Tusset Chronicles 010624
It is the anniversary of the january 6 incident. I was in limbo on 010621. The day before, I found a plumber to replace the water heater, without tearing up the wet closet floor. The next day, I had an appointment with a “genius” at the apple store to fix my Iphone7. On super wednesday, I was watching the action unfold on twitter. One comment was that this was what white supremacy looks like … POC would have been shot by the police. People on twitter make the dumbest comments.
I was looking at the weather report … a bit too late, as we will see later … when I found this item. A kid was killed by a gun that went off in the back seat of a vehicle. The incident took place on Shawn Wayne Court. It turns out I have been there before.
Between 1986 and 1998, Charles Emerson Hall, aka Crazy Owl, lived on a piece of property on Flat Shoals Road. Owl was squatting on the land, with the permission of the owner. There was no electricity, and the only water was a spigot in the front yard. The county made him get a green porta potty, which was dubbed the emerald city.
Owl was the proprietor of the School for Gentle Hands. He taught Chinese medicine. SFGH hosted a friday night sweat lodge, and other events. Eventually SFGH was no longer sustainable. Crazy Owl went to the sweat lodge in the sky April 4, 2011.
I was a regular at the friday night sweats, and a frequent visitor to SFGH. After Crazy Owl moved out, I was not in that area for many years. During this time, East Atlanta Village became a thriving operation, a mile east of SFGH on Flat Shoals Road. One time in 2010, I drove down Flat Shoals road. A cul-de-sac of townhouses occupied the former site of SFGH. That street was Shawn Wayne Court, the scene of the shooting last night.
Soon it was time take someone to the Marta station. When I got to the vehicle, I saw the windows were down. I did this yesterday to let fresh air into the vehicle. Unfortunately, I did not roll them back up later. This became an issue when it rained during the night. I had one job, and I messed it up. Pictures today from The Library of Congress.
Conversations I Am Tired Of Having
This is a repost from 2013. Privilege is no longer a popular topic, thank God. … There was a post a while back, 10 Conversations On Racism I’m Sick Of Having With White People. The original started at The Chronicle, but LiveJournal is LiveJoural, so a mirror image will have to do.
I got to thinking about “10 Conversations”, and a reply began to take shape. I started a list of conversations the I am tired of having, and before you could say toxic masculinity, there were a dozen items. Many of these incidents have involved people of color, or POC. Many others have not. Often, the ethnicity of the other person has little importance to the discussion. Therefore, the title of this feature will not be racially specific. This monolog will probably not go viral, or even bacterial. Washing your hands might be a good idea when you are finished reading.
Meetings where one person does all the talking The word conversation implies that more than one person says something. Often, this does not happen. One person will talk for a while. Before person two finishes a sentence, person one will interrupt them.
This does not work. When the other person is talking, listen. Don’t be thinking of your clever comeback, but pay attention to what the other person is saying. What the other person says is just as important as what you say.
Listening is not valued in our culture. It is seen as a loss of control, a sign of weakness. It is really a sign of strength. If you are weak, you don’t want to allow the other person to say anything. Have you ever heard anyone boast about the clever things that they say to someone? Of course you have, just like you never hear anyone talk highly about himself because he is a good listener.
My question is not an excuse to make a speech. Some people have an agenda. Whatever you say is an obstacle to the message they want to broadcast. When you ask a question, some people think you are handing them the talking stick, to do whatever they want. When your eyes glaze over, they plow on, in total disregard to your discomfort, and lack of comprehension. It is almost as if they are talking to hear the sound of their own voice.
I’m not talking to you. If you are screaming something, anyone with earshot can hear you. Do not get offended if there is a reaction to your words, especially if it is subtly directed at the person you are not talking to. This applies to the internet as well, where all of humanity is *privy* to your innermost thoughts. Keep the farmyard meaning of *privy* in mind when sharing your innermost product.
Conversations should be with people. If you are a business, and you want to tell me something, send me a written message. Please refrain from using robocall machines. I feel very foolish talking to a machine, especially one that doesn’t understand southern english.
You don’t have to shout. The amount of truth in a statement is not increased by the volume of expression. If you are standing next to me, the odds are I can hear you in a normal tone of voice. If you are across the room, come stand next to me, rather than shout across the room. If your normal tone of voice is shouting, then you have a problem.
The same principle goes to controlling your temper. When you choose not to control your temper, you show disrespect to yourself, and the person you are talking to. There is no situation that cannot be made worse by angry speech.
Privilege Racial polemic is getting more subtle these days. We are not quite post racial, although there are rumors of a PostRacial apartment community. The phrase that pays these days is Privilege. This is always something owned by the group you do not belong to. Last summer, I heard this quote in a discussion, and nearly fell out of my chair.
This is getting longer than the attention span of many readers. It might be continued at a later date. This is a repost. Pictures are from The Library of Congress.
M.K. Gandhi And Truth
I identify as human @pixfiber “Truth never damages a cause that is just.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi. This item appeared in my twitter feed on January 6. Being an unreconstructed pedant, I went to the Gandhi Wikiquote. “Truth” had too many search results, so I went to “just.” I found a doozy: “I have always held that social justice, even to the least and lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.” Harijan (20 April 1940) p. 97 This is a repost.
Harijan was another word for the untouchable caste in India. “… Gandhi conducted an intensive crusade against untouchability …” “Harijan was also a newspaper that started on 11 February 1933, brought out by Gandhi from Yerwada Jail during the British rule in India. Gandhi popularized the term Harijan across the states of India but he was not the first person to use it.”
Archive.org has much of Harijan available online, including the quote above. The quote is in a tsunami of text. Gandhiji was trained as a lawyer, and could crank out a word count. His positions are well thought out and complicated. This material is more complicated than the motivational Mahatma we are familiar with.
If don’t mind wading through a pile of results, a search for “truth” on the Gandhi Wikiquotes will yield some good thoughts. Bear in mind that these quotes are without context. If you are willing to do the work, and google the source, you might find that the meaning of these thoughts is different from what you might think. The first three quotes in this list are from An Autobiography Or The Story of My Experiments With Truth By: M. K. Gandhi.
“A man of truth must also be a man of care.” Part I, Chapter 5, At the High School
“But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.” Part II, Chapter 18, Colour Bar
“My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.” p. 453
“An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.” Young India 1924-1926 (1927), p. 1285 (context below)
“A seeker after Truth cannot afford to indulge in generalisation.”
“Generalisation”, Harijan (6 July 1940).
“If you want to give a message again to the West, it must be a message of ‘Love’, it must be a message of ‘Truth’. There must be a conquest — [audience claps] — please, please, please. That will interfere with my speech, and that will interfere with your understanding also. I want to capture your hearts and don’t want to receive your claps. Let your hearts clap in unison with what I’m saying, and I think, I shall have finished my work.”
Speech in New Delhi to the Inter-Asian Relations Conference (2 April 1947)
“Impure means result in an impure end… One cannot reach truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach Truth.” Harijan (13 July 1947) p. 232
“[Government] control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.” Delhi Diary (3 November 1947 entry)
“It is no use trying to fight these forces [of materialism] without giving up the idea of conversion, which I assure you is the deadliest poison which ever sapped the fountain of truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi The Collected Works Vol 46, p. 203
Wikiquotes has a lively section devoted to quotes that are Disputed and Misattributed. One Disputed entry is especially festive: “Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” “The earliest attribution of this to Gandhi … is in a T-shirt advertisement in Mother Jones, Vol. 8, No. 5 (June 1983), p. 46”
Several much loved Gandhisms have a shaky history. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” “An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.” “God has no religion.” “We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.”
Young India supplied one of the quotes above. Here is page 1285. “Some Posers: — ‘A well wisher’ sends these lines for my meditation: ‘The Bible can be read in 566 languages. In how many can the Upanishads and the Gita? How many leper asylums and institutions for the depressed and the distressed have the missionaries? How many have you?’ It is usual for me to receive such posers. ‘A well wisher’ deserves an answer, I have great regard for the missionaries for their zeal and self-sacrifice. But I have not hesitated to point out to them that both are often misplaced. What though the Bible were translated in every tongue in the world? Is a patent medicine better than the Upanishads for being advertised in more languages than the Upanishads? An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody will see it. The Bible was a greater power when the early fathers preached it than it is today. ‘A well wisher’ has little conception of the way truth works, if he thinks that the translation of the Bible in more languages than the Upanishads is any test of its superiority. Truth has to be lived if it is to fructify. But if it is any satisfaction to ‘A well wisher’ to have my answer I may gladly tell him that the Upanishads and the Gita have been translated into far fewer languages than the Bible. I have never been curious enough to know in how many languages they are translated.”
“As for the second question, too, I must own that the missionaries have founded many leper asylums and the like. I have founded none. But I stand unmoved. I am not competing with the missionaries or any body else in such matters. I am trying humbly to serve humanity as God leads me. The founding of leper asylums etc. is only one of the ways, and perhaps not the best, of serving humanity. But even such noble service loses much of its nobility when conversion is the motive behind it. That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. But let me not be misunderstood. The missionaries that selflessly work away in such asylums command my respect. I am ashamed to have to confess that Hindus have become so callous as to care little for the waifs and strays of India, let alone the world.”
Chamblee54 has written about M.K. Gandhi. one two three Pictures are from Library of Congress.
Harry Hay And Joe Pyne
Joe Pyne was a notoriously abrasive TV personality. He pioneered many of the things that today’s shock jock hosts do, before his death in 1970. One of his guests was Georgia Governor Lester Maddox. While writing a blog post about Lester, PG did a bit of research on Joe Pyne.
Wikipedia had an intriguing comment. “Gay activists Harry Hay and John Burnside—who were a couple from 1962 until Hay’s death in 2002—appeared on Pyne’s show in 1967.[citation needed]” Harry Hay is a seminal figure in certain “radical” communities. Mr. Hay had a sharp tongue, and might have given the combative Pyne a bit of pushback. PG decided to look for the video.
[citation needed] is the key phrase. Youtube has a few dozen videos of the Joe Pyne Show (links below.) None of the ones here include Harry Hay. The internet archive has a collection of Pyne tapes, but no Harry Hay. A google search provides many mentions of this interview, but no more details. Many of the references were apparently copied, verbatim, from Wikipedia.
There is a possibility that Harry Hay was never on the Joe Pyne show. There are other urban legends about Joe Pyne. The most famous involves Frank Zappa. It is helpful to know that Joe Pyne had a rare form of cancer in 1955, and part of his left leg was amputated. In the story, Mr. Pyne asks Mr. Zappa if his long hair makes him a girl. Mr. Zappa replied, does your wooden leg make you a table? No record of this exchange is available.
TV Party might have a reason for the missing video. “Most, if not all, of the syndicated Joe Pyne programs still exist on videotape in the archives of Hartwest Productions, Inc. Here’s what Hartwest tells us: “The tapes are 2″ Quads, meaning that they are so ancient that you only get one pass before the oxides flake off. That one pass is fine to make a new digital master, but the cost (including two digital clones) comes to about $600 a show. So far, we have only transferred three shows, with the cost being paid for by people who were either in the show, or who were making a documentary, or who now seem to worship one of the guests (and I mean the last literally).”
The research turned up another story. 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. This is a repost. Youtube has several videos from the Joe Pyne Show. There is a series, LOST JOE PYNE TALK SHOW PART 1 – PART 7 “This is from a 1967 kinescoped “demo reel”, used to sell “THE JOE PYNE SHOW” in syndication to local stations at the time.” 1 2 3 Helen Gurley Brown 4 5 7 Here are some other guests:
Amy White Fixler Christine Jorgensen Anton LaVey F. Lee Bailty
Godfrey Cambridge Lester Maddox Paul Krassner Jerry Rubin
Lewis Marvin Jack Anderson James Meredith Joel Fort M.D. Iceberg Slim
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Coleman Cruz Hughes is a young media star, with a book, a podcast, and numerous apperances on other shows. I was leery when Glenn Loury started to promote CCH. While I did not doubt the potential of young CCH, I was waiting for him to produce something. It did not help that the first time I heard CCH, he was talking about how nobody could believe a young black man was conservative. Later, CCH appeared on episode #1781 of Joe Rogan Experience, and made a good impression. For a while, CCH was ok in my book.
Then October 7 happened. CCH is on Israel’s side. Now, CCH is certainly entitled to his opinion. As for me, I am HORRIFIED by what Israel is doing in Gaza. The Hamas/IDF attack on October 7 does not begin to justify the wholesale slaughter of human beings perpetrated by Israel.
Part of the problem is a massive propaganda campaign by Israel. CCH is a soldier in this information war. @coldxman “These is not an Israeli gov claim, Aaron. I knew you would dismiss it if it were. These are claims made by The NY Times—which, for all its flaws—tends not to invent photographs out of whole cloth. I’ll let you parse the difference between rape and driving nails into a woman’s groin. I see no meaningful difference in the context of 10/7. In other words: Whatever it would say about Hamas that they did the former, it would say the same about them that they did the latter. And you seem equally tempted to deny it in either case.”
“How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7” is an exercise in atrocity porn. “Aaron” in the tweet above is Aaron Maté. @aaronjmate and @MaxBlumenthal are the co-hosts of the @TheGrayzoneNews, which has a highly credible debunking of the “nails into a woman’s groin” story. CCH feels that it is important to defend this story.
Legal Insurrection has some non-paywalled quotes from the NYT story. Some of it reads like a bad fiction. “The first victim she said she saw was a young woman with copper-color hair, blood running down her back, pants pushed down to her knees. One man pulled her by the hair and made her bend over. Another penetrated her, Sapir said, and every time she flinched, he plunged a knife into her back. She said she then watched another woman “shredded into pieces.” While one terrorist raped her, she said, another pulled out a box cutter and sliced off her breast. “One continues to rape her, and the other throws her breast to someone else, and they play with it, throw it, and it falls on the road.”
All this is going on during a battle. Hamas is trying to move in, take hostages, and get out as quickly as possible. NYT would have you believe that in a life or death battle, with IDF killing everything they see, Hamas militants are going to play bean bag with a breast.
This is not the first time that CCH has gone full blast for Israel. He writes for The Free Press, the outlet orchestrated by baking powder truther Bari Weiss. In one column, CCH makes the bold case that Israel is not an apartheid state. “A key difference between the nature of the Israeli-Arab conflict and South African apartheid is that Israeli policies in the occupied West Bank—checkpoints, movement restrictions, and so forth—are rooted in legitimate security concerns rather than racism.”
After reading a bit of the CCH tweetfight with @aaronjmate, I went to @coldxman. Normally, when you go to the home page of someone, you see a tab in the corner. This tab allows you to either follow, or unfollow. @coldxman … which @chamblee54 is following … has a purple tab, Subscribe. If you click on the tab, you see this: “Subscribe $7.00 a month Subscribe to Coleman Hughes Support your favorite people on X for bonus content and extra perks. … Welcome to Coleman Unfiltered Get bonus content when you sign up You will have access to ad-free episodes a week early and other exclusive bonus content. – @coldxman”
This is the first time I have seen the “Subscribe” option on Twitter. If I want to hear someone defend Israeli atrocity porn, I do not have to pay $7.00 a month. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress The spell check suggestion for coldxman is commando.
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When you download the non-primo version of the show, the file is 1:14:06. The last notes of the show music are heard at 1:09:22. This leaves 4:44 of dead air time, if you can tell the difference. ~ God is in the details. Banning “hate speech” sounds good in theory. In practice it is a mess. We do not have a clear consensus on what words are HS. The classic is the six letter racial slur. Will this word be off limits to everyone? Or will people who “have the right” to say the 6LRS be able to say it. There are two 6LRS in use today, and both could reasonably be called hate speech. One ends with R, the other begins with R. One I, as a european american, am forbidden to say. The other 6LRS I am forbidden to NOT say. The required 6LRS is racist. If you believe the people who say racists should be hated, you can say that racist is hate speech. ~ pics from the gsu library. The picture shown here is the Pig’N Whistle. PNW was located on Ponce de Leon Avenue, where the Krispy Kreme is today. ~ i create graphic poems. the text is the easy part. right now, i am at the stage of a project where i question everything about the universe, and my minuscule role in it ~ @HotepJesus Slavery was NOT the cause of the Civil War. It was the EXCUSE. The cause was the banking cartel plans for financial domination in the new colonies and the undoing of Andrew Jackson’s work to decentralize banking. ~ @HotepJesus had a few tweets today about the economic motives for the War Between the States. I wanted to send him this post. “… the value of slave property, some $4 billion, enormous amount of money in 1861, represented actually more money than the value of all of the industry and all of the railroads in the entire United States combined.”… I searched for this post using google, to no avail. I did the same search with duckduckgo, and it was the first result. ~ Most wartime rapes happen after the battle. Hamas/IDF were trying to do as much damage as possible, then get out fast. While a few rapes might have occurred, it is unlikely to be a pervasive policy. ~ @chamblee54 I am losing respect for @coldxman Most wartime rapes happen after the battle. Hamas/IDF were trying to do as much damage as possible, then get out fast. While rapes might have occurred, it DOES NOT justify what IDF has done to GAZA. This is a tragedy of historic proportions. ~ With public figures, you can ALWAYS find something written in the past that does not line up with something written in the present. Hypocrisy arguments are boring. ~ this is the last monday morning reader of 2023. The 1942 photograph is Japanese-American farm workers in Rupert ID. They were relocated there as part of the war effort. ~ Barbra Streisand Mel Tormé Liza Minnelli ~ This is a repost, with pictures from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. SFFILK, aka Michael Liebmann, passed away on July 26, 2016, due to complications from surgery. On June 5, 1999, Mel Tormé went to the chestnut roast in the sky. Frances Ethel Gumm met her maker June 22, 1969. ~ Mel Tormé wrote “The Christmas Song” on the hottest day of July, in 1945. Eighteen years later, he was the music director of “The Judy Garland Show.” The picture shown here is the Pig’N Whistle. PNW was located on Ponce de Leon Avenue, where the Krispy Kreme is today. ~ in 2013, after the Niners went to the Super Bowl, a restaurant in Turlock, CA, held a contest to name a hot dog in honor of the Niners young quarterback. “Kaepernick Special: Hot dog wins competition in Turlock” ~ Kenneth Anger croaked May 11, 2023. ~ Pictures are from The Library of Congress. ~ the yard sale perp asked, “how much is Hollywood Babylon worth?” “Judging by the amount of truth in it, about a nickel.” ~ Kenneth Anger , who died May 11, 2023, had the copyright for “Hollywood Babylon.” ~ fwiw Dr. Einstein pondered the God question from time to time. While video of Dr. Einstein does exist, there is little way of knowing whether students asked him about God, at every lecture. The facebook wisdom-fest does not offer a source, for Spinoza’s ideas about Mary’s babydaddy. I am not a Spinoza scholar, and quit reading the facebook post after a few sentences. I did look at a wikipedia page, and a document from Stanford University. A search was done for the phrase “God would say: Stop praying.” The terms “stop” and “pray” do not appear in either source. Instead of “do you believe in God”, the question could be “do you believe in a facebook meme?” ~ “Your post was removed due to low karma low account age.” Enforcement of LKLAA seems to be selective. Yesterday I had a comment offed. I commented on the poor battle performance of the IDF, and asked why Israel would want to expand the war. ~ This is a repost from 2021.. On March 30, 2023, the Tennessee Three staged a disruptive protest during a session of the Tennessee House. ~ Nikema Williams and Park Cannon were arrested inside the Georgia Capitol for disruptive protest. Stacey Abrams supporters prevented Stacey Evans from speaking at the Netroots convention. The Tennessee Three disrupted a session of the Tennessee house. All of these incidents display a lack of respect for democracy. ~ Most wartime rapes happen after the battle. Hamas/IDF were trying to do as much damage as possible, then get out fast. While a few rapes might have occurred, it is unlikely to be a pervasive policy. ~ was slavery the cause of the War Between the States, or the excuse? Most wars have economic causes. The leaders will tell the people something to get them worked up, then go count the money. A recent example of this is WMD and Operation Iraqi Freedom. ~ This was a repost from 2017. ~ Immigration is to Republicans what Racism is to Democrats. It is a free lunch issue. You can rabble-rouse to your heart’s content, knowing that there is nothing you can do about it. ~ “Keep thee from the evil woman” Proverbs 6:24 [720×447] ~ pictures today are from The Library of Congress ~ selah
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