Friday Stuff

(Gonna try to rev this up again a bit - I also posted over here.)

Yeah, that foreign policy “genius” Gramps McCain is shouting “get off my lawn” again (here – just sad at this point)…



…and I guess Stephen Colbert’s commentary is “What Is And What Should Never Be” (here - yeah I know, it’s old)…

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…and RIP Ruby Dee…



…and as long as we’re talking about Spirit (re: the Colbert piece), I should note that they wrote some eco-friendly songs including this one, but as far as I’m concerned, the line “the world’s a can for your fresh garbage” fits McCain to a “T” (returning to the "hippy, dippy" '60s here).

Wednesday Stuff

Downtime will probably take place starting tomorrow for real – not sure how long yet.

In the meantime, I give Rachel Maddow credit for overturning the dreaded corporate media conventional narrative on that sleazy weasel Eric Cantor’s primary loss last night – maybe the voters out there aren’t as enamored with congressional Repugs overall as the news organizations with initials for names keep telling us…



…and here is Part One of Jon Stewart’s take down of Fix Noise in particular over the Bowe Bergdahl stuff (more here)…

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…and here is Part Two…

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…and we experienced a very positive life event with the teenaged one tonight; congrats to him and all grads in his class – I’ve had this song in mind all day concerning his now-happily-departed educational institution.

Tuesday Stuff

(I got a bit of a reprieve, so here are some more videos.)

And what a stroke of luck, because I can put up this video in response to this - HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!



...and yes, the silly season is truly upon us (and let’s not forget this about most of the people complaining – and it sounds like Alex Wagner is trying to stir the pot over the latest faux scandal also…please)…



Update 6/12/14: And let's not forget that this was going on while Number 42 inhabited An Oval Office - the legal costs would have been enough to drown, so to speak, most people once and for all.

...meanwhile, for a story that actually matters, I give you this...



…and I gotta tell ya’ that I really like the sound of this band.

Monday Stuff

This took place 60 years ago today – let’s never forget how important a moment this truly was…



…and former Reaganite Bruce Bartlett is my hero for this, and I love his matter-of-fact delivery (and that “I” word is so, SOOO important – of course, the Repugs are only talking about it now because most of them are running for re-election – if you mention it to them this time next year, you’ll only hear the sound of crickets)…



…and even though this is definitely NSFW (though the naughty words are bleeped), I still think this is genius stuff from John Oliver; almost busted a gut during the last two minutes (and he must have been successful – somehow I missed this until yesterday)…



…and happy belated 70th birthday to Boz Scaggs.



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