Sunday Stuff

Is our politicians learning – this is aimed at NYC and Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio, but as the Daily Kos poster noted, it could be aimed everywhere else in this country too, including our beloved commonwealth of PA…



…and to commemorate the 25th World AIDS Day (since I haven’t been able to find any video from our news organizations with initials for names yet), I give you this scene from “And The Band Played On,” starring Matthew Modine, a 1993 production based on the book by Randy Shilts, showing some thoroughly appropriate outrage before the disease became basically a pandemic…



…and I thought this was a nice meditation on writer C.S. Lewis by Martin Bashir, who we also lost on 11/22/63…



…and yep, time for more seasonal stuff – “you’d better not pout, you’d better not cry, you’d better not violate your parole…”