Turn, Turn, Turn
This content was published November 5, 2023. … We are now in a time of war. One side is heavily armed, and slaughters unarmed women and children. The Prime Minister of the heavily armed country uses Ecclesiastes 3:8 to justify mass murder. … I recently published a poem, that includes the line “Ecclesiastical abomination.” When I wrote that, it was just a clever phrase, rhyming with cultural appropriation. In fact, I considered saying cultural abomination/Ecclesiastical appropriation. Now, Bibi Netanyahu has taught me the meaning of Ecclesiastical abomination.
The word Ecclesiastes has a poetic tingle. “Eccy” is in the Old Testament is between the poetry of Proverbs, and the enticements of the Song of Salomon. Richard Brautigan counted the punctuation marks in Ecclesiastes, and found no errors. Ecclesiastes 3 was even the lyrics for a top forty song.
Turn, Turn, Turn is taken almost verbatim from the book of Ecclesiastes. Pete Seeger wrote a melody, and added a line. “There is a time for peace, I swear it’s not too late”. TTT became a hit for the Byrds in 1965, as the escalation of the Vietnam war was in full bloom.
TTT is about the dualities of life, and how there is a place for all these things. When I was collecting rocks from destroyed houses, it was a time to gather stones together. TTT can serve as a companion to the vibrations of day to day living.
Pete Seeger died January 27, 2014. I first heard of him when he was on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. It was during Vietnam, and Mr. Seeger did “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy”. The CBS censors did not allow this the first time he appeared. Many thought Mr. Seeger was talking about Lyndon Johnson when he sang “The big fool said to push on”.
This content was published November 1, 2008. … After finishing breakfast, I made a pot of coffee and went to look at the battery. Prying the cover off with a screwdriver, I saw that there was almost no water inside. I went to the toolshed to get the distilled water, and saw the sun rising over the trees in the backyard. I put three cups of water in the battery, and tried to start the car. The car did not start, but did make more noise than it did last night.
Back to the dialog about war and peace. The only Tolstoy I had read was a short story about a man called Ivan Ilyitch. War and peace are two constants of man’s existence. There had been a feature about W&P in The Aquarian Drunkard. AD is a blog written by a former Dunwoody resident who now exists in LA. The feature focused on Pete Seeger, and the song “Turn, Turn, Turn”. …
I checked the fishwrapper to see when the Georgia Florida game began. While I was there, I looked in on his other alma mater, Cross Keys High School. CK is riding a 28 game losing streak. Halloween night, they lost to Greater Atlanta Christian 66-7. … This text is written like H. P. Lovecraft. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The social media picture is labeled Untitled. It is possibly related to a picture taken by John Vachon in March 1943. “Greenville, South Carolina. U.S. Highway 29 seen from an Associated Transport Company truck” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
The Message
This content was published November 13, 2o25. … The novel I am writing is now known as “The Confessions of Gnarlene Widget.” This is more commercial than “Novel with No Plot”. The role model is “Trout Fishing In America”. When I run out of things to say, I read a bit in TFIA, and am inspired. … The next chapter is a little story, that takes a little over two pages to tell. Some people were going camping, and looking for a good place. While on the road they pass a parade. The parade was a shepherd who looks like Adolph Hitler, only friendly. Following him were a thousand sheep, three horses, and a wagon. The sheep left organic souvenirs, lots of them.
The campers decided they didn’t like the first site, and went back up the road to another place, The sheep souvenirs were everywhere. Before long the parade was on the road again. They gave the Hitler look alike a beer for his trouble. Finally, the campers found an acceptable place to camp. They caught some trout that looked like leaves for dinner. … As I type this, the computer music player has a concert by Roger Waters playing. The song on the machine now is “Sheep”. Mr. Waters used to be a key member of Pink Floyd, but had issues with some of the others.
They went on without him, and even did a stadium tour under the PF name. The keyboard player recently passed away. He was friendly with Mr. Waters, who reportedly did not like onstage improvisation. I found the playing of “Sheep” at this moment to be an incident of synchronicity and simultaneity. … Back to the story in TFIA. The campers had a happy camper night in the acceptable place, and looked down the valley to see the sheep, the shepherd that looked like Hitler, and the wagon. … Under the borco bookmark, across the page from the first part of this story … Which was titled “the message”… is a yellowed newspaper clipping.
The clipping was written by the Associated Press, and was on page 3a of The Atlanta Constitution, Fri. Oct. 26, 1984. The Headline reads ”Novelist Brautigan found dead in home”. The 49 year old author had found life to be troubling, and ended it with a gunshot wound. There was a quote from Tom McGuane …”When the sixties ended, he was the baby thrown out with the bathwater”. Sometimes it is best to enjoy the product of a craftsman, and not use his life as an example.
The other side of the piece of yellowed newsprint is a picture of a whiskey bottle. The paper around the neck of the bottle says Canadian Mist. It must be from the english speaking part, or it would be spelled Canadien. Under the brand name, in fancy letters, it says Eighty Proof. The bottle is lit from the left side, with a bit of a crest visible atop the storage part of the bottle. A four legged animal is standing guard for a coat of arms. Under the watchful animal, The word IMPORTED is in all caps, in the same font as Canadian Mist. The word Canada is in little letters below that, just above the place where scissors separated the clipping from the rest of page 3a.
The message in the title of the sheep/Hitler lookalike story has a meaning. The camper received a one word message that night. The word was Stalingrad. … In 2008, I decided to participate in Nanowrimo Today’s text is a sample of the result. The goal of NW is to write a 50k word novel in one month. NW tells you to write first, and edit later. The result, at least for me, was a pile of unreadable junk. Stream of consciousness is more fun to write than it is to read. … The perps pulled the plug on Nanowrimo in 2025. There were reports of AI issues and content verification concerns. Whatever … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Jack Delano took the social media picture in July 1941. “At the entrance to the airport. Washington, D.C. municipal airport” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
Erick Erickson Wants Donations
This content was posted July 9, 2015. … @EWErickson Trump’s rise is part of the unintended consequences of the GOP trying to compress the Presidential primary cycle. This message was retweeted. Blue Gal/Fran! Excuse me I gotta go buy more popcorn. (The spell check suggestion for retweeted is regretted.)
Erick Erickson is a piece of work. He is the grand wazoo at Red State, a “conservative” web site. RS gave Chamblee54 a 601 Database redigestation error onetime. This required a visit to the computer shop to get the malicious code off the machine.
Today’s tweet linked to a post at Mr. Erickson’s current blog, Stop Complaining About Donald Trump. If you want to see it, you can follow the link. This post is not going to concern itself with “conservative” commentary about the latest golden boy of the wig party.
The last five words of the post are “think of another “F” word.” Below that, you are encouraged to “Support the work at Erick on the Radio.” You can “Select an Amount” and click “Next.” At this point credit card numbers become involved. Never give a credit card number to someone who has given your computer malicious code. UPDATE: This request is not on the Internet Archive version.
Erick Erickson has a daily radio show on WSB. This is a 50,000 watt clear channel am station. WSB is part of the Cox media team that dominates Atlanta. His show is sponsored by advertising, and is probably a profit center for the Cox bean counters.
Why does Erick Erickson feel the need to ask for donations on the Internet? Is the free market model of talk radio not working for him? Apparently not. … Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken in 1951. “Peachtree Street and Ellis Street” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
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This is your weekly reader for this cold monday morning. The title is from one of the links, “My Roots are Rambling“: A Portrait of Touching Up Our Roots Co-Founder Dave Hayward.” Dave’s time on planet earth ended last week. He will be missed. · In the Chamblee gulch, between the Walmart and the Waffle House, there is a broken wooden deck. A heavy equipment laden truck drove off the concrete sidewalk, and onto the deck. It did not end well · My psycho rapist · story ordinary wise · red meals memories — genetic users · glorification whiteness · “male gaze” end result — pathetic bigot · they never learn from teaching · corrosive ally — “Acceptable Gays” · closet drag queen punishment · “ideology” — iconic again! · perform inimitable · propulsive memoir — Nobody Donald · embarrass mental public · Republicans bad · This incident is fishy 1 The assailant was in the back of the crowd, well out of coin throwing range. I did not see any coin throwing in the video. 2 The mug shot does not indicate what police force took it. 3 Portnoy is a shady character. I don’t put it past him to stage this. · the best meditation is when the bell rings what you are not ready to stop. … tonight it was loving kindness meditation. It started with Ross … My pen ran out of ink. there was a a joke ontime about a girl named Virginia. She named her per pig ink, because it ran out of the pen … back to meditation. I took a breath, and said ” I want ____ to be” and then I took another breath to say happy/healthy/prosperous/safe. … I get through Ross, and then the lady whose name I don’t know. Then I got to Andy, who taught me the concept of LKM. I wanted Andy to be happy, and the bell rang. … My bring from home tea is some cheap herbal concoction from Ollies … The pen was a silver pen with the Coca Cola logo on the side. I like it because it has a rubber button on the end, which is good for using on a phone. I was at a yard sale, when a jar full of these pens were on the free stuff table. I grabbed a handful. I will sontinue to be on the lookout for telephone enabled pens. · Today’s production is a rerun of a 2022 writing prompt. The picture below is one of the earliest pictures made of the carving on Stone Mountain · He was not pleased by the invention of writing. “You provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. … they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.” · This podcast is about a subculture of “gooning”. It is young men who masturbate for several hours every day trying to achieve an altered state. They are pornosexuals · In 2012, someone posted some thoughts about the correct way to be anti-racist. I decided that this was a boring conversation to have · Plenty serious · anonymous no impact · regulate emo — cat universal · rat fundamentalism · (apartheid) the end — QUIT TRYING TO RAP · DUPE HIGHLY INSIDIOUS · TECHNO BRAINWASHING! — HUMILITY VICE · MUMBO-JUMBO TEDIOUS · MR. NATURAL!! — REPLICATE ANAL · PAVLOVIAN PHEROMONES · FORGIVING VISIONS — suicidal doll · two-spirit resurrection · we were killing God · In 2008, East Atlanta was not very big. It could be covered on foot in a few minutes. There were plenty of unused buildings, and former parking lots with a fence in front. The transitionality of the neighborhood was a work in progress · “So many health risks never doscussed.” It is politically incorrect to talk about the downside of transition. As far back as the seventies, I was hearing about trans women getting strange diseases from all the drugs they take, both gender corrective and recreational. · the ripple effect of a small act, a pebble setting off a landslide, political comment said without tact, existential thermonuclear omnicide · the twitter commentary of the hotep groyper, said without penalty from hotep jesus, elon’s kingdom for the digital loiter, with the porno players there to please us · two weeks ago teresa forgot to post the show, manley pointer had to trust eventbrite, i will never try those guys no more, the opening chat is always a sweet sight, · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress Russell Lee took the social media picture in April 1941. “The movies are popular in the Negro section of Chicago, Illinois” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
Charisma Lessons
This content was published November 19, 2008. … Last friday night, The Justice House of Prayer went to Castro Street in San Francisco. They do this on a lot of friday nights. They will sing and play guitar, and sometimes they will preach. They are “Christianists”. … Last friday night was not an ordinary friday night. Ten days earlier, the voters of California voted to pass Proposition 8, which bans same sex marriage. The people on Castro Street were angry. The message of JHOP was seen as a provocation. A mob developed, and the police had to escort the JHOP to their vehicles.
There is plenty of blame to go around for this ugly incident. The video shows the police leading some people away from an angry mob. It makes the mob look ugly, and indeed there seems to be excessive reaction here. … But what about the JHOP? They knew what they were getting into. Were they looking to create Goodwill for Jesus, or were they looking to pick a fight? Why couldn’t they just take a couple of weeks off until the passions over Prop 8 cool off?
What does this say about Jesus? Anyone can read from the bible. Anyone can talk about Jesus. There needs to be trust for the person listening to the message to believe what the preachers are saying. JHOP seems to have forgotten this essential first step. They seem to be looking for a confrontation. … Jesus worship is often seen … with a lot of justification … as preaching hatred against gay people. Many of the Castro residents have struggled with Jesus worship, and come to the painful decision that they simply don’t agree with it. Others agree, but want to live the way God made them.
There are all sorts of ways to take this message, and many of them cause pain for the people being preached to. For a group of people to come into someone’s home and preach a painful religious message … without gaining the trust of these people…it just isn’t right. It does not speak well for Jesus. … When you preach to people without their trust, you speak in vain. When you do so out of lust for confrontation, you speak in vain. When your preaching causes pain to people, you speak in vain. … The third commandment speaks to this…”exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”
This content was published November 16, 2008. … At about 1:30, PG called Uzi, and said to meet behind the waffle house. Today, the sunday walk was going to be in East Atlanta …. PG was true to form in making a wrong turn on the freeway, forcing a drive down Spring Street to North Avenue. There was little traffic, and soon the men were on Moreland, crossing I 20, and making that weird turn off Moreland onto Flat Shoals. … The East Atlanta shopping district is not very big. It can be covered on foot in a few minutes. There are plenty of unused buildings, and former parking lots with a fence in front. The transitionality of the neighborhood is a work in progress.
There are plenty of places to get a drink in East Atlanta. While PG was taking pictures of graffiti on the side of the Earl, Uzi said that he never did care to be in a bar on Sunday afternoon. PG thought back to his drinking days, and agreed. Sundays are for riding bikes, hiking, watching football, not cigarette smoking drunks. … On the way back to the car, Uzi saw a tree stump in a vacant lot. He decided to count the rings on the stump. By his reckoning, the tree was 130 years old when it was murdered. There was some serious fighting in this area during the War between the States. This would have been 144 years ago, or before the tree was planted.
There was once a band leader on the Tonight show named Tommy Newsom. Johnny Carson had reports of Mr. Newsom going to Central Park, and taking charisma lessons from a tree stump. The stump in East Atlanta is utterly lacking in charisma. Reports of local musicians taking charisma lessons from this tree stump are not to be believed. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Howard Liberman took the social media picture in September 1942. “Gloucester, Massachusetts. A vessel unloading fish. The man at the “niggerhead” with a rope is controlling the canvas basket that brings fish up from the hold” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
Are My Racial Attitudes Your Business?
I was living my life when I saw something on facebook: “And another thing: if you are going to claim NOT to be racist, I feel like you should familiarize yourself with some contemporary writings and definitions of racism, not just what Mirriam Webster says.” The first reaction was to ignore this. If you reply to a comment about racism on facebook, you are asking for trouble. Life is too short to be wasting time on such unpleasantness.
But the thought engine had been kickstarted, and continued to idle in the background. When I pulled into the Kroger parking lot, the idea hit full force. Maybe it is none of your business.
Some people say that white people are not affected by racism. If this is the case, then why should the racial attitudes of a white person affect another white person? If a person treats you fairly, do you really need to know this person’s attitudes about race?
The fbf ex-fbf does not say what the context of this claim is. Did anyone ask you whether or not you were a racist? If not, are you assuming that they are interested? Maybe someone assumed the listener was interested. Maybe the proper response to look bored, and say TMI.
The comment mentioned “contemporary writings and definitions of racism.” Who are the people who set themselves up as arbiters about what we should think about race? What are the qualifications? Who asked them what they thought? How do we know that these people are dependable?.
Maybe the answer is to show compassion and kindness to your neighbor, and don’t worry about their racial attitudes. If you are proud of your racial attitudes, please refrain from boasting. Not everyone is interested. … This commentary was originally posted November 1, 2012. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Jack Delano took the social media picture in November 1941. “Mr. Parkie Armour, FSA borrower, Edonton Road, Greene County, Georgia” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
Did Socrates Read And Write?
This content was posted November 21, 2024. … This story starts with a facebook meme. A fbf posted a picture of a thoughtful statue. The text read ‘When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.’ Socrates. I thought that Socrates never wrote anything that survived. All of what we attribute to Socrates was written by Plato. People reading this blog should know what happened next.
Did Socrates Say Slander Is ‘The Tool of the Losers”? is one of several results. They all said the same thing … the quote is bogus. A tweet from Eric Trump is not evidence of authenticity.
I began to think, which is never a good sign. Was Socrates able to read and write? was on the screen a few minutes later. The speculation is mixed. Some say that that Socrates was stone illiterate.
Thomas Musselman “Socrates served in the government on juries. Historians now know that legal proceedings were common over business matters of great sophistication and that the juries were well-educated concerning such matters. General literacy existed by the late 400s BC for the general public in primary school. Upper class males even in Socrates’ day would have been literate and there was an active book-seller market. To function in the world that Socrates functioned in required literacy.”
Google turned up a curious document. It is a passage written by Plato, “Phaedrus.” Pp. 551-552 in Compete Works. An Egyptian God is talking to a King, about an invention … writing.
“In fact, it (writing) will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.”
SOCRATES: “But, my friend, the priests of the temple of Zeus at Dodona say that the first prophecies were the words of an oak. Everyone who lived at that time, not being as wise as you young ones are today, found it rewarding enough in their simplicity to listen to an oak or even a stone, so long as it was telling the truth, while it seems to make a difference to you, Phaedrus, who is speaking and where he comes from. Why, though, don’t you just consider whether what he says is right or wrong?” … Pictures for our Chautauqua are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media picture in April 1941. “ “Storefront” Baptist church during services on Easter morning. Chicago, Illinois” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
If I Had A Hammer
This content was published November 1, 2022. … @itstimetowrite “#writingprompt Pick 3 objects around you at random. The first item is a character’s portal, the other their prize, the last is their crutch. Interpret this, figuratively or literally, into the genre of your choice. #amwriting #writingcommmunity” The first object that I picked up was an orange. It was sitting on the desk. Since I was going to eat the orange, I substituted a paper clip. Since the instructions say “around you,” the many promising items on the desk will be ignored.
I turn 270 degrees, and finds a “QUICK START GUIDE” on the shelf. It is a booklet, 2″ x 5″, with basic instructions for JBL TUNE 215 TWS ear buds. This has sat on the shelf since the device was purchased, and will probably be discarded once this exercise is complete.
The utility shelf on the wall behind me is the next stop. A tube of equate athlete’s foot cream cream is chosen. 95% of the product has been removed from the container. A flat object has rubbed the side of the tube, driving the remaining Clotrimazole in the direction of the dispensing orifice. It is not known how many more applications of the prophylactic compound remain in the tube.
The character today is Paulie DePape, a California hammer enthusiast. Paulie was so excited about his latest purchase that he went to see his mentor. Unfortunately, it was 2:30 am, and the mentor was busy putting his cell phone in the bathroom to charge. Paulie tried to get into the San Francisco mansion, using the paper clip as a portal. It did not work, and Paulie broke into the residence with his new hammer. The new device was magical indeed … when Paulie broke the laminated glass on the back door, the glass fell back on the patio.
Paulie looked in his pockets, and found the “QUICK START GUIDE.” In his hammer-headed state of mind, Paulie opened the QSG, and realized that he already knew what it said. He turned the QSG over, and saw the fine print instructions in a variety of exotic languages. This was not much of a prize. Paulie held his mentor’s domineering wife responsible. Paulie grabbed his hammer, screamed “Where’s Nancy,” and ran up the stairs.
At this point, Paulie tripped over his hammer, and injured his leg. He would need a crutch to complete his mission, but all he had was an 95% empty tube of Walmart Athlete’s foot goo. Paulie quickly realized that the tube would be useless as a crutch.
By this time, the police had been notified. The mentor answered the door, and then tried to grab the hammer away from Paulie. He was very proud of his new hammer, and angry at Nancy for giving him a QSG as a prize. Paulie snatched the hammer away, and proceeded to brain the mentor. The police interrupted this procedure, and took Paulie into custody.
Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library The social media picture: “Print made in the 1960s by the Lane Brothers of a photographic image of Stone Mountain, showing an early version of Robert E. Lee’s head (with hat) — probably the initial carving by Gutzon Borglum. Borglum’s work was destroyed after he left the project in 1923. Stamp on reverse of print is later Lane Brothers stamp: “Lane Bros. Photographers, 241 Peachtree-Arcade Bldg., Atlanta, Ga., MU. 8-2513.” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
Are Conservatives Patriotic?
This content was published November 26, 2008. … JoeMyGod posted a story yesterday where he poo pooed the controversy about BHO’s birth certificate. A site called Free Republic critiqued his story. When FR did so, they listed keywords in the story. The keywords they listed were: antichristian; bigot; birthcertificate; celebratesin; certifigate; conspiracytheory; crackpot; dnctalkingpoints; gaystapotactics; hedonist; homosexualagenda; ifitfeelsgooddohim; larrysinclairslover; lavendermafia; liberalbigot; missingbirthcert; moonbat; obama; religiousintolerance; sodomite; woowoo.
That’s quite a collection. When I went to FreeRepublic to see for myself, the site was down. There is something called a 502 proxy error in the works now. Or maybe the thesaurus at Free Republic went into hyperdrive, and took down the site. … Free Republic is back up now. Maybe this was a coincidence. This post had 64 comments when I looked through. Many of them are wigged out about the word “christianist”. Very few of these people call a student of Buddha a Buddhian.
On a lighter note, it seems like the right wing is not giving up the fight. They seem determined to make as much trouble for BHO as they can. This is consistent with the reception the Clintons got in 1993. … BHO is going to have his hands full when he comes into office. The patriotic thing to do would be to support him, and try to help solve some of the problems he is going to be facing. The right wing seems determined to look for anything they can to fuss about. I question the patriotism of people who would undermine the president like that.
2025 UPDATE: BHO served two full terms as POTUS. BHO was a controversial figure, who did as much good as he did harm. Much of the harm he did is bearing fruit now, particularly in foreign affairs. The dirty war in Syria, the Saudi-Yemeni war, the Maidan revolution are just a few examples. The current POTUS got a lot of attention by questioning the authenticity of BHO’s birth certificate. When it became politically productive to call DJT “racist”, “birtherism” was given as an example.
JoeMyGod is still published several times a day. The site has several popup ads, though not as many as most websites. Most current JMG posts are hyper-critical of DJT. The latest post is Duffy Threatens To Fire Air Traffic Controllers. The most recent JMG post about the tragedy in Gaza is Trump Formally Petitions Israel To Pardon Netanyahu.
Free Republic is still being published. The current site looks very much like it did in 2008, and has almost no popup ads. The latest post is Florida 15-year-old charged with felony after attacking cop car with shovel: ‘Are you kidding me?’ The most recent FR post about the tragedy in Gaza is Israel offers: Hamas terrorists in Rafah tunnels can surrender and be freed. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media picture in November 1937. “Mr. Bertelson, farmer near Antelope, Montana. One of the old-timers and homesteaders.” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
My Psycho Rapist
My psycho rapist · story ordinary wise · red meals memories
Everybody has their story, and psycho rapists are no different. People say psycho as though it were a bad thing, when in reality it is so common as to be boring. Consenting psychos are somewhat annoying, since they share the blame with the other party. Maybe using Y as a verb is the key to the psycho dilemma. Y is a peculiar letter, in that Y is both consonant and verb. Add a Y to cringe and you get cringy, which is auto-reflexive … a word that describes itself. Some say that this fascination with word structure is a …
genetic users · glorification whiteness · “male gaze” end result
Whiteness Glorification is a colorful problem. Only a few fringe weirdos actually celebrate lack of pigmentation. They are best ignored. Most white people just accept things the way they are, and move on to other concerns. Which leaves us with the people who worry about WG. Many unscrupulous people find it to their advantage to “call out racism” wherever they see it. Part of this process is convincing other people that their racial attitudes are not good enough. These opinion mongers seem to think that you are as worried about color as they are. It is not black and white.
pathetic bigot · they never learn from teaching · corrosive ally
A problem with Hasbara is how stupid it is. It is the least funny material since the resistance to Donnie’s first term. A person on X asked the other day if somebody was really Jewish. Many of the best entertainers have been Jews. They got that way by being funny. Many of the people promoting Israel’s war of Palestinian elimination have been painful to listen to. They say things that nobody believes outside of their own cult. A google search for “bad hasbara” produced a podcast: Bad Hasbara – The World’s Most Moral Podcast · this is a podcast about lies.
“Acceptable Gays” · closet drag queen punishment · “ideology”
There is an abandoned rail line in Chamblee GA, between the Walmart and the Waffle House. It goes through a tunnel under Peachtree Industrial Boulevard, and fed supplies to the Frito-Lay plant for many years. It is now a trail, and there is a wooden boardwalk. Recently, a bucket truck drove off the concrete sidewalk, and onto the wooden deck. The wooden boards did not support the weight of the truck, and it crashed through. The area will be closed off until further notice. Many people on facebook are wondering why the truck decided to drive onto the wooden deck.
iconic again! · perform inimitable · propulsive memoir
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore has been on my radar for about 17 years. At first, she was collating a collection of radical faerie writers. MBS … those initials sound like either a disease or a graduate degree … had a blog in those days. I sent her a picture one time, of an outlaw mural behind the Waffle House, near where the bucket truck broke the wooden deck. Some artist spray painted the word WEIRDO on a retaining wall, I sent the picture to MBS, and she commented “Weirdo!” She is now promoting a book, which led to this haiku reduction.
Nobody Donald · embarrass mental public · Republicans bad
President Donald is a tertiary embarrassment to the mental public. Mental is used in much the same way as psycho, without the questionable Y. It is beyond obvious that the current regime is a disaster, but may in fact be better than whatever the democrats would offer. Lord knows Hillary would have sucked, would have been blamed for COVID, and probably have gotten us into a war with Iran that would have lasted more than 12 days. Kamala is even worse, and since she is 44% Jamaican Black it would have been racist to object to anything she would do.
My Roots Are Rambling
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This is your monday morning reader for this week. “ego, pride, and hubris, reasonable refutation or intelligent counter-argument, denial, deflection, IMAX-level projection, censorship, manipulation, smearing, gaslighting, ad hominem, etc.” Timothy Klaver · Attn. .@ComicDaveSmith .@martyrmade .@scotthortonshow Please quit saying “the great” about people that you like. It is highly annoying. · With AI, you will no longer need a human to produce bad faith rhetoric. “AGW (anthropogenic global warming) is about raising taxes; … about a few canny hucksters who’ve leapt on the bandwagon fleecing us rotten with their taxpayer subsidised windfarms · There is a festive video making the rounds. @oxMichelangelo asked “@grok what is this? “… @grok “This is footage of an enthusiastic voting rally in New York City, featuring a diverse crowd—mostly working-class men—dancing and chanting “We’re gonna vote vote vote” in a hall adorned with NYC election stickers. It captures high-energy civic hype, likely for early or election-day turnout, set to a rhythmic, motivational remix encouraging participation. The post praises NYC for leading in voter engagement.” … Not all observers were as positive. … @ada_lluch “Low testosterone in men is an epidemic that should be addressed very seriously. No woman wants a boyfriend like this. Yet alone a father for their kids. Men the fuck up.” … Readers added context they thought people might want to know · “This video depicts the New York City Gay Men’s Choir. The members are most likely not interested in obtaining girlfriends.” · When I was writing my birthday tribute to Joni Mitchell, I wondered what brand of cigarettes she smoked. Google’s AI overview said it was American Spirit, which came on the market in 1982. Before that, Joni liked her Camels · A matter of time becomes a heartbeat · The headline of the link to the show said 11-2, and my heartbeat slowed down. Then I looked in the fine print, and it said the show was 11-9. that is the opposite of the usual scenario. usually the large print giveth, and the small print taketh away, but tonight it was different. this is the time of falling leaves. there is a black walnut across the street, in front of the county land where i am the volunteer caregiver. the black walnut fruit has finished its reign of terror, with no know casualties. I got hit on the shoulder a couple of years ago, and know to take those things seriously. today, it is the yellow leaves falling like rain. i raked in front of the curb yesterday, and took two barrels of leaves to the mulch pile in the back yard. this morning there were more leaves than the day before, and no indication of what the cold wind will bring tomorrow. meanwhile, my heart keeps plodding along. This time last year i was waiting to go downtown, and have some fancy tests run on my ticker. those tests told me to have a heart catheterization, which turned out to be a big nothing, except an excuse to send bills to medicare, which might have been the true motive all along. getting back to tonight, i am delighted to be here. two weeks ago the evil tagteam of zoom and eventbrite conspired to keep me out of the loop. one week ago i remembered at quarter to nine that there had been a java event that i forgot. this week the zoom gods are smiling on me, and i am here · Pictures today are from The Library of Congress Arthur Rothstein took the social media picture in November 1939. ” Evicted sharecropper’s child eating orange from F.S.C.C supply. Butler County, Missouri” ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
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It is another Sunday morning. Wake up and live. After I get moving, I look for something to put on my blog. The idea is to do as little work as possible. This is the guiding principle of the universe … nature will find a way to do a chore with as little effort as possible. With the blog, enlightened laziness means an archive post with few links. Many of these links need to be revived using the internet archive. This process is painfully close to being work.
This is November, which means 30 days of dead. Somebody puts up a Grateful Dead download every day in November. For years I faithfully downloaded every one, only to realize that a substantial percentage were crap. This is the dirty truth about the GD. For all the ethereal vibes, there is a lot of boring crap. … I listened to deadhead babbling before I got to see them. That night at the Omni was late 1973, post PigPen, definitely after the glory days of the band. Of course, I kept trying.
Truckin’ – New Speedway Boogie is the TDOD offering for today, and it sucks. Which is a shame. I like those two songs. A love song for the Altamont concert, what’s not to like? Still, this rendition is clearly from the later days of the band, and just doesn’t have the Jerry juice that the faithful demand. I was going to say that Deadheads live for, but that wouldn’t have made any sense.
The GD were originally the Warlocks, but had to change it because of someone else using the name. It is one to the freakydeaky parts of rock mythology that Lou Reed was also calling his band the Warlocks, and had to rebrand. What if Pigpen had come to rehearsal with an S&M novel, and decided to call his band the Velvet Underground? Or Andy Warhol saw the future of hard drugs, and decided to call his band the Great Dead Junkies. We will just never know.
Three posts from the November archive were considered today. Thanksgiving Letter is from Margaret and Helen. They were a blog sensation in 2005 … these old ladies from Texas who sent folksy posts about their liberal politics and bacon grease. The last M&H post was October 2024, JD Vance thinks bullet proof glass will abortion proof our vaginas.
In 2016, there was a lot of noise being made about Donald J. Trump. While some of it was true, a great deal of it was total nonsense. There was this tsunami of negativity about the orange haired wonder. After a while, it got tough to tell what was true, what was true but you gotta understand, and what was total bullshit. Then I came across one item that was easy to debunk, but which was widely believed by the Hillary Happy Public. This item was the notion that DJT was endorsed by the KKK.
Of course DJT won the election, and America melted down. The various media actors were lamenting the normalization of caucasian stupidity supremacy. One episode in our national reality show was an article in the New York Times about a man in Ohio named Tony Hovater. He enjoyed being white entirely too much. It is only the last part of the second article that I saw the missing piece of the puzzle. Mr. Hovater ranting about the federal reserve. I realized that this was not a threat to america. Instead, this was the guy in the break room who will not shut up and get to work.
The pearl clutchers said that the NYT took what was dangerous and made it seem normal. This put the future of democracy at risk. The truth was the opposite. Tony Hovater is normal and boring, and the NYT tried to make him look exotic and dangerous. … Mr. Hovater seems to have faded into the background. You have to set google search for the last year to find anything. The ADL takes a break from normalizing genocide, to profiling a whiteboy group that Mr. Hovator was connected to. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media picture in October 1940. “ Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family, Pie Town, New Mexico … Photograph shows Jack Whinery (1907-1994) with his wife Edith and their five children, Wanda, Edith, Velva, Jack and Lawrence in his father’s lap. ©Luther Mckinnon 2025 · selah
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