Comments on: More blackface trouble in Virginia

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 06:42:07 +0000

Molly: Yeah, the Beatles were something else.

Over the years I’ve heard from mothers how there came a magic day when their kids discovered the Beatles and then in the following weeks went through their Beatles phase as they frolicked through those songs.

Most of my teenage memories are indexed by the current Beatles album playing at the time.

By: om

om — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 05:05:10 +0000

Beatles, meh, whatever sinks your submarine. 😉

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 01:23:57 +0000

Huxley,
Nobody sits at the same table as the Beatles!

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 00:58:12 +0000

Re: Joni Mitchell. I listened to her in an interview a few years ago (before the stroke), and when the interviewer referred to her as ‘One of the 20th Century’s greatest female songwriters’ she laughed and said; ‘ONE of?’. I think the implication was that she felt she was THE greatest female songwriter of the 20th Century.

Molly Brown: I agree, at least in rock. I don’t know songwriters like Piaf and Simone and no doubt others well enough to put Mitchell over all. In rock the only possible peers I can come up with are Carole King, as you say, and Laura Nyro.

My problem with Mitchell is the chip she has on her shoulder when it comes to her place among the best male songwriters. She’s good, but I don’t think she sits at the same table as Bob Dylan and the Beatles.

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 10:08:07 +0000

@KyndyllG is mostly right – these are anti-stereotype jokes.
Where is talk about Animal House – Toga parties?
Northam? He should be in a movie, like … Blazing Saddles! (1974, still popular in the 80s)
… “I’m gonna shoot the nigger!” says the black sheriff, pointing his own pistol at his head, holding himself hostage.
Now it’s a firing offense if a white person says the n-word (but it’s ok for blacks — a clear racist double standard).

The rules need to change back to accept free speech AS offensive speech.
Reps should be constantly complaining about the rules, and the hypocrisy of the Dems at not enforcing them.

By: om

om — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 07:55:13 +0000

Mollly, Huxley, and Richard

Listen to her song “Little Green” about the daughter Joni gave up for adoption and contrast the current sacrament of abortion practiced by the left who shout their “choice.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIzJnBWovOs

By: Julie near Chicago

Julie near Chicago — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 07:43:40 +0000

Aesop,

What a great story about the rescuer of Klansmen, Daryl Davis. Thanks!

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 07:18:50 +0000

Huxley and Richard,
Re: Joni Mitchell. I listened to her in an interview a few years ago (before the stroke), and when the interviewer referred to her as ‘One of the 20th Century’s greatest female songwriters’ she laughed and said; ‘ONE of?’. I think the implication was that she felt she was THE greatest female songwriter of the 20th Century. Now I am a hardcore Joni fan (agree with the Hejira point), but that took me a bit aback until I gave it some consideration. But really, does anyone come close to her? For both quality and quantity? Maybe Carole King? And King had songwriting partners.
Weird Joni incident. I was with my husband on business trip to London in the early ’00’s. One day while my husband was at meetings I bought a Joni biography and began reading it. What could be better – tea and crumpets and Joni. And that very evening at dinner I looked up as she walked in the door of the restaurant, and sat down at the next table. I thought I was hallucinating! I asked my husband if I was imagining it. But no, it was diva Joan herself – holding court with a table full of starry eyed young music types. But even then it was obvious she was not in good health.
Yes, be well, Joni, be well.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 07:01:55 +0000

This analysis appealed to me because I took several courses in Game Theory in college.
I actually got my Bachelor’s degree in a cross-discipline major (aka catch-all for courses that didn’t really fit in any other discipline) that was called “Mathematical Sciences” and included lots of “practical math” (not mathematics proper) and computer programming (not engineering), and later I kind of specialized in that sort of thing when I got my MA in Government (my alma mater at the time did not dignify us with the moniker Political Science).

https://thebulwark.com/the-awful-game-theory-behind-ralph-northam/

Let’s stipulate that Governor Ralph Northam is a bad person—or at least a person who, as an adult, did something really stupid and hurtful by dressing in blackface and/or Klan garb. Let’s also stipulate that plenty of Democrats want him to step down for totally valid reasons. The real question is, according to his own interests, should Northam stay on as governor?

And the answer is: Yes. 100 percent. Yes.

Keep in mind that when we say “should” we’re not talking about morality or cosmic justice. By any normal standards of behavior, of course Northam “should” resign. But America’s politics no longer hew to any real standards of behavior. And politicians have learned that, when facing an existential crisis, brazening it out gives them at least a 50-50 chance of survival.
…
So if Northam were to leave voluntarily, he’s screwed. The only thing he’d get in return would be the serenity of having done the right thing. For normal people, that might count for a lot. For people who think blackface and the Klan are jokes and that infanticide is okay, maybe not so much.

On the other hand, if Northam looks to recent history, he’ll see a whole bunch of guys who, when faced with sure political death, outlasted the storm.
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Northam just has to go so far that Republicans stop attacking him for the blackface and start attacking him for taking radical policy positions. This won’t be hard.

It’s not a fool-proof strategy. Larry Craig stuck it out, but then retired, because re-election was impossible. But when disgraced politicians allow themselves to get muscled aside by the party establishment—think Jack Ryan and Al Franken and Eric Greitens—they get nothing. And what is the Democratic party going to do to Northam? He can’t run for reelection. They can’t remove him from office. And if he goes hard enough to the left, they’ll have to support him against the evil Republicans.

You know, it’s a binary choice and all that.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 06:38:27 +0000

Don’t forget about the guy in the middle of the two clowns. It turns out that Fairfax’s accuser made her allegations public over a year ago, and the Democrats suppressed them; I started looking when I read that Fairfax lawyered up (with Kavanaugh’s counsel – heh) in January 2018.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justin-fairfax-accuser-told-house-democrat-more-than-a-year-ago-about-sex-assault-claim

A Virginia Democrat in Congress has known about the sexual assault allegation leveled against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax for more than a year, according to a report.

That is in addition to the WaPo reporter who deep-sixed the story .

Note: Tyson is now being represented by Ford’s lawyers.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/02/justin-fairfaxs-accuser-speaks.php

William “Bill” McGill • 7 hours ago
Let me see if I’m reading this correctly:

Ms. Tyson is fellow at Stanford’s “Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.”

Ms. Blasey-Ford is (was?) adjunct faculty at Stanford’s “Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.”

These two academic departments at Stanford have to be somewhat related, no? And if so, ain’t that a coincidence?