Gaza 2010
This content was originally published June 1, 2010. … There is a lot of talk now about the flotilla to Gaza. Here is more. · A lot of the pro Israel talkers use the terms Hamas and Gaza interchangeably. This is not accurate. The territory and people are Gaza. There is a political party called Hamas, that is currently in control of the territory. Food and construction supplies for the people are not the same as weapons for Hamas. · Hamas won an election in Gaza. When you have elections, your neighbors might not like who won. Your neighbor might impose an embargo …
… control access to your territory, or attack you with depleted uranium and white phosphorus. · This quote catches the eye. “The Israeli (and I am hesitant to say “IDF” here–it lets too many politicians off the hook) media spin machine was ready to go. When you see a detailed multi-page report ready to go within an hour or two of an insanely chaotic military action (of any kind), it is bull shit, plain and clear. Just try reading reports about the Normandy invasion in history books in 2010. Now imagine trying to read the same level of detail, etc. a few hours after the first wave hit the beaches. …
… You get my point. The ‘tragic tale’ was ready to go well before the first commando slid down the rope…” · This is in the comments of another post. “I mean, so far as I understand it, “Hamas” isn’t a country. So Israel is not “at war” with Hamas. In any case, what’s being blockaded is not “Hamas,” but an area of Gaza. Is Israel at war with Gaza? All of it? Part of it? “You are quite correct. For Israel to legally blockade Hamas, it would have to recognize …
… Gaza as a belligerent, which would be a de facto recognition of its independence and entitle Gaza to the rights of belligerents under the Hague Convention of 1899, including, among other things, the responsibility to treat Palestinian prisoners from Gaza as prisoners of war, which Israel does not do.” · Here are the weapons found on the boat where the fighting took place. Is this what armed terrorists use when they take on the mighty IDF? BTW, Lawrenceofcyberia is the blog name of the week. · Is it a coincidence that this happened during the Memorial Day weekend? Many Americans were at the beach, and not watching the news. …
This content was originally published June 1, 2010. … Tipper and Al Gore have separated after 40 years of marriage. Mr. Gore was Vice President under Bill Clinton, and won the popular vote for President in the 2000 election. If the Gore’s had moved into the White House, then Tipper would probably continued the unfortunate tradition of celebrity First Lady. I once saw an appearance by the Gores and Hillary Clinton. It was at a downtown rally during the 1992 election. Tipper Gore said (not an exact quote) that Hillary is just as warm and friendly in person as she is in public.
This content was originally published June 2, 2010. … Writerspot has a selected author of the month. Today, it is Allen Ginsberg. When going to the inevitable website, I learned that Peter Orlovsky died May 30, 2010. Mr. Orlovsky was the longtime lover of Mr. Ginsberg. The poet had a part in many new age dramas, with a few musicals and comedies thrown in for good measure. Hippie, beatnik, gay, artist, peace promoter, Buddhist convert…these are a few of the labels. He became famous for being famous, well known to people who never read a word of his poems. …
… Two of the more famous poems were Howl and Kaddish. Howl became scandalous in 1956 when it was busted for obscenity. It is mild by today’s standards, but almost landed Mr. Ginsberg in prison. I heard about howl in the early nineties, and looked high and low for a copy. I could not find one. Today, not only is the text widely available, there are recordings of Mr. Ginsberg reading his work. The plan was to listen to Howl, while editing photos. About the seventeenth time Mr. Ginsberg shouted Moloch, the plan began to fall apart. The next poem was Kaddish. …
… This is about Naomi Ginsberg, the mother of the poet, who evidently had some issues. This was tough to listen to, so I focused on the pictures. Many of those images were Atlanta in 1956, the year of the Howl obscenity trial. I was two years old. My brother was born in 1956. The Georgia legislature voted in a new flag, for whatever reason. The year before, President Eisenhower had a heart attack. Many wondered if it was a good idea to have Richard Nixon as vice president. Finally, I could stand no more of that voice. I am just not a poetry person. … Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken in September 1955. “Roswell Road at Wieuca, for Adams-Cates Company”. This is what it looks like today.
Obama Kill Switch
This content was originally published June 17, 2010. … There is a scary headline, “New Bill Gives Obama ‘Kill Switch’ To Shut Down The Internet. When you get to the text of the story, you see a link to the source article. When you click on this link, you see that Prison Planet is facilitated by Alex Jones. Further down in the Aimlow text, he says that the internet is not shut downable, even by the evil Kenyan. It turns out that the bill to allow this internet regulation was sponsored by Joe Lieberman, which brings us to the gist of this story. …
… I have had doubts about the good intentions of Mr. Lieberman for a while. A few months ago, he spoke at a press conference in Israel, where he said, in effect, don’t listen to the President, the congress is never going to do anything Israel does not like. I suspect that Israel needs a bit of “tough love” these days, and Mr. Lieberman is not likely to help. The scary thing is, Joe Lieberman ran for Vice President in 2000, and received a majority of the popular vote. Because of a technicality, Mr. Lieberman was not allowed to serve. …
… While it is generally agreed that the Presidency of George W. Bush was a disaster, the concept of Joe Lieberman as Vice President is possibly worse. VPOTUS is “one heartbeat away” from the big show. In addition to this, the Vice office is a stepping stone to oval office election. If Mr. Lieberman had served as VPOTUS, he would have had four/eight years in the spotlight. It is assumed that he would run for POTUS after Mr. Gore stepped down. The party nomination would be a given. Given the klutzoid nature of the Republican party …
This content was originally published June 16, 2010. … It started with a facebook comment. Someone said she would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. Some incorrigible replied, what if you curse the darkness at both ends? Burning the candle at both ends can cause spectacular light, but it is inefficient. You have to devise a way to hold it, and have something underneath it to catch the river of melted wax that will follow. A candle held perpendicular to earth will have a pool of melted wax below the wick. This wax will vaporize, and burn, and produce light.
… This pool of wax will last a long time, and not spill to the side. This is why a tea candle lasts so long … it is an efficient wax burning device. It has a metal cup at the bottom, which inhibits lighting at both ends. Which brings us to cursing the darkness, a condition caused by the lack of light. Darkness does not have top, bottom, nor sides. The room that is dark might, but the darkness itself is without boundaries. To curse the darkness at both ends would require you to know what those ends are. …
This content was originally published June 15, 2022. … 01- Fair is when a baseball is hit between first and third base. Sometimes it is a tough call. 02- Sunday morning is too sweet to waste on religion. 03- Only argue when it is worthwhile. Don’t argue just to have fun. Better yet, don’t argue. 04- Cry because you are happy. 05- Getting angry with God is like getting angry with standard time. 06- You don’t have to spend all your money at once. Save a bit now and then, and think of a reason later. 07- The sugar and chemicals in commercial chocolate covers up most of the taste. …
… 08- Make pizza with your pasta so it won’t screw up your salad. 09- If you turn your back on God, she will still be looking you in the eyes. 10- Politicians, like diapers, should be changed frequently. 11- Some sayings should be retired. They have been used too much, and no longer mean anything. 12- Does your neighbor’s pain make your pleasure worthwhile? 13- If you have to ask permission, you probably don’t need to. 14- If you charge your happiness, pay the bill at the end of the month. 15- Your reaction to a disaster cannot wait. Act now, using the best judgment you have. …
… 16- The more people talk about forgiveness, the less they practice it. 17- If you don’t want someone to hear what you say, keep your voice down. 18- Time wounds all heels. This is especially true in North Carolina. 19- The middle three letters of the word believe is lie. 20- God is a neutral. She loves and hates in equal measure. 21- Show up, Stay awake, and don’t kill anybody. 22- Youth is wasted on the young. Maturity is wasted on the mature. 23- When you make a list like this, don’t worry about contradicting yourself, or being a hypocrite. …
… 24- Never wrestle with an pig. You will get dirty, and the pig will enjoy it. 25- Be careful when you ask for something, you might get it. 26- The pest is yet to come. He will go away later. 27- Smile, and people will wonder what you are up to. 28- Use spell check, and correct grammar. You will sound smarter than you are. Some of those are worthwhile thoughts. Some are just plain stupid. The commodity wisdom racket is tougher than ever. When this list was published in 2018, there were 45 rules. This production was inspired by a chain e-mail, featuring Regina Brett. … Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken March 23, 1962. “Krystal Restaurant 3385 Memorial Drive.”
Which Poet Are You?
This content was originally published June 19, 2014. … This is true for people with, or without, privilege. (Almost everyone in America has some sort of privilege.) People are skeptical for a lot of reasons. They have been lied to many times. They are told things to manipulate their emotions. If you want to encourage understanding, then you should listen to what they have to say. Quit talking, and start listening. Quit using labels, and consider that it is a human being you are dealing with. …
… chamblee54 Georgia is going to poison Marcus Wellons tonight. The source of the drugs is a state secret. Noway Please tell me, chamblee, how “poisoning” a murdering animal is a bad thing? chamblee54 1- I don’t like the politically correct expression “lethal injection.” 2- Mr. Wellons is a nasty piece of work, who committed a horrible crime. He probably deserves to die. However, this is not always the case in a state sponsored, premeditated, killing. 3- The whole business of using secret drugs, from a secret source, is appalling. Three Jack Just shoot em, no chemicals needed. …
… chamblee54 Today is the 75th anniversary of the last public execution in France. On June 17, 1939, Eugen Weidmann was dispatched. The guillotine was used. The guillotine may be the most efficient, and least painful, method for executions. Unfortunately, it is rather messy. We have to pretend that we are a civilized society. There are endless appeals, and the humane seeming “lethal injection.” gcp “We like to pretend that we are a civilized society.” We have some members of our society who are quite uncivilized and have shown they can’t exist in this society which is why we have prisons …
This content was originally published June 21, 2014. … There is some talk about what the media tastefully calls drone strikes. Unmanned airplanes are piloted by remote control. The focus on a target, and fire a AGM-114 Hellfire II Missile. Often, a second strike is made, after rescuers come to the scene. When the dead are buried, there is sometimes a strike on the funeral. The Hellfire II Missile costs $40,000. The drones use lots of fuel, and require maintenance. Meanwhile, the moving lips in Washington say that no civilians are killed by these attacks. …
… “More recently, on February 8, the Times reported the BIJ’s findings that the CIA’s drone attacks in Pakistan “have repeatedly targeted rescuers who responded to the scene of a strike, as well as mourners at subsequent funerals.” But after highlighting BIJ’s report, the article then allowed a “senior American counterterrorism official, speaking on the condition of anonymity” to not just question the report’s findings, but to state: “One must wonder why an effort that has so carefully gone after terrorists who plot to kill civilians has been subjected to so much misinformation.” …
This content was originally published June 27, 2014. … I rode my bike to walmart. A bottle of liquid soap was purchased. On the way home, I noticed the bike making a strange noise when braking. When I got home, I saw a liquid puddle under the bike. The top had come off the bottle of soap, and cleaning product was everywhere. After cleaning up, and a car trip to walmart, the internet chipped in. A friend had taken a quiz, Which Poet Are You? The friend got Charles Bukowski. The friend is better looking than Mr. Bukowski. That is setting the bar low. …
… The first question is “Where do you like to write?” The third question is “What muse speaks to you?” There is a picture of a bronze Buddha, wearing a Prussian army helmet. This is a hard hat with a rhino spear rising out of the top. It is most phallic, and totally impractical in the nuclear age. The rest of the questions were stupid. You got: Edgar Allen Poe. “Your dark side is your best side. You excel at noticing the weird, the macabre, and the eerie. While others are frightened by darkness and strange, you feel … Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken May 7, 1951. Glenn Iris Supper Club · selah
Is Sarah Silverman Funny?
This material was originally published June 17, 2014. … There was a “promoted” tweet yesterday. @Scribd New on our blog! Laugh So Hard You’ll Pee, The 15 Funniest Lines From Sarah Silverman’s Book. The book, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee, was published April 20, 2010. That fact may be the funnier than the 15 lines.
Most of the lines were embedded in pictures, which means a blogger would have to retype them. This is too much work. The few in text form were not very funny. But then, neither is Sarah Silverman, who once gave a TED talk. The big dog at TT said it was “G-d awful,” and did not allow it to be officially released. I saw the video as part of my research for Is Sarah Silverman Funny? The last seven words of the poem: “don’t make me listen to it again.”
The publisher has a survey “to see if this is the book for you.” · “1. Which of the following do you appreciate? (a) Women with somewhat horse-ish facial features. (b) Women who, while not super Jew-y, are more identifiably Jewish than, say, Natalie Portman. (c) Frequent discussion of unwanted body hair. · 2. Are you offended by the following behavior? (a) Instructing one’s grandmother to place baked goods in her rectal cavity. (b) Stripping naked in public—eleven times in a row. (c) Stabbing one’s boss in the head with a writing implement. · 3. The best way to treat an emotionally fragile young girl is: (a) Murder the main course of her Thanksgiving dinner before her very eyes. (b) Tell her that her older sister is prettier than she, and then immediately die. (c) Prevent her suicide by recommending she stay away from open windows. · If you read the above questions without getting nauseous or forming a hate Web site, you are ready to buy this book! Please proceed to the cashier.”
The survey did not indicate whether the book would be at the library, or a yard sale. After four years, it is probably available in discount bins. Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture: “Moreland Avenue and Euclid”
EarthtoDavid
This content was originally published June 18, 2008. … “Oil shale is the fuel of the future, and always will be,” goes a popular saying in Western Colorado. There is a lot of talk these days about oil. Many blame the cost of oil on the reluctance of The United States to drill in certain parts of our territory. This view is especially popular on talk radio. Many suspect radio talkers of being on the oil industry payroll. One of the sources of energy considered today is oil shale. This mineral is found in large quantities in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. …
… Extraction of petroleum from the shale is a mess. Essentially, you heat the rock until the oil comes out. The process uses a lot of water, and leaves a great deal of nasty cooked rock behind. There are some proposals to sink heating towers into the earth and cook the oil out in the ground. That sounds awfully complicated, expensive, and dangerous to this reporter. The extraction of oil from the earth is a messy matter. When you dig a hole several miles into the ground, lots of mud will come up and need to be disposed of. …
This content was originally published June 14, 2008. … One of the regular stops on this computer is EarthtoDavid. ETD is a country man living in Opelika, Alabama. Recently, he started a “fitness journal”. Now, there are two ways to see this sort of blogging. You can say it is narcissistic and ignore it. Or you can read and enjoy it. Both answers are correct. Part of this journal is the songs on his mp3 player while he walks. … As I commented: “I like to walk and bicycle. However, I do not own an mp3 player. I like to listen to …
… ETD was a big enough man not to be offended by that, and the next day : ” that is what I did. It was really nice to hear the raindrops falling on my umbrella as well as the tree frogs, birds chirping, fish jumping in the water out on the lake, some swimmers out in the water throwing frisbee and enjoying a light rainy evening and seeing the sun settle down behind a thick blanket of rain clouds.” Part of this journal is a picture of ETD, at the top of the post. I began to notice to telltale wire of the mp3 player. …
… I have a bit of history/baggage here. I worked for a long time across the room from an earplug listener. His desk was in front of my work station, so when I was doing my job, I was looking at him. He looked like an idiot with that reverse colostomy bag hooked up to him. There is a lot more to this story…he was an vocally abusive Christian …but seeing hundreds of hours of him listening to his preaching tapes was the icing on the cake.” Life is a matter of personal connections. You connect things to people in your life.
This content was originally published June 11, 2008. … I had assumed that JSM was assured of Georgia’s electoral votes. But looking at these stats from CL, I begin to wonder: Amount Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign has raised in Georgia: $1,305,275, Amount Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has raised in Georgia: $2,458,219, Number of votes Obama received in 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary: 704,247, Number of votes McCain received in 2008 Georgia Republican Presidential Primary: 304,751, Number of votes Sen. John Kerry received in 2004 Georgia Democratic Presidential Primary: 293,265
… There is also the BHO charisma. The dude is a rock star. He has people fired up in a way that JSM can only dream about. … Black voters are a big part of the electorate in Georgia. This block should go overwhelmingly to BHO. Lets assume that a million votes are cast in Georgia. If 30% are black, and they all go for BHO (this is not reality, just pre summer speculation), then that leaves 70% of the population. BHO would only need 200K votes, or 28%, of the non black community. …
… JSM appeared on the Today show this morning. He said we need to be concerned about greenhouse gases, which causes apoplexy in Red America. There was talk about Nuclear Power, which is expensive, and requires intense Government Regulation. There was talk about high gas prices, but no one connects the dots to the weak dollar and deficit spending in Babylon. Oh, and the surge is working. Happy talk in the press is part of the surge strategy. JSM has a more likable personality that BHO. JSM appeared on the Glenn Beck show a few weeks ago, and the first thing he did was call Beck a jerk. … Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken August 17, 1955. “Phillips 66, Bankhead and Hightower” This is what 2656 Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy looks like today. · selah
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I believe Mr. Coates went to the West Bank, not Gaza. · I have not read “The Message” in spite of John’s efforts to promote it. · I found this article, and had the vague sense that I had read it before. Then I saw that riff with Gary Indiana, and I knew I had already read it, and did not want to read any more · The social media picture was taken July 12, 1955. “First National Bank and Pabst Blue Ribbon signs” · here is the monday morning reader for today. The quicksand topic last week was the Jordan Peterson nothing debate. When I was telling a friend about it yesterday, his reaction: Who is Jordan Peterson? · The social media picture: “Peachtree Street at night, downtown Atlanta, Georgia, 1937.” This is a repost from 2023. · today is the third of June. Did Billy Joe jump off a wooden bridge, over the Tallahatchie River near Money MS? This is the location of Bryant’s Grocery Store … where Carolyn Bryant was working one afternoon, when Emmett Till came in the store. · This is a repost from 2018. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress Russell Lee took the social media picture in August 1937. “Resident of Ericsburg, Minnesota” · In 2016, I published a poem, Then They Came. … first they came for the rich, i clicked like on facebook, then they came for #racists, i tweeted a #woke #hashtag, then they came for truth tellers, i gave my #thoughts&prayers, then they came for me. A person complained that I made this about “racists”. Which was my point. People get called racist for the flimsiest of reasons, and can suffer severe consequences. · The Elie Wiesel speech, Always take sides, is another example of this. · according to legend, someone asked Martin Niemöller if he included Catholics, in his famous poem “First They Came.” “I never said it. They can take care of themselves.” · The social media picture was taken September 23, 1968. “Buck Owens promotional visit … Capitol Records Distribution Corporation; Riviera Motel” · On March 13, 1988, Halabja was attacked with chemical weapons. Iraq, governed by Saddam Hussein, was almost certainly the culprit. Iraq was in a horrific war with Iran, and was supported by the United States, governed by Ronald Reagan. The United States tried to cover up the attack by blaming Iran. · The Iran-Iraq war had gone on for eight years at this point. Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of people died in that war. Iraq invaded Iran in 1980. At that time, Iran was holding Americans hostage. Many people wanted to bomb bomb bomb Iran. We were happy to see someone else do the dirty work. The United States gave vast amounts of support to Iraq, in its effort to wipe out the Islamic Republic. · There was speculation that the west was encouraging Iran and Iraq to fight as long as they could. The thinking went that when they were fighting each other, they were not fighting Israel. Perhaps if the warring parties had been encouraged to negotiate an end to the conflict, then the chemical weapons attack would not have taken place. · This was after the Iran Contra scandal. This was when the United States was selling arms to Iran, with the help of an Israeli middleman. This was at the same time we were supporting the Iraqi army. We were arming both sides of this horrific war · In 2014, Matt Walsh was a mere blogger, having comment fights with readers · so the r-word is retarded and not racist. I have a good story about the r-word, meaning mentally challenged. This man has a “challenged” brother. All his life, the r-word had been forbidden, and the challenged brother had never heard the word retarded. So, this man brings his boyfriend to meet the family, and the bf slips up and says retarded. Later, the challenged brother asked his mother what that word meant. His mom explains it to him. The challenged brother then said, “oh, I thought it had something to do with being gay · here is a selection of stories from 2008. Included are Neal Boortz, Lester Maddox, Barack H Obama, and Tom Waits. The picture below: “Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family, Pie Town, New Mexico” · This is a repost from 2009, based on a Listserve article, 15 Fascinating Facts About Toilets. LS continues to produce fresh content in 2025. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. The social media picture was taken January 7, 1911. “Bris (Briscoe Robotham) Lord, outfielder for the Philadelphia Athletics”. … Selah · These are borrowed from a site called Listserve. LS has lots of lists, and is publishing fresh content in 2025. · 90% of pharmaceuticals taken by people are eliminated through urination. Therefore our sewer systems contain heavy doses of drugs. A recent study by the EPA has found fish containing trace amounts of estrogen, cholesterol-lowering drugs, pain relievers, antibiotics, caffeine and even anti-depressants. Modern urine is expensive · @barrypopik “I’ve created a website selling and delivering #sausages over the #Internet. I’ll send you the #link” · when nothing moves you, if wishing in your hand doesn’t deliver, there is always a bowl of fruit, if the writing prompt does not lead to victory, stymied by writers tackle once again, · Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken October 19, 1955. “14th Street and Expressway” · selah
Rebelling Against God
This is a repost from 2014. … Matt Walsh put up a post, We can’t end ‘rape culture’ if we don’t end hook-up culture. (Internet archive does not have a copy.) Now, RC/HUC are dodgy concepts. Just last week, I saw a post about RC, that started “If you are a man, you are part of rape culture.”
OTOH, the “blogger, writer, and professional sayer of truths” has a wide audience. Any trickle down to this slack blog would be appreciated. The BWPST also answers comments, using a psuedonym. He is easily provoked. If you don’t want trolls to start trouble, then you should not answer them. Some people are easily amused.
The fun started when BWPST said “Just like every other problem in the culture, it’s ALL about rebellion against God.” When a Christian talks about God, he usually means something very different from what I think. One of the few things that I believe is God does not write books. I made a comment, and the fun began. Entertainment is not what it used to be.
chamblee54 “Just like every other problem in the culture, it’s ALL about rebellion against God.” The first commandment says to hold no other God before you. This does not mean a book. When you declare a book, compiled by a Catholic committee, to be the word of God, then you are violating this common sense rule. Violating this rule causes problems. Mo, are you Matt? · Mo @ chamblee54 “The first commandment says to hold no other G-d before you. This does not mean a book.”What on EARTH are you talking about? “When you declare a book, compiled by a Catholic committee, to be the word of G-d, then you are violating this common sense rule.” I haven’t declared anything, especially anything regarding Catholicism, as I am not Catholic. Show me where I mentioned anything about Catholicism? Nor did Catholics compile the Word of God. Take your nonsense elsewhere. I have zero time or patience for it. · chamblee54 Mo, are you Matt? · Mo @ chamblee54 “Mo, are you Matt?” How about addressing the POINTS I made to you and the questions I asked? Another troll, capable of nothing but repeating the same nonsense over and over.
chamblee54 Ok, I don’t know where, or if, you said anything about the Roman Catholic Church. My point was about the Bible. The canon of the Christian church was compiled by a group of men. I might be mistaken on this point, but I believe they were Catholics. Whether of not the compilers of the bible were, or were not, Catholic is beside the point I want to make. That point is that the bible is not the word of God. God does not write books. When you confuse a book for God, you violate the first commandment. “How about addressing the POINTS I made to you and the questions I asked?” “Take your nonsense elsewhere. I have zero time or patience for it.” This is a contradiction. · Mo @ chamblee54 “Ok, I don’t know where, or if, you said anything about the Roman Catholic Church.” Okay, then your comment has no point since that’s what’s your crabbing about. Go troll someone else. Do not waste my time.
That is the end of the Matt Walsh/chamblee54 showdown. …We should take a look at the idea of “rebellion against God.” When you assume that a book contains the “word of God,” and use that assumption as a weapon to attack other people, that would seem to be “rebellion against God.” When you believe that a soveriegn deity is interested in your petty quarells, that might be “rebellion against God.” When you spend your time arguing with “trolls,” that might not be “rebellion against God,” but it looks foolish to those who don’t share your beliefs. · Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library The social media picture was taken September 25, 1968. Union Camp Corporation United Appeal campaign.
Halabja
This material was originally published June 21, 2008. … “On March 13, 1988, Iraq used poison gas to kill thousands of people in Halabja (ha lahb jah). A largely Kurdish town near the Iranian border, Halabja was the scene of much resistance to the War that Iraq and Iran were waging. The United States was “tilting” towards Iraq in this conflict. When Iraq invaded Iran (probably with the encouragement of the United States), Iran was holding Americans hostage in Tehran. This was a source of much anger towards Iran, and would be one reason for America to support Iraq.” …
This material was originally published June 21, 2008. … “The support for Iraq took the form of financial aid, shared intelligence, and a blind eye to Iraqi use of weapons of mass destruction. After the massacre in Halabja, The United States blamed Iran. There is also the question of where Iraq got the poison gas. Saddam was executed before he could go to trial on charges related to Halabja. There is also evidence that Iran was involved. According to Libcom.org, “On 13 March 1988 chemical bombs were dropped on Halabja. No Pasdaran nor Peshmargan were killed.” …
This material was originally published June 21, 2008. … “The New York Times has an excellent piece on the massacre. A key quote: “Some of those who engineered the tilt today are back in power in the Bush administration. They have yet to account for their judgment that it was Iran, not Iraq, that posed the primary threat to the Gulf; for building up Iraq so that it thought it could invade Kuwait and get away with it; for encouraging Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs by giving the regime a de facto green light on chemical weapons use” …
This material was originally published September 11, 2006. … “On March 13, 1988, the city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan was almost completely destroyed by the Iraqi armed forces using chemical weapons, supplied by the West. Around 5,000 people were killed at the time and many more more died from their injuries over the next few weeks. Halabja was not chosen arbitrarily as the site for such a massacre. It had been a major site of proletarian struggle against the Iran-Iraq war There was at least one deserter in every house, and sometimes four or five.” …
This material was originally published September 11, 2006. … “During 1987 the Iraqi government destroyed 45 villages around Halabja, using explosives to completely demolish all the houses. The inhabitants poured into Halabja, swelling the population to around 110,000. Almost all the young men in these villages had been deserters from the army. They were not just dropping out of the war but were always discussing ways of doing something against it. The influx of people led to a severe housing shortage and there were no jobs for most people. All the time there was talk amongst the unemployed about what to do about the war.” …
This material was originally published September 11, 2006. … “In 1987, three types of army existed in Halabja, in addition to the Iraqi army: a) Clan Armies … b) The Home Guard – This was by far the largest army. It was not uniformed and had very few weapons. It was the army that deserters joined … c) The Bounty Hunters – This was a small force which acted with extreme viciousness on behalf of the state. Their main function was to force deserters to join the Home Guard. After the massacre most of these scum went to Iran to do the same job for the Iranian state.” …
This material was originally published September 11, 2006. … “All the talk about stopping the government from destroying Halabja turned to action on 13 May 1987, when militants occupied the mosques and used the loudspeakers to call for the organisation of an uprising. Mosques were used because they were the most suitable buildings in which to hold mass meetings. This was ironic because for weeks before the priests had been giving a special talk after each Friday prayer meeting on… the evils of communist subversion! Almost the whole working clan population of Halabja was awake that night discussing and organising.” …
This material was originally published January 17, 2003 … This was at a time when Iraq was launching what proved to be the final battles of the war against Iran. Its wholesale use of poison gas against Iranian troops and Iranian Kurdish towns, and its threat to place chemical warheads on the missiles it was lobbing at Tehran, brought Iran to its knees. Iraq had also just embarked on a counterinsurgency campaign, called the Anfal, against its rebellious Kurds. In this effort, too, the regime’s resort to chemical weapons gave it a decisive edge, enabling the systematic killing of an estimated 100,000 men, women, and children.” …
This material was originally published January 17, 2003 … “The deliberate American prevarication on Halabja was the logical outcome of a pronounced six-year tilt toward Iraq, seen as a bulwark against the perceived threat posed by Iran. The United States began the tilt after Iraq, the aggressor in the war, was expelled from Iranian territory by Iran, which then decided to pursue regime change in Baghdad. Sensing correctly that it had carte blanche, Saddam’s regime escalated its resort to gas warfare, graduating to ever more lethal agents. Because of the strong Western animus against Iran, few paid heed. Then came Halabja.” …
This material was originally published January 17, 2003 … “The United States launched the “Iran too” gambit. … A State Department document demonstrates that U.S. diplomats received instructions to press this line with U.S. allies, and to decline to discuss the details. It took seven weeks for the UN Security Council to censure the Halabja attack. Even then, its choice of neutral language diffused the effect of its belated move. Iraq proceeded to step up its use of gas until the end of the war and even afterward, during the final stage of the Anfal campaign, to devastating effect.” … Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken September 23, 1968. “Buck Owens promotional visit, Riviera Motel”
Carolyn Bryant Donham
On August 24, 1955, Emmett Louis Till (ELT) went into Bryant’s Grocery & Meat Market, in Money MS. Later, the cashier, Carolyn Bryant Donham (CBD), falsely accused ELT of making improper advances. Four days later, fourteen year old ELT was brutally murdered by Roy Bryant, the husband of CBD, and JW Milam. This is the story I had always heard, and routinely accepted as the truth.
Recently, I saw a video that told a different story. In this version, a third party told Roy Bryant about the incident. More importantly, CBD never recanted her story. When The Blood of Emmett Till came out, news that CBD had recanted her story caused a sensation. The video had a screen shot of a newspaper article, with details about the non-confession.
“Timothy Tyson’s book on Emmett Till became a bestseller thanks to the bombshell quote he attributed to Carolyn Bryant Donham — that she lied when she testified about Till accosting her. Donham’s daughter-in-law, Marsha Bryant, who was present for the two tape-recorded interviews Tyson did with Donham, said her mother-in-law “never recanted. Adding to the intrigue is the fact the quote Tyson attributed to Donham isn’t on the recordings. … “It is true that that part is not on tape because I was setting up the tape recorder,” Tyson said.”
“Davis Houck, co-author of Emmett Till and the Mississippi Press, said if Donham is saying she didn’t recant in her interview with Tyson, “we’re left with a familiar story: a predatory black ‘man’ threatened to rape her on the evening of Aug. 24. “He sees two problems with that: Her court testimony differs greatly from her initial statement, where she said Till grabbed her hand, asked for a date, said goodbye and whistled. When Till’s killers arrived at Mose Wright’s house, (where Till was abducted) they asked for “the boy who did the talking at Money.” They didn’t ask for the one who touched Donham. If she indeed recanted, he said, “we are, at long last, asked to see her as a pawn in the defense attorneys’ strategy.”
A Justice Department investigation found no proof that CBD recanted her initial accusation. “Donham denied to federal investigators that she lied in her testimony, a source with knowledge of the case said, and there were inconsistencies with statements made by Tyson. … Tyson stood by his reporting, describing Donham as unreliable in an emailed statement.” It is possible that Timothy Tyson invented the story to sell books.
So what did happen at the store in Money, MS? “Emmett was left alone in the store for a minute or so with Carolyn Bryant, the white woman working the store’s cash register. … As Carolyn Bryant would later tell the story in a Tallahatchie County courthouse, Till asked her for some candy inside a candy counter. When Bryant placed the candy on top of the counter, Till grabbed her right hand tightly and asked, “How about a date, baby?” When Bryant pulled her hand free and started to walk away, Till grabbed her by the waist near the cash register and told her, “You needn’t be afraid of me, baby I’ve [slept] with white women before.”
“Till’s cousin, Simeon Wright, writing about the incident decades later, questioned Carolyn Bryant’s account. Entering the store “less than a minute” after Till was left inside alone with Bryant, Wright saw no inappropriate behavior and heard “no lecherous conversation.” Wright said Till “paid for his items and we left the store together.”
“There is, however, general agreement about what happened next outside the store. As Carolyn Bryant left the store and headed towards a car … Emmett whistled at her. Till’s cousin described it as “a loud wolf whistle, a big city ‘whee wheeeee!'” Till’s Mississippi cousins instantly knew that Till had broken a longstanding taboo relating to social conduct between blacks and whites, and that they were in grave danger. They quickly ran to their car and sped out of Money.”
The story about the *kid* from Chicago loudly whistling at CBD was a hot item in local conversations. Three days later,”Roy Bryant, Carolyn’s husband, returns to Mississippi after working on a shrimping boat in Texas. That afternoon, at the store, an African-American teenager tells Roy about the August 24 incident at the store involving Till and his wife. When he asks Carolyn about the incident, she urges her husband to forget about it. But he doesn’t. … To do nothing after hearing the story involving his wife, Bryant later told an interviewer, would have shown himself to be “a coward and a fool.”
“Sometime on Saturday August 27, plans fell into place to kidnap the offending black teenager and “teach him a lesson.” Bryant’s half-brother, John W. Milam, readily agreed to help. … According to historian Hugh Whitaker, who interviewed dozens of Mississippians who knew Bryant and Milam, the two “were invariably referred to as ‘peckerwoods,’ ‘white trash,’ and other terms of disappropriation.”
“Within the next few hours, Bryant and Milam somehow learned that the wolf-whistler was staying at the home of “Preacher” Moses Wright. At 2:30 a.m., a vehicle with headlights off pulled up in front of Wright’s home east of Money. … When Wright went to the door, the man identified himself as Roy Bryant and said that he wanted to talk to “a fat boy” from Chicago. Standing on the porch with Bryant were Milam and a black man, hiding his face, who (according to his own later admission) was Otha Johnson, Milam’s odd-job man. The men searched the occupied beds looking for Till. Coming to Till’s bed, Milam shined a flashlight in the boy’s face and asked, “You the niggah that did the talking down at Money?” When Till answered, “Yeah,” Milam said, “Don’t say ‘yeah’ to me, niggah. I’ll blow your head off. Get your clothes on.” Warning the Wrights they’d be killed if they told anyone they had come by, Milam and Wright ushered Till out of the house and to their parked vehicle. Standing on the porch looking out into the dark, Moses Wright heard a woman’s voice–possibly Carolyn Bryant’s–from inside the vehicle tell the abductors they had found the right boy. What happened over the next three or four hours is not known for certain.”
An FBI document has conflicting details. “After deciding to kill Till, they traveled to a cotton gin at Boyle MS and picked up a discarded gin fan there. Milam is quoted as saying “When we got to that gin, it was daylight, and I was worried for the first time. Someone might see us and accuse us of stealing the fan.” … “They took Till’s body to a bridge in a secluded area, affixed the gin fan to Till and threw him off the bridge, into the Tallahatchie River” … “Two blacks, who worked for the Milams, were part of the group that beat and killed Till. One of the blacks discovered Till wasn’t dead so the two blacks killed him and helped in the disposal of his body.” At any rate, ELT was murdered, the gin fan was tied to his body, and the body was dumped in the Tallahatchie River.
One surprising detail is the participation of Black men in the crime. “Two potential key witnesses, both blacks who allegedly assisted with the abduction and murder of Till, were unavailable to the prosecution. Both Leroy “Too Tight” Collins and Henry Loggins, who prosecutors assumed only to be missing, were actually being held under false identities in a jail in Charleston, Mississippi under orders of Sheriff H. C. Strider, who had thrown the full weight of his office behind the defense efforts.”
Today is the third of June. Did Billy Joe McCallister jump into the Tallahatchie River? “Ode to Billy Joe” is a made up story. Choctaw Ridge is nowhere near the Tallahatchie River. Wikipedia does have an interesting comment about the Tallahatchie Bridge. “The wooden bridge collapsed in 1972 after being set alight by vandals. It crossed the Tallahatchie River at Money, about ten miles north of Greenwood.” Money is where Bryant’s Grocery Store is. The name changed soon after the murder, and the store is now in dilapidated shape.
“To say that Bryant “made it all up” implies that she lied about the wolf-whistle, also. It is important to point out, however, that Till’s cousins — Maurice Wright, Simeon Wright, and Wheeler Parker — who witnessed the incident, were the ones who told the press about the whistle just days after it occurred. Bryant herself said nothing about the whistle publicly until the murder trial. Thus all news reports about the whistle up to the trial came directly from Till’s cousins.”
“But it was at the trial where Bryant added some sensational details that seemed to come out of nowhere, and this is where she lied. … Just five days after the murder, with her husband and brother-in-law sitting in jail, she told defense attorney Sidney Carlton a different story than the one she would tell in court three weeks later. Carlton’s hand-written notes make no mention of the more salacious parts. “Wednesday Aug. 24 about 7:30 or 8 P.M. (dark) boy came to candy counter & I waited on him & when I went to take money he grabbed my hand & said ‘how about a date’ and I walked away from him and he said ‘what’s the matter Baby can’t you take it?’ He went out door and said ‘goodbye’ and I went out to car & got pistol and when I came back he whistled at me—this whistle while I was going after pistol—didn’t do anything further after he saw pistol.’”
“Because Bryant’s story developed after Till’s death, it is clear the lies she told on the stand did not lead to murder but came later for the benefit of the jury in order to guarantee an acquittal. Also, Carolyn Bryant is not the one who told her husband about the store incident in the first place. He was out of town at the time but heard it three days after the fact from one of the young teens who was present at the store the night of the incident. … Carolyn only confirmed the incident to Roy after he confronted her. … Tyson told another detail about Bryant’s false story in a paper leaked online in 2014, saying it was concocted for her to use by defense attorneys and Bryant family members. For whatever reason, Tyson did not include this detail in his book. It is not on the notepad and presumably, is not on tape either.”
@GavinNewsom “His physical mannerisms are aggressive…I feel threatened by him.”-Marjorie Taylor Greene describing Rep. Bowman This is the kind of dangerous rhetoric that led to Emmett Till’s death. Everyone should call this out for what it is: blatant racism.” This type of overheated rhetoric is becoming common. It is based on a cynical version of a tragic history. It does not honor the memory of Emmett Till. “Everyone should call this out for what it is: blatant racism.”
Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, GSU Library. The social media picture: “Peachtree Street at night, downtown Atlanta, Georgia, 1937.” This is a repost from 2023.
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“Atheists reject God, but they don’t understand what they’re rejecting” Do Christians understand the God they are accepting? · @GadSaad I’m not a fan of some of Greenwald’s positions but this is truly reprehensible. The culprits are criminally engaging in consequentialist ethics, which demonstrates the importance of adhering to deontological principles on such matters. · Russell Lee took the social media picture in May 1938. “Carnival employee sleeping in hammock underneath wagon. Lasses-White show. Sikeston, Missouri” · Theo Von – they might have some drawings of me having sex — Chad Ochocinco – Are you married? — Theo Von – no i got to get married man — Chad – do you have a girlfriend? — Theo – not right now no i’m going to get one — Theo’s body language here is fun to watch. @TheoVon @ochocinco · At 4:20 in the video, @ochocinco explains the term “Mandingo” to @TheoVon – “oh it’s a it’s a wiener term · kind of · oh dang i didn’t know it” · here is the monday morning reader for this week. If you are not satisfied with the product, your fee of admission will be cheerfully refunded. · Russell Lee took the social media picture in February 1940. “Wife of Pomp Hall, right, talking with another woman at UCAPAWA (United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America) meeting at Bristow, Oklahoma.” · Manley Pointer is a recovering Bible salesman, and the son of Georgia Tech legend George P. Burdell. Mr. Pointer is currently a poet in Atlanta GA. This is his story. · the way jubilee changed the title from “1 Christian vs 20 Atheists (ft. Jordan Peterson)” to “Jordan Peterson vs 20 Atheists” after 4 hours is so funny · … Exogenous means “produced by growth from superficial tissue”, and apparently has little to do with the Bible. Thats the cool thing about big words … nobody knows what they mean when you spit them out fast. For full disclosure, this might not have been what Cade said. The youtube transcript said · “Jordan Peterson, if you don’t know him, he doesn’t know himself. So it’s not a big deal. I mean if you ask him, who are you, he’ll tell you what is who, what is are, what is you …” This may be more truth than poetry. Ever since Jordan Bernt Peterson came out of his near death experience with Benzodiazepines, he gets more and more Bidenesque every day. · Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library The social media picture was taken May 22,1955. “Colonial Stores supermarket at Briarcliff and LaVista” · “20 Atheists” were invited to a program titled “1 Christian vs 20 Atheists (ft. Jordan Peterson).” It was rather amusing when Dr. Peterson declined to say that he was, indeed, a Christian. · Jordan Peterson is so incredibly dull like I feel like he uses being boring as a weapon · “Jordan Peterson is so incredibly dull like I feel like he uses being boring as a weapon” @hasanthehun · Russell Lee took the social media picture in March 1939. “Two children of family living on relief near Jefferson, Texas. These children did not attend school because of lack of warm clothes and indifference of mother who was sick with pellagra.” · 00:35 Claim #1 Atheists reject God, but they don’t understand what they’re rejecting 18:30 Claim #2 Morality and purpose can’t be found within science 38:04 Claim #3 Everybody worships something, including atheists, even though they might not know it 59:47 Claim #4 Atheists accept Christian morality, but deny the religion’s foundational stories 01:18:03 Atheist Claim Jordan Peterson’s framework for understanding Christianity is probably not the one the Bible intended us to use · This is a birthday greeting to someone who has been in the hospital for three weeks: Happy Birthday Sir, despite the circumstances. Once, during one of our wars, there was a picture on tv of some Arabic graffiti, on a boarded up window. The news reporters said how horrible it was. Someone who read Arabic translated it as “Happy Birthday Sir, despite the circumstances” Story by John Green. Apologies if “Sir” is not gender appropriate. I would enjoy a non-binary version of Sir and Mam. · George H.W. Bush , 1989 Gridiron Club: “People say I’m indecisive, but I don’t know about that.” Richard Nixon, in Ms. magazine, 1971: “Let me make one thing perfectly clear. I wouldn’t want to wake up next to a lady pipefitter.” · “Luke” is named Cade. Many of your points are valid otherwise. I think many people saw Cade, and didn’t want to see the rest of the show. I have, unfortunately, encountered many of these “arguments” in conversations with Christians. · cadebhanson@gmail.com · I saw your “hook up” with Jordan B Peterson, and I have a few thoughts. This show seems to have inspired 100o reaction videos. It seems like everyone has a Jordan Peterson in their life … and it was so satisfying to see “they” put in “their” place. … Someone should have asked him what his preferred pronouns were, or started their segment by announcing theirs. Passive aggession is tacky, but so much fun. · Here is a post I wrote about this encounter. I am resisting the temptation to write more, and might have to. “The format of this telenova is for JBP to present a “claim”, and the young atheists run to the interview chair to do battle. Claim #1 “Atheists reject God, but they don’t understand what they’re rejecting” (Do Christians understand the God that they are worshiping?) The first fighting atheist is Cade Bradley, aka gayextrad. Cade was studying for the Catholic priesthood, and can sling big words like a pro. … “when we look at the Bible the Bible can’t precisely say anything because there are so many different exegetical and hermeneutic views of this particular book and that everybody has disagreed historically on it seems like even the most benign detail about a book this big and it seems like you can only say that the Bible says something if you first presuppose that it’s univocal.” This was early in the show, before the audience went to sleep.” · I enjoyed your segment. I have been in so many discussions where people sling out the big words like weapons. It was fun to see one of the good guys using this tactic. I also suspect that you had more viewers than many. I find Dr. P difficult to take, and could only listen to so much. I feel as though many people agree. · I have my own story. I was brought up in the Southern Baptist planet, in suburban Atlanta GA. I became unchristian, had temptations to go back, before working closely with an aggressive, hateful, bully for Jesus. This individual was Black, which adds another layer of weirdness to the thing. · I was forced to examine everything I thought I knew, and came to some ideas. I could go into great detail … God is in the details … but it would not make me happy to do so. · One thing is see is the entire concept of belief. Does it really matter whether or not you believe in the existence of Yahweh? I suspect that dependence on belief is peculiar to Yahweh based religions, and that more practice oriented disciplines, like Buddhism, are not like that. This is just what I think, and could be wrong and/or misinformed. · I could go on, but people in the circle are holding up red flags. Thank you for being you, and sharing that with us. · Marjory Collins took the social media picture in February 1943. “New York, New York O’Reilly’s at Third Avenue and Fifty-Fourth Street, on Saturday night” · Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library The social media picture was taken July 12, 1955. “First National Bank and Pabst Blue Ribbon signs”. · selah
The Nothing Of Jordan Peterson
“Jordan Peterson, if you don’t know him, he doesn’t know himself. So it’s not a big deal. I mean if you ask him, who are you, he’ll tell you what is who, what is are, what is you …” This may be more truth than poetry. Ever since Jordan Bernt Peterson came out of his near death experience with Benzodiazepines, he gets more and more Bidenesque every day.
I had been avoiding the video where JBP sits down with “20 atheists.” I am beyond tired of JBP, and the semantics of the God issue make me want to puke. That was before I saw this x-crete. I got “sucked into” this matter, and might as well get a blog post out of it.
It takes a bit of digging to find the original post. The title on youtube is Jordan Peterson vs 20 Atheists. When I posted that link on x, the title is shown as “1 Christian vs 20 Atheists (ft. Jordan Peterson)” Apparently, after this drama became popular, someone went in for damage control.
JBP is a bullshitter. He sort of makes points, but packages them in layers of semantics, sophistry, obfuscation, and just plain noise. Some people are impressed by this. This problem here is that when you live by the gotcha, you die by the gotcha. JBP just became too clever for his own good, and was hoisted on his own petard. To the millions that are bored by his antics, the downfall of JBP is hilarious. Of course, when you wear a pin stripe suit to talk to baseball hats …
The format of this telenova is for JBP to present a “claim”, and the young atheists run to the interview chair to do battle. Claim #1 “Atheists reject God, but they don’t understand what they’re rejecting” The first fighting atheist is Cade Bradley, aka gayextrad. Cade was studying for the Catholic priesthood, and can sling big words like a pro. … “when we look at the Bible the Bible can’t precisely say anything because there are so many different exegetical and hermeneutic views of this particular book and that everybody has disagreed historically on it seems like even the most benign detail about a book this big and it seems like you can only say that the Bible says something if you first presuppose that it’s univocal.” This was early in the show, before the audience went to sleep.
At 48:46, one atheist is “voted out by the majority”, and @dannyphiltalk moves into the hot chair. Danny is going to be the viral sensation. JBP is defending Claim #3 “Everybody worships something, including atheists, even though they might not know it”.
“How do they regard Mary?” … “Why are you asking me that?” … “Because you’re a Christian?” You say that” … “I haven’t claimed that” … “Oh what is this is this Christians versus atheist” … “I don’t know” … “You don’t know where you are right now” … “Don’t be a smartass” … “I mean either you’re a Christian or you’re not” … “You’re a smart ass” … “Either you’re a Christian or you’re not. Which one is it?” … “I could be either of them but I don’t have to tell you you” … “You don’t have to tell me? I was under the impression I was invited to talk to a Christian. Am I not talking to a Christian?” … “No … “I think everyone should look at the title of the YouTube channel. You’re probably in the wrong YouTube video.” … “You’re really quite something you?” … “but you’re really quite nothing”
If you really are hard up for entertainment, you say see the entire shitshow here. If that isn’t enough, chamblee54 has written about JBP several times. 061318 061718 070318 072719 021220 020224 Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library The social media picture was taken May 22,1955. “Colonial Stores supermarket at Briarcliff and LaVista”
Cameo Lounge
Content below was originally published May 21, 2008. … There is a gentleman in Iran who is protesting the Islamic regime by burning Quran. This would not seem to be good for his general health, unless he enjoys getting an aerial view of Tehran from a crane, with a rope around his neck. In Catharsis, Abbas points out that the approved method of disposing of a tattered Quran is to burn it. This brings to mind the controversies stateside about burning the flag. The proper method for disposal of an old flag is to respectfully burn it. …
In these commentaries about Quran, I notice that no one ever says “The Quran”. This is strange to me, because the holy book of our culture is THE Bible. The B-word almost never appears without THE. I am not sure how Arabic works. Do they routinely use devices like THE to specify objects? One thing about use of THE with the Bible. Christians have this notion that this text is THE word of God. This idea … which is rarely challenged by believers … is ridiculous to this reporter. God does not write books … and that applies to ٱلْقُرْآن as well. …
Content below was originally published May 24, 2010. … In 1968, Lenox Square was an open air mall, with a bowling alley and grocery store. There were concrete statues of Uncle Remus characters on display. Two doors were kept locked in the restrooms downstairs, beside Davisons. When the mall first opened, those rooms were “colored men” and “colored women”. … One day, there was a man on the courtyard, with a stack of newspapers. I asked what it was, and the man said it was mostly politics. I gave the man fifteen cents, and got a copy of “The Great Speckled Bird”. …
“The Bird” was 16 pages of tabloid sized newsprint. There were two things in that edition that I remember. There was a story about a man who had been in ‘Nam. He was proud to be the first Marine to piss in the latrine at Da Nang. There was also a crude drawing of a naked woman. An arrow pointed to the vagina, with a caption ”pussy- good for screwing and or babies”. The Bird was not known for subtle sophistication. … In 1968, someone printed a “greatest hits” edition, with the headline ”New Era prints hippie smut sheet”. …
The content below was originally published May 9, 2011. … “thanks to Bukowski’s nearly graphomaniacal fecundity. “I usually write ten or fifteen [poems] at once,” he said, and he imagined the act of writing as a kind of entranced combat with the typewriter, as in his poem “cool black air”: “now I sit down to it and I bang it, I don’t use the light / touch, I bang it.” … the late Charles Bukowski, who was called Hank by those who knew him. Out of the millions of useless drunks feeding the urinals on planet earth, at least one had literary merit. …
… After nine paragraphs, and two poems, there is the phrase that pays … graphomaniacal fecundity . (spell check suggestion:nymphomaniac) As best as we can figure, gf means that Hank wrote a lot of stuff. If you keep your quantity up, the quality will take care of itself. Hank seems to agree, spitting out product “like hot turds the morning after a good beer drunk.” He seemed to take pride in doing what Truman Capote said about Jack Kerouac … he doesn’t write, he types. If you google the phrase graphomaniacal fecundity, you can choose from 71 results. …
… A blogspot facility called poemanias quotes the paragraph from the New Yorker, with the title “On Bukowski’s afterlife”. Fourhourhardon (spell check suggestion: Nonhazardous) reprints the entire thing. Neither provide a link back to the original. Goliath and Petey Luvs Blog take the same copy-paste approach. The first tries to get you to pay for more reading material. … “He was a contemporary of the Beats, but not quite one of them because he was darker and not as willing to smoke a joint and sing Phil Ochs songs on the lower east side. ” The truth is, Hank hated marijuana, and had the classic alcoholic attitude about it. … Pictures today are from Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library. The social media picture was taken March 21, 1960. “Cameo Lounge”
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