Here you go. Synchronized Swimming (I guess they call it “Artistic” now) Team and Pairs from Rio 2016. The odd thing is that I know all the moves. I’m telling you I ran out of all the Water Sports Electives before I got stuck with 4 Square and Arts and Crafts. Enameling was cool (A&C …
Category: News
May 03 2020
The Breakfast Club (Banjo and Didgeridoo)
Welcome to The Breakfast Club! AP’s Today in History for May 3rd Philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli born; The U.S. Supreme Court rules racial covenants in real estate are unenforceable; Joe DiMaggio makes his baseball debut; Singers Pete Seeger and James Brown born. Breakfast Tune Banjo and Didgeridoo Live! ‘I Feel Good’ a James Brown cover Something …
May 02 2020
Cartnoon
Gor is about the most horrible, misogynistic, racist Science Fiction Series (Horseclans is a close Second) I ever bought 20 Volumes of because I’m also a completeist. The Gor series repeatedly depicts men abducting and physically and sexually brutalizing women, who grow to enjoy their submissive state. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Norman’s …
May 01 2020
Corona Class
Thomas Piketty has this to say- The bottom 50 percent of the population in the U.S. owns less than 2 percent of total wealth. It used to be 3 or 4 percent 20 years ago; now it’s less than 2 percent. It’s always been very small, in any case, but it’s not going in the …
May 01 2020
Allez le Barricades!
The Internationale Arise ye workers from your slumbers Arise ye prisoners of want For reason in revolt now thunders And at last ends the age of cant. Away with all your superstitions Servile masses arise, arise We’ll change henceforth the old tradition And spurn the dust to win the prize. So comrades, come rally …
Apr 30 2020
Some Numbers
Here’s one that struck me. In 6 Weeks Republicans have caused more deaths than the Vietnam War. COVID-19 has now killed more Americans than the Vietnam War By Kurtis Lee, Los Angeles Times April 28, 2020 U.S. coronavirus-related deaths reached a somber milestone on Tuesday, surpassing the number of Americans killed in the Vietnam War. …
Apr 29 2020
Kismet
It’s Arabic and means either “Fate”, “Portion”, or “Division” (in the ‘part of’ sense not the ‘conflict’ sense) depending on context and in this instance I’m using it in the “Fate” definition and am not referring at all to the Lederer/Davis Musical from 1953 starring Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow, and Richard Kiley or the 1955 …
Apr 29 2020
The Next Depression
Well, first of all, we’ve lost over 26 Million Jobs in 4 weeks, highest levels since the Great Depression (and indeed faster). The only reason it isn’t higher is that States can’t keep up with the filings. Inevitably GDP (which I’ll point out is not a good indicator of actual Economic performance but it will …
Apr 29 2020
Cartnoon
Here’s something Les was working on before we went into Social Distancing mode, so it’s not quite as paranoid as it looks in context. These were tools he was preparing for a 2021 PBS series and he promises some more. I am not a hard core Prepper or a Zombie Apocalypse Nutter. I frequently shop …