Rachel Maddow On Gaza
This is a repost from 2023. Donald Trump survived nine years of hate speech from Rachel Maddow to win a decisive victory in the November election. The carnage in Gaza continues, and has spread to Lebanon and Syria. MSNBC is not doing well. … Rachel Anne Maddow is the personification of so much that is wrong about american media. Her polemic pushing is entertaining to millions of people. She does for the left what the blowdrys at Fox do for the right. It is the information equivalent of eating all your meals at Burger King.
UN calls Gaza destruction by Israel ‘tragedy of colossal proportions’ This feature will not look at the Palestinian horror from a perspective of Team Israel or Team Gaza. Instead, we will consider what Rachel Maddow, a media actor trusted by millions, says about the war in Gaza.
I am cable challenged, and do not watch MSNBC. Youtube is little help. I have decided to go to facebook, where The Rachel Maddow Show posts several times a day. I scrolled back to December 12, and did not see one comment about Gaza.
@maddow is not especially active on twitter these days. If you go back to November 4, she retweets a video of Barack Obama. To his credit, Barry uses the word listen, although not as much as talk. Most of Barry’s remarks were about the complexity of the Gaza story. This is similar to Donald Trump saying there are “very fine people, on both sides.”
RAM is also on Instagram, where she posts mostly head shots. It is tough to quickly tell what she is talking about. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress
UPDATE I stumbled onto a quote from RAM about Gaza. “you can’t say, it doesn’t matter what the truth is here” The quote is from October 17, “Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace react to the latest developments out of Gaza after the bombing of a hospital which has left hundreds dead.” 50 seconds after RAM says truth, Nicolle Wallace says “we … does not include Hamas terrorists. They don’t care what the truth is. … Hamas will use Palestinian civilians as human shields. Its what they do.”
Perfection
You didn’t grow up · adult duties how hard harsh · figure out feel you
It has been a great morning so far. It would be even better if I can get outside in that cold, wet, December air. Unfortunately, I need to finish writing this post.
ought perfection myth · ability just forgive · happiness toxic
WH Auden wrote a poem once. Epitaph on a tyrant started by saying “Perfection of a kind, was what he was after.” I know this poem because Tom Rapp based a song on it, Footnote. In the alternative version, “burst with laughter” became “laughed at his feet.” The latter version works much better for me, which tells us about the shortcomings of perfection.
mere players exit · Mewling puking whining creep · Mad bubble justice
This haiku had men in the first part, which gave it an extra beat. To make a proper haiku, the men had to go. This is an analogy of the role of gender in modern society. To fit into a formula, men have got to leave the picture. The 5-7-5 feng shui is more important than mere men.
aria talents · regard their crackpot fool who · rant their loyalty
The comparison of an aria … the showstopper solo in an opera … to the ravings of the common media myrmidon, endlessly braying about what their sponsors want to hear … can make the a crackpot fool seem like a prophet in his own land.
American rig · chic society edges · Republican smash
Rig is a word with many uses. Rig rhymes with the first syllable of popular six letter word, and is sometimes used as a euphemism. When chic society edges towards its Republican climax, powered by the American rig used to inject hard drugs into quivering veins, edging with delight at the anticipation of another fix of TRUTH, then one can only marvel at the spectacle.
sorry traveler · looked down under the other · grassy passing worn
Bobby Frost was lucky to be born when he was. He does not see one of his best lines corrupted by the fence building industry. He was a 20th century traveler, looking down from under the other, on his way to the grassy, passing knoll. The other is used to it.
L5PB December
The December Little 5 Poetry Bash was held in the doorway between Java Lords and 7 Stages. JL had festive lighting, and turned the performers red, blue, green, and white by turns. This was especially flattering for L5PB majordomo Han Vance, who was dressed like an Elf. Han read selections for a stack of chap books, and was highly entertaining. There is something about being in the same room as someone, and able to hear them clearly, that just adds to the enjoyment of the evening.
Mitchell Padgett was the feature, and read for a while. Since there were only a handful of poets, you could read as much as you wanted to. Mitchell later expressed disappointment at the sparse crowd, which I could only agree with. Performing for your own enjoyment has its limits.
As I said, it was a tiny crowd, consisting mostly of fellow performers. We did have a newcomer, Johanna Smith. It is always fun to have more people, and maybe it will happen next month.
L5PB is not without disappointments. On my last visit to the fabled JL bathroom, the thumb lock was stuck, and the door was jar for my last piss of the night. If I had to shit, it would have been show time. Or I could not shit, and go blind instead. Stevie Wonder does not recommend this option.
After finding my vehicle intact and unbooted, I made my way up to N. Highland. When I got to the exit for the Ex-Pres-way, I took a left. You only die once, and the potholes come faster on the freeway, instead of the agonizing death of a thousand jostles on Briarcliff Road. Meanwhile, I was button pushing on the radio, and found a new episode of Drabblecast. Strange stories, by Strange authors, for Strange listeners. Unfortunately, this was not one of their better episodes, and I turned to this month’s New Yorker fiction podcast, which sucked in it’s own NPR-listening way. Sometimes free downloads are worth what you pay for them.
The last disappointment came on the trip home. I cherish my L5PB junk food run, and could already taste the ambrosial mystery meat from Taco Bell. Unfortunately, this facility is now only open 9am – 3am on Sunday. I backtracked across North Druid Hills, with it’s Byzantine construction projects, to the Burger King, next to the Arthur M. Blank hospital. BK is part of the hospital supply chain.
Bastard Out of Carolina
This is a repost from 2018. Dorothy Allison passed away November 6, 2024. … Bastard Out of Carolina is a much praised novel. Dorothy Allison wrote it. When I saw it at a used book sale, I hesitated. The lady taking the money said, “if you don’t want that book, I will take it.” I went ahead and gave the lady one dollar, and took home BOOC.
Bone is the illegitimate hero of BOOC. Her birth certificate has ILLEGITIMATE stamped across the bottom, in “oversized red-inked block letters.” Anney, the mother, makes repeated visits to the county courthouse, trying to get the certificate de-bastardized. Finally, when Bone is 12, Anney succeeds. By then it is too late.
The Boatwrights are a large family. They live in Greenville, South Carolina. BOOC is set in the fifties. PG was never really sure how many aunts and uncles Bone has. Maybe that is the idea.
The characters in BOOC are what some people would call white trash. Money is always a problem. The men drink and fight. The women do what they can. The kids are kids, until it is their turn to get locked up, or knocked up.
After Anney has two girls, she meets Glen Waddell. He is the villain of BOOC. An all around fuck up, Daddy Glen sexually abuses Bone. This is only spelled out in two episodes. The verbal/physical abuse is there all the time.
An Essential Novel About Poverty, Bigotry, and Sexual Abuse, Twenty-Five Years Later is an article that googled its way into this book report. Some urban writers are fascinated by racism. Dorothy Allison keeps racism in its place. There are no black characters in BOOC. The Boatwrights say n****r. The reader comes to learn that the Boatwrights would have been just as poor, just as drunk, and just as trashy in an all white county. Whiteness is part of the story, just like the muddy river flowing past Aunt Raylene’s house.
BOOC has a lot of details, and atmosphere. In a radio interview, Dorothy Allison says something. “Oh, I want that — you know what Nabokov called it, that sob in the spine, that where you’re reading and suddenly it just stops you, and you’re like ah! That’s what I want. I want you to take a deep breath, and if I’m really lucky, I want you to throw the book at the wall.” Paperbacks do less damage.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the pictures in Missouri. The date was August, 1938.
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Mr. Crouch is a stonemason by profession and lives on his farm where a little farming is done.” Jack Delano took the photograph in November 1940. · Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer? Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours? They’re both dogs! If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests? If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from? Link in comments · ‘If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” This item turned up in a giftshop poster about cats. It was credited to/blamed on Mark Twain. A lady said, in the comments, this is one of my favorite quotes from Mark Twain. The Twain wikiquotes does not have an entry with deteriorate. There are five references to cat, all in a single quote from “A Tramp Abroad.” “You may say a cat uses good grammar. 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It was sunny when we started, but rapidly getting darker as we progressed. Taking pictures is too much work. · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress · selah
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Alan Burnett~Bill Gaddy~Bill Medlock~Bill Meneely~Blaze Mills~Buddy Conine
Calvin Bunn~Danny Fields~David Chewning~David Hadden~Charlie Hall~Dwight Dunaway
Freeman Waldrop~Gary Hunton~Gene Haynes~Gene Holloway~Gibson Higgins~Glenn Krause
Greg Scott~Harold King~Hawk~Jerry Pyschka~Jim Anderson~Jim Ferguson
Jim Woodward~Joe Kenney~Joe Vickery~John Kelley~John Harllee~Jon Gordon
King Thackston~Larry Jackson~Layton Gregory~Lee Mullis~Les Friessen
Mac Wilson~Manfred Ibis~Mark Keenum~Mark Rosen~Martin Isganitus
Michael Dollins~Micheal Mason~Mike Perling~Moon Moore~O’Gene Donohue
Purl Sudds~Ron Davis~Sam Mitchell~Skeeter Smith~Steve Bedworth~Stuart Davis
Ti Barfield~Tom Aderhold~Tom Selman~Tom Williams~Trion~Winston Morriss
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