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It is not everyday that a meme quote turns out to be legitimate. Today is that day. @angrywaterman.bsky.social posted a drawing of Benjamin Franklin, along with “Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.” When you type the phrase … you cannot copy text off an image … and feed this to google, you learn that Mr. Franklin wrote a letter to his sister Jane Mecom, on November 1, 1773. BF was in London on some business or another, and making people angry with his words. The revolution was coming, and BF was encouraging resistance to the empire.
“Maidencane” by Chad B. Anderson · A person … we never learn if they are male or female … has a troubling childhood memory. The incident was right before mother left, taking the older brother. The storyteller is left with his father, for the rest of a troubled childhood. One day, they get a phone call from brother, who remembers the seminal incident in a totally different way. Maybe they are just a fucked up person, who nonebody ever liked. This is the first story of a collection, which is going on the shelf until I finish the popular book I requested, that just came in.
Recycling blog posts is supposed to be a lazy option. I find a boring post with good pics … Confederate soldiers from the recent unpleasantness. Later, there was a book report about Janis Joplin. Most of the youtube links don’t work. One that does work is Janis telling Dick Cavett “I can tell you’re a swinger by those shoes” I click on a click to Peggy Caserta, and learn she has died. She also claims that “Going down with Janis” was ghost written trash. The only reason she went along was to fuel her heroin habit. I was disillusioned, again.
I was talking to someone hard of hearing. I said tariff. He thought I said terrorist. That may be a bit of cosmic confusion there. Tariffs are economic terrorism. Donnie’s slapdash tariff tossing on Canada and Mexico may have severe economic repercussions, which the orange haired wonder does not fully comprehend. Tarifs were a major cause of the War Between the States. The North wanted high tariffs to protect industry. The South wanted low tariffs to facilitate the sale of cotton to Europe. Of course, if you say that now you are condemned as defending slavery, but history does not …
One of the images I put up with my weekly notes had a silver dollar sized black spot on his forehead. Since this was a Confederate soldier from the recent unpleasantness, this black spot led to speculation. The identifier was googled on the appropriate Library of Congress page, and a raw copy of the photograph emerged. It was a formal portrait, seen here in a cardboard frame that was popular for such keepsakes. The soldier was no doubt alive when the portrait was made. Similar spots are seen elsewhere in the photograph, no doubt due to the ravages of age.
Is anything more boring than hypocrisy? It is obvious that it exists. The old story about the church, with room for one more hypocrite, is no doubt true. But so what? Just because you have strong opinions, and share them promiscuously with anyone within earshot, does not mean you have to actually do what you say you believe. You just have to say it with conviction, and people will congratulate you because you really believe it. Yes, the middle three letters of believe are lie. So much of our media meandering is pointing out examples of hypocrisy that prove nothing.
“It’s at the core of bullying, believing that your own rights prevail over others paid right to hear.” There is a conflict in the concept of free speech. Yes, you have a right to speak, but does that mean I have an obligation to listen? With canned entertainment available everywhere, many people feel it is their right to play their chosen sounds, regardless of other people. This extends to discussions of touchy subjects, like politics, religion, or God forbid, racism. Some people wield their opinions like a blunt object weapon, and if you do not submit to their authority …