Comments on: Open thread 3/20/24

By: Art+Deco

Art+Deco — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 05:17:44 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGDvDGE7zk

By: Jimmy J.

Jimmy J. — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 04:01:45 +0000

Testing. I’ve been unable to comment for several days. I hope this works. Changed my nom de internet from J.J. to Jimmy J.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 03:54:50 +0000

Riffing a bit more on the Outsider….

Back in the day, straights were straight and We Happy Few became Outsiders. It was beautiful.

Now everyone fancies themselves Outsiders speaking Truth to Power and Goodness to Evil. Or some such.

Cheapens it, you know.

By: huxley

huxley — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 03:19:31 +0000

Re: Steely Dan, “Deacon Blues”

Looking up “Deacon Blues” on wiki I find that the song is essentially a beatnik, “Beautiful Losers” hymn to the Outsider:
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Fagen gives credit to Norman Mailer as inspiration for the narrator’s persona:

[It] toyed with the cliché of the jazz musician as antihero. It was kind of a takeoff on that old essay by Norman Mailer, “The White Negro,” not to mention our lives up to that point. . . . the alienated white suburban kid thinks that if he learns how to play bebop, he’ll throw off the chains of repression and live the authentic life, unleash the wild seeds of art and passion and so on.

On the origin of the song’s name, Fagen says, it was inspired by football player Deacon Jones, as they like the sound of his name: “It also had two syllables, which was convenient, like ‘Crimson,'” The song, however, is really about “the ultimate outsider, the flip side of the dream, boy-o . . . call me Deacon Blues.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacon_Blues
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Call me Deacon Blues.

I lived by that myth for much of my youth. I don’t mean to dismiss it now. However, it seems so far away and non-applicable to my current life.

By: Oligonicella

Oligonicella — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 02:47:29 +0000

Tom Grey:
Copying is not stealing. If I stole your car, I’d have the car but you wouldn’t.
If I copy your car, or NFT, or special car, than I’d have that copy but you’d also have yours.

Copyright is not about money or objects. It’s about you stealing my right to determine the means of distribution of my works from me.

By: T J

T J — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 22:17:14 +0000

Dr Drew is LIVE interviewing Mike Benz — author of the forthcoming book “Weapons of Mass Deletion” covering the online censorship crisis.

Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden) is being called the “most important Free Speech case in the history of America.” Mike Benz – executive director of Foundation For Freedom Online – The US Supreme Court is hearing arguments over alleged pressure from federal officials to censor opposing voices on social media platforms during the COVID pandemic, under the guise of “fighting misinformation.” But when the people being censored are experts like Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, and Dr. Martin Kulldorff… who is really spreading misinformation?

Mike Benz is the founder of Foundation for Freedom Online, a free speech watchdog dedicated to restoring the promise of a free and open Internet. He is a former State Department cyber official in the Trump Administration, whose responsibilities included formulating and negotiating US foreign policy on international communications and information technology matters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvU-_rB5dws

By: Karmi

Karmi — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:35:50 +0000

I couldn’t begin to list the music I liked from 1964 to around 1980 – went to numerous live concerts during the 70’s. Went country sometimes after 1980, then back to rock, and to some new age stuff later. Hot Tuna was a favorite that a musician friend turned me onto. Never cared for rap, and not much of a music listener now. Was a fan of Rush Limbaugh and like this one he used to play: CARIBOU - Can't Do Without You The Who must’ve been one of my favorite bands – because most of the time I heard a song I would ask ‘who is that?!?!’ and was always amazed I didn’t know it was them. If I have a favorite song it might be from Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Inca Queen

By: huxley

huxley — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:54:01 +0000

Re: Steely Dan

Rufus et al.:

In the seventies I was stuck in the earnest singer-songwriter or prog-rock models. I couldn’t figure out Steely Dan. I could tell there was an immense amount of talent being brought to bear, but where it was coming from or going to, I couldn’t tell, and it bothered me. Nor was I getting the inside jokes, e.g. “Only a Fool Would Believe That” or Steely Dan’s name.

I’m less bothered by such things these days and I recognize Steely Dan’s brilliance, though I rarely think to cue the boys up. I do love “Deacon’s Blues.”

–Steely Dan, “Deacon’s Blues”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iac-vLq6tnY

By: om

om — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:37:05 +0000

The classic confrontation. In military jargon “a meeting engagement.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5R-rbzcEM8A&pp=ygURYmFtYmkgdnMgZ29kemlsbGE%3D

In the case of AOC, an ambush gone wrong, trapped in the kill zone, “on the X.”

By: T J

T J — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:31:26 +0000

Todd Young, R-Senator from Indiana, is a RINO.

Too many of ‘em. This herd needs harvesting….

The Washington Examiner via FreeRepublic
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4225530/posts

Digging into comments….
His Conservative Review Liberty rating is an “F” at 52.
https://libertyscore.conservativereview.com/todd-young