Dela
This is an old but stirring tribute to Nelson Mandela by Johnny Clegg and friends. Howl on Nelson.http://youtu.be/...
View ArticleRIP with Woody, Pete
It's not often a legend reaches the end of his days on earth. I knew Pete Seeger was elderly already when I first became aware of him and the effects he had on the Union, Folk Music and Political...
View ArticleA Florida Governor's Race poll
On November 4, 2014, Florida voters can go to the polls to nominate Rick Scott / another Republican or a Democrat for the office of Governor. Although both primary winners might indeed be the forgone...
View ArticleNew Poll for Florida Gov.
The most recent poll I saw puts Governor /Alien Scott with a one point lead in a projected match-up with former Gov. Crist. I haven't seen any polling on a Nan Rich/Scott matchup. Nan is probably the...
View ArticleApologies to ericle
Frame 1: In his traditional role of siding with the mafiosofish whenever possible, Governor Crispy-Toast Christy-Blowfish came out flailing against legalizing cannabisgrass this week.Frame 2: While...
View ArticleWE DIDN'T KNOW
This is not he first time we’ve gone down the scary and dank road of fascism in Amerika and, if the education system continues to allow home-schooled idiots and science deniers to write the textbooks,...
View ArticleWither the loyal opposition
At some point in the development of our quaint little democratic experiment someone came up with the concept of the ‘loyal opposition.’ I believe it came up as a term along with the institution of...
View ArticleCubs win, Cubs win!
In need of even a brief respite from the number crunching, poll-watching and election fears, Chicagoans have reason to celebrate. The previous last time the Cubbies did it was the year “we dropped...
View ArticleBILL LANDS BARRY
Not much to say other than I hadn’t seen this posted yet and, hell, it made me misty eyed.xYouTube Video
View ArticlePutting on the Putin
As we all await the word on whether we still have a democracy or not, a few moments of much needed levity are available from the inestimable Randy Newman. As with his brilliant takedown of the last...
View ArticleEGGED
So, as I was mowing my lawn this morning, I noticed that one of our local intelligentsia had egged my car...I’m gonna take a wild ass guess here and say that my new Clinton and Murphy signs in the side...
View ArticleTWEETER/MONKEY MAN
Breaking news alerts from the Trump Twittersphere now make it onto the Bill Press show before the morning talking heads even begin chattering. No, all the US Intelligence agencies are wrong, lying or...
View ArticlePolitical Science
Apparently many Americans have never taken a Poli Sci course in their lives. Others, like me, actually majored in it. But, apparently, the only Political Science lesson Americanus Dumbass...
View ArticleLegend of a Mind
Ray Thomas, singer and flautist with space rockers The Moody Blues joins the growing list of My Generation rockers who have recently gone on to their eternal reward. Ray at least escaped the drug OD...
View ArticleRIP John Perry Barlow
Bob Weir's song-writing partner (not to mention Brent Mydland’s and Vince Welnick’s) and internet pioneerJohn Barlow passed away; may the black throated wind carry him to a place where the music never...
View ArticleRIP Maggie Roche
In the glut of hard bad news stories that fill all our lives these days, I missed the sad news of Maggie Roche’s passing. Maggie was the shy sensitive one who could barely look at a camera and...
View ArticleFL Senate passes gun bill
The Florida Senate by a vote of 20-18 passed a gun bill yesterday. The vote crossed party lines somewhat with 3 Dems joining 17 Republicans voting for a bill that bans bump stocks, raises the age of...
View ArticleToo dumb for suicide by TH
It is my pleasure as a sometime musician, sometime pundit and sometime explorer to find an artist, comedian or musician that actually has something clever to spout out. Such is the case with Tim...
View ArticleA Thousand Years
It is one of those sobering realities of modern politics that the rise and felling of the Alt Right is taking place with such devastating global consequences right here in the good old US of A and not...
View ArticleBittersweet Holidaze
This Thanksgiving day, my small family unit got together at a local restaurant to eat too much, reminisce and give thanks for both the new family additions provided by several of the young cousins in...
View ArticleFaux News on RBG today
From the “this is too scuzzy even for Faux News Dept.” was an egregious accidental error from the people that do the graphics at the dotards favorite network insinuating that RBG’s expiration date is...
View ArticleThe Dreamer
A typically brief musical blog with a current political theme from a long-time political activist (both Jackson and to a lesser extent, yours truly) with a song that touched me and puts a much softer...
View ArticlePush Polling GOPs "Jexodus" Wetdream
I like to answer surveys for fun and (tiny) profit. Suffice it to say I respond to a dozen or so “surveys” a week. Occasionally, my favorite sort of survey allows me in — a political push-poll....
View ArticleSteyer surveyed on horizon
I took an interesting political-survey today. After the usual party affiliation questions and wanting to know where I fell on their political spectrum, they asked who I would vote for if the primary...
View ArticleBo Rhap
Like most rock n roll fans, I enjoyed the recent biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” with it’s reasonably concise yet detailed view of Queen’s rise to the summit of rock n roll’s hierarchy. It was...
View ArticleOn Engaging Conservatives
Unlike many of my friends, I have been an unabashed radiclib, as Spiro used to call us, since my teens. My dad was a Scoop Jackson Conservadem who voted for Kennedy, Stephenson and Nixon; And I...
View ArticleLine up and die please (with poll)
While the governors, mayors and local leaders of many states, cities and municipalities are pulling out all the stops and doing everything they can to fight the spread of coronavirus COVID 19, one...
View ArticleStay Away
Anti-social never used to get a good rap….until now. But, being close can come with consequences as many people affected with some of the scourge viruses of our times (Covid-19, Ebola, HIV etc) will...
View ArticleC'mon Floriduh
There is a modicum of good news in Florida. The judges seem to be ready to scrap the whole poll tax idea as Orwellian and so two centuries ago. Most of the competitive elections are now actually...
View ArticleRansacking self
This is a cautionary tale unrelated to the usual music related themes I tend to favor. A younger family member has for nearly a decade been the caretaker for his now 91 year old mother. There have...
View ArticleWatchmen
What with Juneteenth +1 being the date chosen by the Turd Emperor to restart his racist, xenophobic passion plays in Tulsa OK, I am kind of surprised that HBO hasn’t chosen to rerun last year’s...
View ArticleBogus Boogaloo Bugaboo
Funny thing happened on the way to my preoperative hospital Covid-19 test. Along with half a dozen other folks, I found myself ensconced in the waiting room of my local hospital as the specter of...
View ArticleMAGA MANIACS
While perusing the morning silliness and insanity and stumping and checking out the overnight rallies and railing, I came upon this little gem which apparently spewed forth from an Omaha MAGAt. The...
View ArticleA Morning in America Playlist
Just a quick playlist to celebrate being able to breathe a bit easier.The first realization that feces and fan were about to collide.xxYouTube VideoSingers and poets searched the skies and grounds and...
View ArticleThe Covid Monitor Returns!
Despite a highly questionable police raid that stole her computer and phone that were undoubtedly filled with incriminating evidence about our wonderful governator’s incompetence , delusions and...
View ArticleRIP to a Mississippi "King"
The large guitarist/singer, a veritable Mountain of a man, has left us as another casualty of a year most of us will only celebrate one day of. Leslie West was 75 and did not recover from a heart...
View ArticleGerry Marsden has Ferried cross the Mersey
With a heavy heart I noticed another rocker from my youth has passed on. Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemaker has died from a heart disease. I guess, these days if Covid isn’t the killer we...
View ArticleRIP Rusty Young
Rusty Young, founding and longest lasting member of Poco has died at 75. With a career spanning from Buffalo Springfield thru the Covid-19 pandemic, Rusty’s voice, steel guitar, acoustic and electric...
View ArticleWhat is a song that is a 10 but no one knows it?
OK, I am cheating a bit today. A similar request on Twitter got me thinking that everyone has this great song that they love that hardly anyone else knows or remembers. I know I have quite a few tunes...
View Article#DeathSentence Dragged, Floridians Died
The short and sweet of it is that a state auditor general’s report makes public what everybody with eyes and sentience already knows: Florida manipulated, twisted, lied, harassed and in general let...
View ArticleRebekah Jones will face matt Gaetz
Brief diary to acknowledge that Rebekah Jones, newly reinstated just this Monday as allowed on the ballot, has been declared the winner in her Democratic primary and will now get to take on Beavis’s...
View ArticleInflation Adjusted
Somewhere in my vault of old cds, older tapes and ancient vinyl recordings I have a Firesign Theatre routine that highlight a TV ad where the omniscient narrator intones: “You’re not paying more,...
View ArticleRIP to the Killer
I had not seen another mention of this here, if I missed it, I apologize, but The Killeris no more. Rock ‘n’ roll father and icon Jerry Lee Lewis has followed the Brothers Everly, Chuck Berry, Bo...
View ArticleHappy Turkey Day
UPDATE: Thursday, Nov 24, 2022 · 5:41:32 PM +00:00·pholkiephredBaked some sour dough rye bread and pumpkin spice bread to go with….probably Chinese style take-out. Not up for the full press chef...
View ArticleHe hangs with the best people
Being alive and awake in Florida today requires either eyes in the back of your head or an ability to ignore much of what is happening around you. Our wonderful governor/presidential asspirant (sic)...
View ArticleSlava Ukraini in South Florida
The day started out on a real sour note. As I tried to turn on my PC to check in on Daily Kos, my games, and the world in general, my monitor continued down the road it has been declining down for a...
View ArticleThe Great Unwashed at Wally World
Well, sometimes when you run out of something or must have something NOW, the only winning option is a trek down to the ubiquitous local Wal Mart Wally World. I think it was picture frames for the...
View ArticleSlava Ukraini! Dog Day Afternoon
Back on February 23rd, 2022, after a bunch of background checks (!) and questions about whether I might or not be too old for a puppy, a local pet shelter finally approved me for an adoption of a cute...
View ArticleStanding With Ukraine
UPDATE: Sunday, Sep 24, 2023 · 6:43:22 PM +00:00·pholkiephredShowed him story today UPDATE: Sunday, Sep 24, 2023 · 5:09:33 PM +00:00·pholkiephredShowed him story todaySo, spouse came down with another...
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