Pennsylvania from afar, to raise money for defense against French and Indian attacks. The governor kept vetoing the Assembly’s efforts at the behest of the family, which had appointed him. So to start matters, Franklin was writing not as a subject being asked to cede his liberty to government, but in his capacity as a legislator being asked to renounce his power to tax lands notionally under his jurisdiction. In other words, the “essential liberty” to which Franklin referred was thus not what we would think of today as civil liberties but, rather, the right of self-governance of a legislature in the interests of collective security.”
Mr. Franklin was writing on behalf of legislators who wanted to assess a tax. The quote is used by tax hating conservatives. The modern conservative wants to send troops to a conflict eight time zones away, and pay for it with tax cuts.
Another article tells much the same story, but with a couple of twists. There is a google gimmick that shows how often a quote is used. The BF quote was little known until the twentieth century.
The techcrunch article introduces contextomy, a dandy word for the rampant misuse of quotes. This explanation is from Matthew McGlone of the University of Texas at Austin. “Contextomy refers to the selective excerpting of words from their original linguistic context in a way that distorts the source’s intended meaning, a practice commonly referred to as ‘quoting out of context’. Contextomy is employed in contemporary mass media to promote products, defame public figures and misappropriate rhetoric. A contextomized quotation not only prompts audiences to form a false impression of the source’s intentions, but can contaminate subsequent interpretation of the quote when it is restored to its original context.” … Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken in 1946. “Southeastern Fair (beauty contest)” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah
Pauline Kael, Gina James, And James Broughton
This content was posted October 19, 2016. … Pauline Bessie Kael was the rockstar film critic. James Richard Broughton was the radical faerie poet laureate. They were lovers, and had a daughter, Gina James. Pauline and James were not married, contrary to what some naysayers would tell you.
Much of the information in this feature is taken from online reviews of Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, a 2012 biography written by Brian Kellow. Gina James, also known as Gina Broughton, was not interviewed for the book. Neither did she participate in the making of Big Joy, a movie about James Broughton. (A wig store, Gina Beauty Supply was located at 25 W Broughton St, Savannah GA 31401. GBS is now “Permanently Closed.”)
Pauline Bessie Kael was born June 19, 1919, Petaluma CA, and died September 3, 2001, Great Barrington MA. She stood 4 feet 9 inches tall. James Richard Broughton was born November 10, 1913, Modesto CA, and died May 17, 1999, Port Townsend WA. Both used their birth name throughout life. Both had lives, before meeting in the late forties.
When she met James Broughton, Miss Kael was living what would later be called the bohemian life. After moving to New York, and being dumped for composer Samuel Barber, Miss Kael moved back to California. “Returning to the Bay Area with her tail between her legs in 1945, Pauline became involved with the incredibly effeminate avant-garde filmmaker James Broughton. He managed to impregnate Pauline but threw her out as soon as she told him, whereupon she moved to Santa Barbara to give birth to her daughter, Gina, in 1948.”
“Like her early career, Kael’s personal life was also fraught with failures. Kellow says “she had a habit of falling for gay men” earlier in her life because “they tended to share her passions and enthusiasms.” She had a daughter … with one of them, experimental filmmaker James Broughton.”
“For a time, during the 1940s, he lived with … Pauline Kael. She encouraged his filmmaking endeavors but their relationship ended after she got pregnant. … Pauline Kael thought that Broughton made the biggest mistake of his life when he turned down a studio film after winning the prize at Cannes.” (Apparently Mr. Broughton could afford this attitude. Regarding his movie The Bed, Mr. Broughton said “It was the only film I created that ever made any money.”)
“Which brings us to the strange tale of Pauline’s only child, Gina James. … In 1948, at age 29, Kael got pregnant after she “talked her way into moving in” with James Broughton, a bisexual poet living in Sausalito. By Kellow’s account, Broughton was furious at the news of Kael’s pregnancy; he felt trapped and tricked by her. One of Broughton’s friends reported that he kicked Kael out of his house. She moved to Santa Barbara to have the baby. The birth certificate listed the father as “Lionel James, a writer”. It is one of the disappointments of the book that Kellow shines little light on Kael’s passion — or whatever it was — for Broughton, on how she processed that cruel rejection and on whether Broughton ever recognized Gina as his daughter.”
This review of Big Joy continues: “But interviews with Singer, waxing poetic about his years with the artist, are balanced by reminiscences from Broughton’s ex-wife and his abandoned son. Rather than only celebrating silliness, I found it admirable that the directors didn’t gloss over the pain he caused his wife and children. After all, when you think about it, he spent all of his life unable to decide if he was gay or straight; leaving a lot of broken hearts in his wake.”
“We learn from Kael that he flirted with everyone he met. “He rode off into the sunset with some guy,” his wife, Suzanna Hart tells us. “That was very sad for me, but not for him, which was…very irritating.” In her segments, Hart keeps her emotions in check but you can clearly read the sadness and anger in her face. The son doesn’t have much good to say about his absent father and the two daughters (the first by Kael and the second by Hart) both refused to be interviewed for the film. Singer has a lot to say about their blissful decades together, but he also comes off a bit heartless when he shows no guilt over breaking up what he calls Broughton’s “loveless” marriage.”
The baby daddy leaves, and the struggling writer becomes a single mom. “… Kael’s relationship with her actual daughter was something out of a Tennessee Williams play, and not in a good way. Kael home-schooled Gina and, as the girl grew up, kept her close, as a typist, projectionist, driver and right-hand man, and she banished any friend who actively encouraged the young woman to break out on her own. Though she was in many ways a loving and committed mother, helping to raise Gina’s son and always living nearby, one senses a Gothic selfishness in her mothering.”
Gina James declined to talk with Kellow for his book, but the author says Kael and her daughter had a sort of symbiotic relationship. “Pauline did not type, Pauline did not drive — Gina performed both those functions for her. And Gina was a very good critic of Pauline. She got to see Pauline’s copy before anyone else did and she often had very, very important and influential things to say. But Pauline really wasn’t wild about the idea of Gina breaking away and having her own life apart from her, and she didn’t do anything really to encourage her in that direction as far as I can see.”
Amazon one star comment: And her poor daughter – what a fate – TYPING all that. Poor Gina, — I can see her – Kellow described sitting silently in some coffee shop while her mother raved on and ON with her pet directors.
“An affair with the experimental filmmaker James Broughton produced a child, Gina, whom Kael raised by herself, Mildred Pierce–like, heroically supporting them with a number of odd jobs, including running a laundry. Gina’s heart condition required expensive surgery, and Kael ended up enticing Edward Landberg, the owner of a local art-house theater, Berkeley Cinema Guild. They had begun as co-programmers. As Landberg tells it: “One day, when I was over at her place, I happened to graze her breast with my hand, and she kind of looked up and said, ‘What have you got to lose?’” Their marriage proved a fiasco, but Landberg agreed to pay for Gina’s operation, which Kellow suspects had been Kael’s motive all along…. Kellow shows more independence in assessing Kael’s treatment of her daughter Gina, whose ambitions to become a dancer or a painter she did little to encourage, preferring to keep her on “a silver cord . . . she had also grown accustomed to the steady, dependable role that Gina played—as secretary, driver, reader, sounding board—and she was loath to give her up.” Gina, for her part, was mistrustful of the dynamic she witnessed between Kael and her acolytes.”
“The closest and longest-lasting partnership of her life was with her daughter, Gina James … James considered speaking to Kellow, but finally declined, leaving a blank space at the center of this otherwise vividly detailed biography. Gina lived with her mother till she was over 30, typed up her reviews after Pauline stayed up all night writing them in longhand, and gave up both college and a shot at a dance career to serve as her mother’s caretaker, companion, and driver.”
“Kellow cites the text of the breathtakingly passive-aggressive eulogy that Gina delivered at her mother’s funeral in 2001: “My mother had tremendous empathy and compassion, though how to comfort, soothe or console was a mystery that eluded her … Pauline’s greatest weakness, her failure as a person, became her great strength, her liberation as a writer and critic . … she turned her lack of self-awareness into a triumph.”
“Gina lived with Kael well into her thirties … That she married and had a child, Will, seemed to catch Kael by surprise, though she ended up adoring her only grandchild, someone with whom she could watch action movies with.”
“Kael died in 2001, when Will was about 19. Unfortunately, and Kellow made no mention of this in his book whatsoever, there’s a horrible postscript, one that may well have been the reason for why Gina declined to be interviewed for the book. On October 6, 2007, Will, then 25, went hiking in the East Mountain State Forest in the Berkshires. He was an avid hiker, not to mention a devoted martial artist. He had a girlfriend. He never came back. Gina reported him missing, but his body wasn’t found for more than week, on October 15. … “authorities found camping equipment nearby and while cause of death has not been determined, foul play is not suspected.”
UPDATE These two comments were made to the original post. Anonymous Your piece on Kael and Broughton is rife with misinformation and judgements galore and unbelievably badly written. Get a life and stop spreading falsehoods. And next time you put your fingers to a keyboard do your due diligence! James’ son was NOT ABANDONED! He lived happily with the two of us after the divorce. You fail to recognize that James’ ex-wife was a classic fag hag who had been married to another gay man before her relationship with James. She had been in psychotherapy for years before they got together and for many years after they split up. James certainly did not spend the rest of his life uncertain about his sexuality. Read his autobiography COMING UNBUTTONED and you’ll discover how misinformed your take on him is. You have done a great disservice to your readers by publishing such homophobic nonsense. Joel Singer · Sterling Wilson Curious about this autobiography, I found the following from a Publishers Weekly review “Broughton forsakes introspection for literary gossip and name-dropping: Kenneth Rexroth, Pauline Kael, Dylan Thomas, Anais Nin. The birth of a daughter is dispensed with in two sentences. Broughton’s insistence on making himself the center of attention increasingly intrudes.”
UPDATE A journey down an internet rabbit hole uncovered this item. It is from “Remembering Harry and John“, by Mark Thompson on the occasion of Harry’s 100th anniversary. “I remember the night we were socializing at the San Francisco Art Institute at a gala tribute for James Broughton. Harry (Hay) and James had sparked briefly as Stanford University undergraduates, but didn’t meet again until fifty years later at a faerie gathering. Few people knew that James had fathered a daughter with esteemed film critic Pauline Kael during their bohemian Berkeley days, but Harry was alert to the fact. Kael and Broughton were having their own reunion at the moment when, with typical impudence, Harry interrupted the conversation by loudly asking, “So, who was the mother and who was the father?” The stunned silence was punctured only by the whoosh of Kael’s furious departure.” … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The pictures are details of a panorama shot. “Fifth International Pageant of Pulchritude and Eleventh Annual Bathing Girl Revue, Galveston, Texas, August 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1930” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah
Emotional Teenage Heir
1002-0926 – Military Waste And Corruption, last week’s path journal, is now available wherever you get your nonsense. … The walk today went very well. I did 41:40, with no foot problems. The show was Starring Jean Harlow as Libby Holman (The Bisexuals, Part 3) on You Must Remember This. “While riding a crest of Broadway stardom – and in a serious romance with a woman – Libby is pursued by Zachary Smith Reynolds, the reckless, emotional teenage heir to the Camel tobacco fortune. Just months after their marriage, at the close of a drunken party, Reynolds is dead of a gunshot wound to the head. Was Libby responsible?” The scandal happy press had a good time with this story.
1003-1023 – The walk today was around the block. I went to the end of the street, over one block, and came back. The foot dizziness kicked in at the furthest distance possible from the house. The dizziness went away, and I walked for 1:05:28.
The first show was Colm Tóibín Reads Tobias Wolff on The New Yorker Fiction Podcast. An army lifer keeps having boyfriends, and somehow stays out of trouble. I may go back and try listening again, but this story was not working for me today.
The second story was Quincy Jones: True or False? His Wild Life and the Stories Behind His Wildest Claim on Disgraceland. Quincy Delight Jones Jr. was a talented producer and arranger. He was also a piece of work, with a lot of inconvenient opinions. This episode is mostly based on an interview that QDJ gave to GQ. This post will cut out the middleman, and quote from the source … unless the paywall gets in the way. Another problem is the nagging suspicion that QDJ is full of shit.
“When you’ve been a dog all your life, God gives you beautiful daughters and you have to suffer. … Frank (Sinatra) was always trying to hook me up with Marilyn Monroe, but Marilyn Monroe had a chest that looked like pears, man.” … GQ: “And then in the first proper meeting you had in Hollywood, the producer walked in, saw you, and walked out again?” QDJ: “Yes, he did. And he went back into the other room and said, ‘I didn’t know Quincy Jones was a Negro.’ Truman Capote, that motherfucker, he called [director] Richard Brooks up on In Cold Blood and said, ‘Richard, I don’t understand why you’ve got a Negro doing the music for a film with no people of color in it.’ And Richard Brooks said, ‘Fuck you, he’s doing the music.’ Richard was tough.” (Jake Brennan, the voice of Disgraceland, did a Truman Capote imitation when he told this story.)
“You think racism is bad now, you should try the ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, ’60s. Vegas in ’64 was fucked-up. That was why Frank had Mafia bodyguards for everybody in Basie’s band and me. Lena, Belafonte, Fats Domino, they used to play the main theater for $17,000 a week, used to have to eat in the kitchen. Couldn’t go in the casino. Had to go to a black hotel across town. In ’64! You can’t even imagine that. But if you’re black, that’s what you get used to in America.” … “No, I wouldn’t talk. Talk about what? I’ve seen him shooting in his testicles, man. Because heroin’s a strange drug. Ray (Charles) all of his veins were dried up and black, and he’s shooting himself in the testicles, man.”
“In early 1969, Steve McQueen called Jones and asked him to go and see a rough cut of Bullitt. Jones brought along his hairdresser, a man named Jay Sebring, and after the movie, they made plans for later that evening. “He said, ‘I’ll meet you at Sharon’s, because I’ve got some stuff for your hair,’ I was losing my hair.” But Jones didn’t go. “I forgot about it,” he says.” … Naturally, this was the night when Sebring and Sharon Tate were murdered by the Manson Gang. This is an awful lot of six degrees stuff, and some of it is tough to believe. “They say coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”
The dgl episode discussed Michael Jackson stealing of songs on the albums QDJ produced. These comments were apparently in Vulture magazine, behind a paywall. “In an interview with Vulture in 2018, Jones stated, “I hate to get into this publicly, but Michael stole a lot of stuff … The notes don’t lie, man. He was as Machiavellian as they come.” … If QDJ was producing the records, wasn’t he a participant in this thievery?
1004-1009 – The walk today was wet. I did 38:00, with no foot dizziness. I was trying to have a headache, and passed on the canned entertainment. The shows will be there later. It was drizzling most of the walk, progressing to light rain on the last lap. My attempted headache felt better when I was through with my walk.
1005-1026 – Today’s walk was spent dodging black walnuts. It is the season for the obnoxious green grenades to fall out of the tree. I gathered a bucketfull before starting the walk. At the end of my first lap, there were three more on the ground. … The walk went smoothly. I did 1.10 miles in 40:50 with nuisance level dizziness.
The entertainment today was #27 Enemy: The Germans’ War, ep. 3 – The Fighting Man on
The Martyr Made Podcast. Darryl Cooper is in top form, telling the story of Communist revolution in 1919 Bavaria. Germany, and the rest of Europe, was in bad shape after the end of the war.
The part I listened to today mainly dealt with the Bavarian Soviet Republic. In 1919, a group of Communists took over Bavaria. They were soon kicked out of power. There was a great deal of fighting and bloodshed. Many of the revolutionary leaders were Jewish, which caused its own set of problems. This is a greatly condensed version of what happened.
It was about this time that Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill got into the picture. As you may have heard, Darryl said that WLSC was the “real villain” of WW2. People who don’t like Darryl were quick to repeat this comment as loudly as possible. Ad Hominem attacks are an essential part of Hasbara. You criticize the Israeli war machine at your peril.
To quote from a previous chamblee54 piece: “Just a month before Hitler was discharged from the German Army, in March 1920, Winston Churchill had published that editorial … called ZIONISM versus BOLSHEVISM A STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE. … “the international Jews were engaged in quote a worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization. There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these International and for the most part atheistical Jews.” … WLSC would go on to be a fervent supporter of Zionism, and opponent of Communism. “… as colonial secretary in the 1920s, Churchill took steps that enabled 300,000 Jews to emigrate to Palestine … As prime minister, in 1941, he proclaimed that “I was one of the authors” of Zionist policy. Indeed, among the lengthy catalogue of criticisms of Churchill was that “He was too fond of Jews.”
1006-1026 – The walk today was picking up. I did 1.72 miles in 55:35. I went one of the routes around the block, with a detour to the railroad tracks. I saw some trash on the road, and picked it up. You can wish into a bag, or you can pick up trash, and put it in another bag. Which bag will get full first?
The show today was more of #27 Enemy: The Germans’ War, ep. 3 – The Fighting Man on
The Martyr Made Podcast. Darryl is talking about what is left of the German Army in 1920. They are putting down Communist forces in Bavaria and Latvia. The woman you show mercy to is likely to kill you. After a while, the soldiers respond accordingly.
0930 – The walk today was the first one of the fall where I wore long pants. I am going to miss all those cargo shorts pockets. I walked for 36:00 with no foot dizziness. The show was Episode 326: The Case That’s Shaking Cornell—and the Internet on Blocked and Reported. Jesse and Katie were talking about the Cornell Seven. I soon realized that I was no longer interested in that topic.
1008-1044 – Today’s walk was not as long as it could have been. My feet were working great, but I had to cut the walk short after 37:00 to take my brother to the grocery store. The first podcast was 329: Does Claude Have Charisma? on Conspirituality. Conspirituality is a great name for a show. It turned out to be debunking of alternative ideas. I would like to know who is financing Conspirituality. I only listened to 13 minutes, including the many commercials.
The second show was EP:64 – The Permanent Crisis on Darryl Cooper & Scott Horton – Provoked. Scott and Darryl are just talking shit, which is not their best work.
DC: “One thing that pisses me off about terrorists is they ruin everything good. … I was reading about all the radicals back in the 60s. The first ones who started bombing buildings like the weathermen, you know how they got their dynamite? They went down to a construction supply store and said, “Sir, I’d like a crate of dynamite.” And they’re like, “Oh, sure. Here you go.” And they just drove home with a crate of dynamite. We could have had crates of dynamite like over the counter if it wasn’t for those guys. They just ruin everything.”
When I am on the path, I use Samsung notes to dictate comments. It turns out that my dollar store earbuds have a lousy microphone. The device had another problem, which I noticed today. If you click on a button, you get a spanish keyboard, instead of the english one. It turns out that if the device is set for spanish typing, your dictated notes will be in the spanish alphabet, which is really weird. “The Horn of Africa is ready to explode” came out as “The horno de África se ve tu explode.”
For more information about my morning walk, please read The Path Journal. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Jack Delano took the social media pictures in November 1941. “ Boyd Jones eating his breakfast, Greene County, Georgia” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah
October 7, 2026
Today is the three year anniversary of October 7. I feel like I should mark the occasion, but have nothing good to say. Bibi’s dream war is raging in Iran. The conflict has spread to Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, and the United States. The ongoing Palestinian nightmare continues in Gaza, Judea, and Samaria. “When they release the hostages, this will all be over.”
October 7, 2023 was just another Saturday. Then I saw this tweet: @JDVance1 “Praying for our friends in Israel this morning. Just an awful situation.” 5:57 AM · Oct 7, 2023. Having JD Vance tell me that we were in a world of shit is an unwelcome bit of synchronicity.
47 minutes later, the Senator from Ohio got on the bandwagon. @JDVance1 “As we watch this horrible situation in Israel unfold, Americans must face a stark truth: our tax dollars funded this. · Money is fungible, and many of the dollars we sent to Iran are being used to now kill innocent people. · This must stop. · Israel has every right to defend itself. I wish our friends well, but most of all I wish they weren’t fighting against weapons bought with our money.” 6:44 AM · Oct 7, 2023. The media wasted no time blaming Iran for the attack. Hamas was always referred to as “Iran backed.” The pressure for Bibi’s dream war picked up a notch that day.
October 7, 2024 was a monday. I posted my notes from the previous week. There were several items regarding the escalating tragedy in Gaza: Bibi’s Plan for Peace through Wider War · 18 killed in Israeli strike on West Bank’s Tulkarem refugee camp: Ministry · I found this quote by @elilake: “because the Palestinians continue to think that a strategy of causing atrocities will eventually convince Jews to leave a country.” Max Blumenthal calls Eli Lake the Zionist Egg.
The big hasbara story that week was The Message, a new book by Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates. It seems as though TPC went to the West Bank, and saw how Israel treats the Palestinians. For some reason, hasbara media thought this would make a good distraction from the ongoing slaughter in Gaza. This included a piece at The Free Press: The Fantasy World of Ta-Nehisi Coates His new book, ‘The Message,’ is a masterpiece of warped arguments and moral confusion. By Coleman Hughes.
“One noteworthy appearance was on CBS Mornings. Tony Dokoupil gave TPC a rude greeting: “I have to say when I when I read the book I imagine if I took your name out of it took away the awards and the Acclaim took the cover off the book … the content of that section would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist.” Later, Mr. Dokoupil inadvertently says something many of Israel’s neighbors might agree with: “If you were to read this book you would be left wondering why does any of Israel exist what a horrific Place committing horrific acts on a daily basis.”
October 7, 2025: “Today is the two year anniversary. As the scope of the tragedy became apparent, I knew two things. One, Israel would exponentially over-retaliate, killing thousands of Palestinians for every Israeli that died. (In my wildest conspiratorial imagination, I would not have thought that Israel would kill hundreds of its own citizens.) Two, there was going to be a tsunami of toxic rhetoric. Israel has known how to play to American public opinion for a long time. This second aspect of this calamity is what today’s post will focus on. Specifically, “Dave Smith vs. Coleman Hughes Debate: Israel and U.S. Foreign Policy.” If you want to read about the Smith-Hughes chat, follow the link.
Debating Coleman Hughes is like trying to nail Jello to a wall. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. John Vachon took the social media picture in January 1941. “Steelworker at grievance committee meeting. Steelworkers organizing committee office. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania”
©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah
Quoting James Baldwin
This content was posted October 7, 2022. … James Arthur Baldwin has become a star on facebook, thirty five years after his death. People love to quote him, and post artsy pictures of his face. Over the past year I have seen three JAB memes that required action. Once you start to research, there is no telling what you are going to find.
“I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” This item is from a 1966 article that Mr. Baldwin wrote for The Nation. “One is in the impossible position of being unable to believe a word one’s countrymen say. “I can’t believe what you say,” the song goes, “because I see what you do”—and one is also under the necessity of escaping the jungle …”
“The song goes” is what the memes leave out. Ike Turner wrote the song. The Ikettes sing “I can’t believe…,” while Tina goes “agh, agh, agh, agh, agh, agh, agh, agh, agh.” Ike knew about being a no-good man. Tina looks better in a short skirt than JAB.
“I’d like to leave you with one more short quote from James Baldwin, “Whoever debases others is debasing himself.” This is from a June, 2020 video about racism. This quote is from Letter from a Region in My Mind, a 1962 essay in The New Yorker. LFARIMM clocks in at 22,114 words. JAB could crank out a word count. Pack a lunch when you start reading.
LTARIMM covers a lot of ground. The “debase” quote comes in after Mr. Baldwin describes a visit to Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam. Soon, Mr. Baldwin starts talking about race in the United States. One quote stood out: “But white Americans do not believe in death, and this is why the darkness of my skin so intimidates them.”
LTARIMM has an amusing story. “By this time, I was in a high school that was predominantly Jewish. This meant that I was surrounded by people who were, by definition, beyond any hope of salvation, who laughed at the tracts and leaflets I brought to school, and who pointed out that the Gospels had been written long after the death of Christ. … My best friend in high school was a Jew. He came to our house once, and afterward my father asked, as he asked about everyone, “Is he a Christian?”—by which he meant “Is he saved?” I really do not know whether my answer came out of innocence or venom, but I said, coldly, “No. He’s Jewish.” My father slammed me across the face with his great palm, and in that moment everything flooded back—all the hatred and all the fear, and the depth of a merciless resolve to kill my father rather than allow my father to kill me—and I knew that all those sermons and tears and all that repentance and rejoicing had changed nothing.”
“The place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.” This quote proved more difficult to chase down. It does not appear in any of Mr. Baldwin’s work. The earliest mention appears to be behind The New Yorker paywall. “During his wanderings, Baldwin warned a friend who had urged him to settle down that “the place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it.” There is no link to a source.
The New Yorker article is cited by Lithub, which is then cited by New Transcendentalist. “These Timely James Baldwin Quotes … ,” from Bustle, credits the quote to “a 1957 letter to Sol Stein.”
Sol Stein “attended DeWitt Clinton High School, where he served on the Magpie literary magazine with Richard Avedon and James Baldwin.” We don’t know if Mr. Stein was the one who made David Baldwin slap his step-son. A paywalled article, about the correspondence between Mr. Stein and “Jimmy,” does not mention the “place in which I’ll fit” quote.
The WaPo article did have a mind-blowing quote. “In the introduction to the book, Baldwin would ponder his influences: “When one begins looking for influences, one finds them by the score. … the King James Bible, the rhetoric of the store-front church, something ironic and violent and perpetually understated in Negro speech…” I saw this quote in 1976, in a college textbook. At the time, I thought this was an amazing quote. It stayed in my mind until the next life changing detail came along, not to be thought of again for forty six years.
Chamblee54 has written about JAB before. UPDATE: @QuoteResearch Replying to @chamblee54 @HilalIsler @lithub “It appeared in a 1957 letter from James Baldwin and Sol Stein reprinted in “Native Sons” (2004) edited by Sol Stein. I am planning to create a QI article on this topic” @QuoteResearch “Please get over the notion, Sol, that there’s some place I’ll fit when I’ve made some ‘real peace’ with myself : the place in which I’ll fit will not exist until I make it. You know and I know that the ‘peace’ of most people is nothing but torpor.” … James Baldwin to Sol Stein.” JAB signed the letter “Jimmy.” … Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken April 27, 1961. Artistic Beauty Institute 5 1/2 Auburn Avenue, NE ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah
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This is your monday morning reader for today. Like the Dragon Con parade, we have starship troopers, barnyard poopers, star wars theme, blondes on the team, ghost busters, crop dusters, trekkies, beckys, vlad the impaler, chad the inhaler · Don Miguel Ruiz called his ideas agreements, not beliefs. What is important is what you do, not what you think. 1 – “Be impeccable with your word 2 – “Don’t take anything personally 3 – “Don’t make assumptions 4 – “Always do your best · Our group. Front_Clancy, Jon Back_Jef, Ted, Snowdancer, Daniel, Luther · Heteronormative Bonnie And Clyde, Just Too Lazy To Pray Away The Gay, You Can Die Of Your Shame Or Live With Pride, Give Me Librium Or Give Me Meth Outside, Gurl Didn’t Mean To Steal Your Hair Spray, Miss Dorothy Is Always On Our Side · I had the privilege of reading some of my poems at the full moon variety show. I create graphic versions of my poems. The pictures are more important than the text to me. Here is the text from the five poems I read, along with a sample of the pictures. There are links included, so you can see the pictures. · What shall it avail in or James? One sixteen do not act in · In 2009, BHO gave a speech to Congress about health care. At 24:03, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted “You Lie.” The President paused, said “that’s not true,” and continued with his address. In the show biz department, it was a win for the President. · Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz and William James O’Reilly Jr. once had an angry discussion about white privilege. This was entertainment in 2014. · Here is the story of ten days walking on the path, and listening to information entertainment. · I would like to see a taboo on sending semen into another body, except with a woman you want to get pregnant. This would prevent HIV transmission. This is not going to happen. · This is the story of former Atlanta nightclubs, many of which featured live music. 688 Spring Street is still standing. The former 688 is now Concentra Urgent Care. Most of the other buildings have been torn down. · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress Jack Delano took the social media picture in November 1941. “Boyd Jones, playing tug-of-war with classmates during play period at the Alexander Community School in Greene County, Georgia” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah
Where Is That Place
This content was published October 28, 2018. … This blog has an email address listed. It is seldom used. The host is a faded internet company that rhymes with booboo. Once proud email has become a spam magnet. The email address there is checked every once in a great while. Yesterday was one of those times. There was a surprise.
Friday, June 5, 2015, 2:52 PM
Do you know exactly where the Agora Ballroom was in the Georgia Terrace Hotel Also I am trying to locate photos of the following locations – Does you any that we can use? Please let me know ASAP – I am on an extremely tight deadline need photos by Monday morning if possible. Exteriors or interiors are great. Please let me know if you have any.
12th Gate Coffee House (located on 10th street in Midtown,) Club 112 (located at Lavista and Cheshire Bridge,) Lenny’s (either or both of their two locations in the Old Fourth Ward,) Great Southeast Music Hall (either or both of their two locations Lindberg Plaza or Cherokee Plaza,) Echo Lounge (located in East Atlanta,) Hedgens (located in Buckhead,) Agora Ballroom (located in Georgia Terrace hotel,) Muelenbrink’s Salon (located at the Underground.) Joeff Davis Photo Editor Creative Loafing
Thursday, July 9, 2015 11:12 PM
Hey I apologize for the tardy answer. I don’t use this email very often. The Agora was at the end of an alley off Peachtree. It was next door to the Ga Terrace Hotel, though not in the Hotel building itself. The ballroom was in a fire in the early eighties, and was torn down. I don’t have any of the pictures that you needed a month ago.
Friday, July 10, 2015, 11:49 AM
Thanks here is the piece we did: That was then, this is now.
Friday, July 10, 2015, 1:21 PM
Hey thanks for getting back to me. The article was cool, even without my contribution. This seems like a good excuse for a blog post. I have some comments about some of the locations listed. For instance, my mother bought groceries at the Cherokee Plaza A&P every thursday for 37 years.. I would like to use your letters, and link to your article, in my post.
Chamblee54 has had posts about four notable Atlanta performance venues: 688 Spring Street, Georgian Terrace Ballroom, The Great Southeast Music Hall, and Richards. Two were on the list of requests. As for the other two, 688 Spring Street, home of Rose’s Cantina and 688, is now a doc-in-a-box facility, Concentra Urgent Care. The site of Richards, across from Eddie S. Henderson Stadium (Formerly Grady Stadium) on Monroe Drive, is now a Trader Joe’s.
The CL article, That was then, this is now, is fun to look at. There are some good pictures. There are a couple of mistakes in the piece, which this post will try correct.
The Great Southeast Music Hall is the scene of many cherished memories for those of a certain age. The post linked here has more comments than any other Chamblee54 post. There are two google earth images, one for Broadview Plaza, and one for Cherokee Plaza.
In Broadview Plaza (now known as Lindbergh Plaza), the Music Hall was in the corner of an L shaped building. The space is currently a part of the parking deck for Target. According to google earth, the Home Depot takes up almost the entire parking lot of the old shopping center.
In Cherokee Plaza, the space where the Music Hall was is the south part of a Kroger. CL says it was in the parking lot, which simply is not so. This parking lot is too small, which is one reason the Music Hall failed there. In the nineties, the A&P expanded, and took over the space occupied by the theater. In 1998, A&P closed their Atlanta operations. The stores were taken over by Kroger.
The third google earth image is for the intersection of Peachtree Street and Ponce De Leon Avenue. This is the location of the Georgian Terrace Ballroom. This was the setting of Alex Cooley’s Electric Ballroom, The Agora Ballroom, and several other venues. This facility was in a fire, and torn down. An annex to the Georgian Terrace Hotel was built. This annex is roughly where the Ballroom was.
One of the places CL mentions was Backstreet. The building at Peachtree and Sixth was a series of nightclubs in the early seventies. Backstreet opened in late 1974. It was the premier chacha palace in Atlanta for many years. When the property became valuable enough to attract the money of developers, the city discovered enough violations to shut down the party. (1974 was a golden age for Atlanta nightlife. The Great Southeast Music Hall, Richards, and Alex Cooley’s Electric Ballroom were all in operation in 1974. ACEB was in the Georgian Terrace Ballroom.)
Club 112 catered to an African American clientele. The space had been many businesses over the years, with a Fred Astaire dance studio next door. Around the time Backstreet was getting started, the space was called the Locker Room. A drag show, featuring the Hollywood Hots, performed there. The Locker Room was a “private club,” and was able to stay open on Sunday night. It was the only place open on Sunday, and was packed. The Locker Room was owned by Robert E. Llewellyn, who was later convicted of having a business rival murdered.
The 12th gate was in the middle of the block, somewhere on tenth street. It was not on the corner of Spring Street. A seedy Jim Wallace gas station was nearby. This place was open before I went out very much. There is a hazy memory of seeing the Hampton Grease Band there. After the show, Bruce Hampton walked up to me, holding a thumb and finger making a circle in front of one eye. Gustav Valentine Berglund III then asked me what sign I was.
By the time Lenny’s was in business, I was a retired drunk. I seldom went downtown after dark. Somehow, the party went on without me. Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken in 1942. “Man and woman in formal evening attire; restroom directional sign in upper right of photo: “White Restroom.” One in a series of miscellaneous war-time photographs taken for the Atlanta Evening Post.”
©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah
Military Waste And Corruption
0918-1036 – Cultural Revolution, the path journal from last week, is up. The walk today was a new week. I did 50:05, with no foot dizziness. The first show was the rest of Vicki Lawrence on The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan. … WPC: “Well, thank you so much. Hope you had a good time.” VL: “Thank you. That was quick and easy. Its not like going to the dentist at all.”
The second show was Who Gets to Tell the Story? on What’s Ray Saying. Dr. Ray Christian is a Black man, with a lot of stories to tell. Ray discussed the question, who decides how Black people’s stories are told? Ultimately, it comes down to money and power. The people who have capital, and want a return on their investment, decide what stories are told.
0919-1109 – The walk today was perfunctory. It was another blah day, where I did 38:20 because I was supposed to. I did feel better when it was over, and my feet performed well. The first show was Why’s everybody going to Japan? on Search Engine. Tourists are going to Japan on vacation, and this show talked about it. After that got boring, I listened to Ed Asner on Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast. Eddie Asner (wikipedia verified birth name) is a Jewish man who played Santa Claus. Gilbert cackled a lot. We learned that Santa has jock itch.
0920-1035 – The walk today was overcast. I did 51:15, with no foot problems. The story was Sarah Anderson Reads “Dark Horse” on The New Yorker: The Writer’s Voice. The first line of the story: “In my mind, my father is fucking the horse again.” The tale goes downhill from that point. To be fair to Daddy, the story is told by the Daughter, who has a few screws loose herself. Whether Daddy and Claudia … the horse, named for Claudia Schiffer … ever actually did the deed is not known.
0921-1027 – The walk today was linear. I did 1.51 miles in 49:12, with no foot problems. The show today was Episode 324: Free Speech, Free Palestine, Free Macklemore, Free Ed Sheeran, Free Hobo Johnson, Free Podcast on Blocked and Reported. Catherine Ronan Herzog and Jesse Richard Singal were talking about current events, and said some stupid things. JRS: “I just think that makes it sort of difficult to allow for harsh criticism of Israel and people should be allowed to criticize Israel harshly.” RCH: “This is even if you don’t think that Israel has committed genocide, which I don’t. That’s not a word that I use. It’s a war, a war that was started by the other side.”
One of the major problems in these conflicts is rhetoric and propaganda. You can make an argument for anything. Whether it is true, or relevant, does not matter. The ongoing argument about the g-word (Genocide, not God) is just one more distraction. For the record, I don’t like the g-word either. I prefer war crimes, terrorism, atrocity, industrial scale homicide … the list is a thesaurus away.
Recent revelations about the Lavender program make this point even clearer. Israel is collecting data on Gaza residents, and scoring them on the likelihood of Hamas involvement. Israel then bombs the residences of suspected Hamas members, and kills the women and children at the same time. Maybe you can add moral abomination to the list of crimes perpetrated by Israel. … If Israel is so good at monitoring the lives of Gaza residents, why were they surprised on October 7?
CRH: “And I think that in liberal circles, the kind of circles that you’re in …” Nitpickers will say that she meant you’re in, but since Katie is an apologist for the atrocity-happy Netanyahu regime, I am going to go with urine. … CRH: “One thing that I do appreciate about what he did in addition to taking his million dollars and putting it towards building more Hamas tunnels …”
0922-1036 The walk today was an equinox. Summer is FINALLY over, at least on the calendar. I did 48:00 with no foot dizziness. The show today was EP:62 – Special Guest: Bill Buppert, on Iran on Darryl Cooper & Scott Horton – Provoked. Darryl and Scott sometimes have guests to relieve the repetition. Mr. Buppert talks about how having too much oil money spoiled Saudi Arabia, resulting in a lousy army. … Darryl talks about this one ship that everyone praised, until their air defenses went kaput. It turns out that nobody knew how to maintain the equipment, but told superiors that they did. Meanwhile, SH adds “I think we’re all probably better off if I butt out of this conversation.”
0923-0811 The walk this morning was a level playing field. I had to take Mac to the marta station, and decided to walk in that neighborhood. This first order of business was the men’s room at walmart. After that, I took a level path for a couple of blocks. A level surface of wood and concrete is dramatically different from my normal rough path on a hill. As a result, I did 1.62 miles in 48:24.
The first show today was the last part of EP:62 – Special Guest: Bill Buppert, on Iran on Darryl Cooper & Scott Horton – Provoked. Stories of military waste and corruption never grow old.
BB: “Darryl, every year that general officer would come to Kabul to take over Afghanistan. He’d stand there with his hands on his hips and say, “I’ve got this.” And the only thing he’s got is his dick in his hand and he’s going to slam it into the cash register at the end of the year.” DC: “Let’s leave everybody with that image. I gotta go feed my chickens, and do some harvesting before it gets dark.”
The second show was Who Killed Roxanne? How a podcast helped solve a 44-year-old Louisiana murder on Gone South. A team of detectives and journalists were trying to solve a 40 year old case in Covington LA. As one segment came to a halt, the announcer said everyone involved was trying to get justice for Roxanne Sharp. The next thing you heard was an ad for Chumba Casino.
0928-1032 I was at a spirituality retreat from Wednesday to Sunday last week, and am getting acclimated to Georgia again. I was uncertain how the walk would go, but did 43:41 with no foot dizziness. There were no foot problems over the weekend, but my right knee got wound up in some positions that made me worry. The knee is doing fine today. Maybe I just need to let go, and quit worrying so much … famous last words.
The first podcast today was The Back Row on The Truth. You never know what to expect with a short story. The Truth has actors playing parts, instead of the omniscient author voice reading the script. This story was fun before the commercials, and became less interesting after the first lap.
The second show today was
Episode 325: What’s The Matter With Seattle? on Blocked and Reported.” Jesse was absent, and Katie talked to two men from the Seattle media world. Katie refrained from saying things that piss me off. (see 0921 above) The show was fun to listen to.
0929-1119 – It was a great day for walking. I did 1.79 miles in 55:08, with no foot problems. My car is in the shop for routine maintenance, and I walked up to the old location of the garage. The show today was EP:63 – AQ at the UN on Darryl Cooper & Scott Horton – Provoked. It was just SH and DC, and they really didn’t say much new. DC just released a new episode, #27 Enemy: The Germans’ War, pt. 3 – The Fighting Man. I am morally obligated to listen. Just what I need … a five hour show, while the other shows I follow pile up. … The only problem with my walk was the reading glasses, in my pants pocket, breaking in half. Dollar store reading glasses are the best part of cataract surgery.
SH: “I’m really a bircher at heart on this stuff. I’m perfectly fine with getting out of the UN altogether.” Part of the hasbara process is demonizing anyone who does not support Israel slaughtering her neighbors. This is what is behind the trash talk about “amateur historian” Darryl Cooper. But then you hear quotes like this, and realize that Scott and Darryl might be, at least partially, serious right wingers. … The stuff SH and DC are putting out about the USA/IDF war machine is terrific. That does not change the fact there are a lot of things I disagree with them on. I probably would have hated SH and DC forty years ago.
DC: “A while back I was blasting on my noise cancelling headphones as I was doing something around the house. And I like to sing. I’m a terrible singer, but I like to do it. And I didn’t know my wife was standing right behind me doing something. And I’m singing this song in like a low guttural growl. I say “ he preaches salvation in the loins of women.” And she’s like, “What is going on here?” Singing with headphones on is a bad idea.
0930-1214 The walk went well. We are getting into the season where the late mornings are not as horribly hot. I walked for 48:56, with nuisance level dizziness on early laps. The show today was The Pet Cemetery Murders: Part 1 on Gone South. Dorothy Thompson owned a pet cemetery. She was also a piece of work, who was rumored to have killed several of her husbands. When it came Dorothy’s time to die, the body was found in Plaquemines Parish, the southernmost point of the Mississippi River. Corpses routinely turn up in the River there.
1001-1027 The walk today was cloudy. I did 44:00, with nuisance level dizziness. The show was The Pet Cemetery Murders: Part 2 on Gone South. The story of the Louisiana pet cemetery came to its homicidal conclusion. During a commercial break, a lady said “I only met Rick once, and he totally changed my life.” We were then invited to vote for Rick Jackson for Governor.
For more information on my walking habit, read The Path Journal. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Marion Post Wolcott took the social media picture in March 1940. “Hired helpresting after day’s work on Upwey horse farm, South Woodstock, Vermont”
©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah
Bill O’Reilly vs Jon Stewart
This content was posted October 22, 2014. … Bill O’Reilly recently appeared on a tv show hosted by Jon Stewart. BO was promoting a book. JS was trying to sell ads. They call it show business.
The alleged topic of discussion was the murky concept of white privilege. The Jew and the Irishman shouted over each other until it was time for a commercial break. Some people thought it was cool, while others were not so sure.
BO likes to whine about the “War on Christmas” every year. The solstice holiday should be about Jesus. Anyone who disagrees is a poopyhead. Does BO benefit from Christian Privilege?
An unintentionally ironic moment came when JS was reciting his white privilege talking points. “White people do more drugs in this country than black people but black people make up a far higher majority of drug arrests.” Holy meme, Batman.
The war on drugs hurts a lot of people. POC may indeed have it tougher than PWOC. The problem with racializing the war on drugs is that you tend to reinforce the status quo.
It is the old divide and conquer. Get the white people, and black people, fighting each other, and the government fucks everybody. If you make the war on drugs a race issue, you will divide the people. Instead of presenting a united front against the war on drugs, people are fighting over who is hurt by it more. The alcohol industry enjoys the spectacle.
Both BO and JS are employed by the corporate media. This industry is supported by advertising revenue, significantly from the alcohol industry. Those who sell adult beverages benefit from the war on drugs. The alcohol industry enjoys its legal monopoly. The alcohol industry, and alcohol users, enjoy legal privilege. The black people in prison are just a cost of doing business. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Dorothea Lange took the social media picture in November 1938. “Family of rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah
You Lie
This content was published September 10, 2009. … BHO made a speech about health care last night. At 24:03, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted “You Lie.” The President paused, said “that’s not true,” and continued with his address. In the show biz department, it was a landslide win for the President.
The comment before Mr. Wilson’s unveiling was a bit misleading. “The best example is the claim made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens.” Can we say strawman here? True, the Palins of the nation are just as misleading with the “death panel” talk. The comments by the President were show business politics as usual, not a change we can believe in.
A significant percentage of all health care spending is on terminal patients. Many feel that the emphasis should be on keeping people comfortable, rather than going for the expensive, painful miracle cure. This is just one of many sensitive priority issues that needs to be addressed.
The State is a South Carolina newspaper. As expected, they reported on this latest embarrassment to the state. They should have quit while they were ahead, after Miss Teenage South Carolina. One commenter makes an interesting point:
“We are missing something here. Joe Wilson shouts, “You lie!” and at that very instant, photographer Chip Somodevilla of Getty Images clicks the shutter. The image is clear, focused, well centered, perfectly timed. Of the hundreds of people in the chamber, why was Joe in Somodevilla’s crosshairs, unless the photographer knew what was coming! Was primed for it! Dialed in on Joe, waited for it — then, bingo! Immortalized the angry gesture that drove home those two angry words: the two words that effectively sabotaged press coverage of the entire speech.”
“The whole thing was a set-up! Joe’s emotions didn’t just “get the better of (him)” as he claimed! He is deliberately bringing tea-bag tactics into the legislative process!” Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Fritz Henle took the social media picture in November 1942. “Nurse training. At the ping pong table in the game room, Susan Petty, student nurse, enjoys a bit of relaxation after a busy day’s work in the wards.” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah
Full Moon Poems
Saturday night, I celebrated the full moon by reading five poems before an unsuspecting audience. This text today is accompanied by pictures from the graphic version of the poems. The titles below have a link embedded, so you can see the rest of the pictures. One poem, Bam Bam, does not have pictures yet. Bam Bam was my first hekaton, or one hundred syllable poem.
#whyiwasfiredfromwalmart
Wannaknow #whyiwasfiredfromwalmart, Rub Chocolate Pudding On Diaper Shelf
Attacked Customer With A Shopping Cart, Drew Hitler Mustache On The Christmas Elf
Paging “Mike Vick To The Pet Department”, Remote Control Fart Machine For Baked Beans
Testing Condoms Without Getting Consent, Put Cucumbers And Lube In Random Queens
Sacrifice Barbie Doll For Satan’s Glory, Count On Fingers Taking Inventory
Using Beer Cans For Curlers In My Hair, Polyester Camel Toe Savoir Faire
Greet People At Front By Flashing My Tits, Caterwauling All The Neil Diamond Hits
Bad Hygiene Tips Part One
bathe in swamp water for a youthful glow, lose your toothbrush? find a live weasel
go lick your vibrator clean tomorrow, dollar store cologne instead of diesel
smoke the breath mints in the urinal, floss is too flimsy try a razor blade
fill both sides of toilet paper y’all, lick bathroom floor at the colonnade
Bad Hygiene Tips Part Two
bug spray deodorant in a pinch, perfume covers republican stench
you never have to wipe a clean cut crap, if you piss in the sink with spinal tap
use meth to whiten and strengthen smile, kinky groovy sex at walmart lifestyle
Sonnet Number Two
bake brownies blow mud build a log cabin, bust a grumpie burn a mule blow ordure
code brown crap factory get happy win, lubrication defecation manure
discharge doo doo craptastic driver ball, drop kids off bomber pool hot honkey night
wolf bait trout duke it out go down the hall, dump trump wailin’ palin burger delight
deep fried twinkie luther burger breakfast, regurgitation free the turtle fast
expel shy hamster dumper diver lunch, grease the bowl grow a tail corpulent crunch
fly fecal matter effluent sinner, give birth to future state trooper dinner
Miss Dorothy
You Can Die Of Your Shame Or Live With Pride, Leviticus Abomination Decay
Miss Dorothy Is Always On Our Side, Take Off Your Seat Belt And Go For A Ride
Queer As A Crochet Bathtub Ballet, You Can Die Of Your Shame Or Live With Pride
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name Denied, Shouldn’t Talk With Your Mouth Full Anyway
Miss Dorothy Is Always On Our Side, Heteronormative Bonnie And Clyde
Just Too Lazy To Pray Away The Gay, You Can Die Of Your Shame Or Live With Pride
Give Me Librium Or Give Me Meth Outside, Gurl Didn’t Mean To Steal Your Hair Spray
Miss Dorothy Is Always On Our Side, Are You Doctor Jekyll Or Mister Hyde?
Madonna Plastic Surgery Buffet, You Can Die Of Your Shame Or Live With Pride
Miss Dorothy Is Always On Our Side
Boo Boo
Bam Bam Boo Boo Boogie Boner Blaster, Gomer Goober Gobble Sergeant Carter
Hair Pie Hoover Hooker Plaster Caster, Penis Pinga Pecker Packer Harder
Slick Willie Pick Monica Lewinsky, Salad Tossing Deep Throat Le Leche Leak
Blow By Blow Rusty Trombone Buttinsky, Slurp Spurt Spit Swallow Alabama Freak
Carpet Munching Sixty Nine Ratio, Slurping Gherkin Auto-Fellatio
©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah
Nothing
This content was published September 15, 2024. … Do nothing for as long as possible
This statement has two words ending in NG, long and nothing. NG words are challenging to spell backwards, as G is usually silent in front of N.
N and G are used to euphemize or represent. An example is N-word, aka America’s favorite dirty word. The less said about those six letters, the better.
G-word is sometimes used to represent God. Sometimes, one might want to refer to the concept of an almighty presence. Unfortunately, some people think they own God, and get angry if anyone disagrees. It can be very unpleasant for all involved.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media photograph in August 1940. “Members of FSA (Farm Security Administration) cooperative (Harper hay chopper). Box Elder County, Utah” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
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