Friday, August 28, 2015

Friday Stuff

John Oliver continues to address important issues using humor, as he does here on the matter of a federal law protecting LGBT individuals (the stuff about the baker and the cake is a bit unsettling, though I’m sure it isn’t true – hope not anyway)…



…and I really should include something on this week’s horrific gun tragedy; be warned, though – you might find the video particularly unsettling, and You Tube may ask you to log in before viewing it (NSFW of course)…



…and if you didn’t think much of our ol’ buddy Vlad Putin before, my guess is that you REALLY won’t think much of him after you watch this (wonder if Former Commander Codpiece saw this when he supposedly looked into Putin’s “soul”? And by the way, the "Debunktion Junction" segment that followed was about Pat Roberts, Tim Scott and Nikki Haley protesting about Obama wanting terrorists to be moved from Guantanamo to detention facilities in Kansas and South Carolina...typical wingnut caterwauling - Maddow redeemed herself a bit with this report IMHO)...



…and Think Progress put up this video a little while ago on how The Donald’s supposed immigration policy is typically preposterous…



…also, Al Jazeera America brings us this interview with John Keller, a man who survived Katrina (which was beating the hell out of the Gulf coast about 10 years ago right now) and helped many others as well…



...and 40 years ago last Tuesday (ye Gods!), Bruce Springsteen released “Born To Run,” which, in addition to blowing everything else musically out of the water, as it were (he was on the cover of both Time and Newsweek after it came out), also saved his career since he was about to be dropped by Columbia Records (we now know how great his first two LPs, from those days of analog, actually were, but they weren’t considered that at the time) – all 8 tracks of “Born to Run” are great as far as I’m concerned, including this one.

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