The greatest pop duo ever. 2nd place goes to the Everly brothers.
I sure fell hard for S&G when I was a teenager. “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme” was my favorite and still is. I played it over and over, while studying.
Harmony. Lyrics. Magic.
Simon’s guitar is fantastic too.
The New Yorker sheds light on the events leading up to Kamala’s run:
______________________________________________
Biden was calling from isolation, both literal and political; he had spent the previous night socially distanced at his vacation house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, recovering from COVID and absorbing the reality that he had lost the confidence of the Democratic Party. Twenty-four days earlier, Biden’s addled performance in a televised debate with Donald Trump had sparked a frantic effort to replace him at the top of the ticket. On the phone, Biden told Harris that he was ending his bid for reëlection. More to the point, he said that he would be endorsing her as the Presidential nominee.…
By the time Biden announced his withdrawal, that Sunday afternoon, a scramble was already under way, largely out of public view. Bakari Sellers, a former South Carolina state representative who helped Harris secure the nomination, told me that her team saw value in moving swiftly. “We weren’t going to do this bullshit that other people were asking for,” he said. In his view, an open convention was a way to “skip over Kamala.”….
David Axelrod, who was the chief strategist for both of Obama’s Presidential campaigns, told me, “There was an argument that she would be strengthened by a competition, but she showed a mastery of the internal politics, which is one test of a potential candidate. People respond to competence, and that was a very competent operation.” He compared it to a rapid military strike. “She didn’t get handed this nomination,” he said. “She took it.”
So Biden did pre-emptively endorse Harris, but then she and her team swung into action aggressively to lobby party leaders to skip an open convention and allow her to take the nomination.
Just another open-thread comment about something I read somewhere else.
About a month ago, three economists published a paper about their survey measuring the extent of AI LLM use in the US. (AI: artificial intelligence; LLM: large language model; aka chatbot) It turns out lots of people are using LLM’s, and their use hasn’t been limited to young techies. The authors, unsurprisingly, think that this will be important for the economy.
There are about twenty pages of text and graphics, and about another twenty pages of appendices. For those in a hurry, the charts and graphs contain a lot of information.
“Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially important new technology, but its impact on the economy depends on the speed and intensity of adoption. This paper reports results from the first nationally representative U.S. survey of generative AI adoption at work and at home. In August 2024, 39 percent of the U.S. population age 18-64 used generative AI. More than 24 percent of workers used it at least once in the week prior to being surveyed, and nearly one in nine used it every workday. Historical data on usage and mass-market product launches suggest that U.S. adoption of generative AI has been faster than adoption of the personal computer and the internet. Generative AI is a general purpose technology, in the sense that it is used in a wide range of occupations and job tasks at work and at home.”
P.S. This has nothing to do with the three economists’ survey, but I can’t resist adding a link (https://tinyurl.com/46uk6r4r) to a short clip of a conversation between a young techie and a Tesla robot. The clip ends with the techie asking “What’s the hardest thing about being a robot?” I can sympathize.
huxley: And she’s the one campaigning on “Save Our Democracy!”
like skynet in the 2003 iteration, there is something that makes me wary of chat gbt, as we have discovered it is capable of deception in the presentation of data, complete with fake footnotes,
wow that yawker piece is hagiography worthy of procopius, before he turned on justinian, are they incapable of telling truth, rhetorical question,
for such an insubstantial and dangerous candidate, they are pushing at us, with the most ridiculous memes, ‘i have to hide my vote from my husband’ really that is a hot take off the griddle, the girl from westmount, the toniest neighborhood in montreal, good grief there is so much stupid out there,
I recall Joe Dimaggio’s rejoinder to that famous s & G
song, ‘what do you mean I’m still here’
I suppose they wanted approval for all the gripes, of
that generation,
THE GREATEST MOMENT of audience/performer interaction EVER ! Plus it’s the best S&G song!
My curly haired little girl used to ice skate–did many, many 0400 (4AM) mornings. But, then one morning she was practicing to this song–
“There was an argument that she would be strengthened by a competition, but she showed a mastery of the internal politics, which is one test of a potential candidate. People respond to competence, and that was a very competent operation.” He compared it to a rapid military strike. “She didn’t get handed this nomination,” he said. “She took it.” — from huxley & The New Yorker
That’s interesting. Particularly, the bit about “internal politics.” I suppose we can all imagine what that might entail, but the unknown details of it are a real curiosity to me. Increasingly, I tend to see these “behind closed doors” aspects of politics or especially Dem politics as a variety of organized crime syndicate operations. A military strike indeed!
So when the quote refers to competence, competence at what exactly? Threatening, bullying, or bribing people?
Love S&G music but am repulsed by video of Garfunkel. I find him smarmy, pretentious, and condescending. Not rational, I don’t recall seeing him interviewed, so just my perception of the vibe he exudes.
If Harris grabbed the nomination as Huxley’s New Yorker post says then I’d say that is one of the few real accomplishments of her time in public and politics.
What happened to October?
It was a couple weeks ago, that our weather shift happened, but it’s always a bit of a shock.
In central coast CA, we get these Sept. or Oct. Santa Anna weather patterns that bring warm or hot dry air in. 85 degrees and cloudless skys are typical. But because it’s mid. October, when it ends, a day or two later, we experience damp 58 degree highs and grey skys. Ouch!
she was the least articulate of any of the candidates, she probably still has stitches from when Gabbard, gutted her in the 2019 debates, largely from the left,and her campaign management skills are non existent
one assumes a whitmer who follows a similar program, would make the arguments more effectively, what is inspiring in a dark sense, is their willingness to close ranks like a phalanx on the important issues, because it’s about power and control
I recall the classic SNL sketch around 1986, where they have a sort of origin story, in how they sold their soul to the devil, in the person of jon lovitz and some 30 years later, they are trapped in an elevator listening to the ‘song of silence*
* they were successful for a spell, but I don’t think they have been as enduring as say the rolling stones,which have still toured in recent memory, i’m not drawing any implications,except perhaps’sympathy for the devil’ is a little too knowing
Getting back to the Central Park event with Simon and Garfunkel. Here is the entire concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2bd1zp_q6Y
Bridge over starts about 53 minutes into the concert. At 55.30 minutes in you can see the moment when Garfunkel knows he has the audience! Before that he looked a little uncertain. The crowd was so vast.
Jobs report for October is dismal– 12,000 jobs added, 40,000 of which were government jobs. You do the math.
Personal debt is rising. Sentiment on the economy is dour.
Is the glass half full or…
Two networks..two different takes.
My take, the economy doesn’t matter as long as the stock market rises. What’s sad is traders know what the state of the economy is. They’re riding the Titanic till the end, or until the last second to climb in the lifeboat– only the lifeboats may all be gone.
Ok, ok– I’m bearish and it might only mean a recession. Only with the new normal $2 trillion deficits– what kind of spending would it take for the government to stimulate us out of the next recession?
This will be a landslide, outside the margin of fortification.
Notice the difference in perspectives on the illegals effect on jobs.
the stock market is a simulacrum of the real economy, there really has been little aggregate economic growth, and downgrades in various sectors that for example went all in on EV’s, I’m looking at you Ford Motor Company,
now something like that tax on unrealized income, lord love a waterfowl, could cause a cascade effect, but they don’t care,
it’s like the famed Malabar front in 1984, that was so disastrous, they had to memory hole the whole thing, our whole afghan incursion seems to have been on that wave length, except for the initial incursion, up to say Tora Bora, the Taliban kept increasing their territory until they had the country surrounded,
that is not to slight the brave efforts of the men and women, who gave it their all,
but in the final analysis, the Taliban emirate won, and were gifted with an arsenal
Miguel- the donor of all those mega-billions of dollars’ worth military equipment, and our Bagram AFB in Afghanistan is our esteemed President Biden.
One really has to keep one’s head in the clouds to sustain the alleged value of our two-party system when one, D, is authoritarian and our C-in-C, a D, is a dolt.
The future without a pro-Trump GOP party is dismal.
Does anyone seriously believe that the Democrats would have or could have had a nationwide primary a few weeks before the convention? Or that an open convention would have produced any other candidate but Harris? Would another credible candidate have had time to mount campaigns for the convention and then for the presidency? Would anyone with a real chance at winning the presidency throw it away on being a last minute replacement? There wasn’t going to be a primary or an open convention. Harris was going to get the nomination. She already had a team working on the campaign. If anyone competent was on that team, all Harris had to do was keep out of the way and not do or say anything stupid. So it’s no tribute to her skills and ability that she got the nomination.
well I look at the end result, over the span of 20 years, and I see great waste of the finest of our youth, on this field that kipling spoke off in ‘rithmetic on the frontier’ more than a hundred years ago,
yes afghanistan was an engagement of necessity not choice, but we certainly didn’t treat it that way, we refused to understand this was a proxy war by the pakistanis including the boys from aabpara
no one! stood down after this calamity, punctuated by abbey gate, the only reprimand was for the lieutenant colonel who dared call attention to the matter,
and these Colonel and General Blimps say without a interval of self reflection,
lets go on against a nuclear power, well that can’t possibly go wrong can it,
these are the same sort that seem diligent in turning their troops against our fellow citizens because wrong think
So the Oct surprise was we made it through Oct.
Ann, thanks for the link of the Simon and Garfunkel concert @ 1:05.
I liked Simon’s early work more than when he went solo– though I did like Graceland.
From the notes: …free benefit concert on the Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City, where the pair performed in front of an audience reported at the time as 500.000 people. Later estimates determined that the maximum number of people who could fit in the park space was 48.500.
Hmmm. That’s a pretty big discrepancy in attendance.
I think the October surprise !was john kelleys plaintive confession to the Atlantic, that blew away like one of those ersatz ACME kits in the road runner cartoons, or the latest sketchy allegation against trump by another dubious gal whose specifics, were eviscerated by Jordan Schachtel, but there is so muchchaff thrown up in these campaigns, which follow that shakespeare line
‘full of sound and fury, told by an idiot’ this comes from most magazines and newspapers and many social media accounts,Elon has tried to prune some of this,
to some effect, this is not only a circumstance on this end of the pond, the British papers are nearly as full of dross,
@abraxas – Don’t forget that Harris had one hell of a dowry. Interpretations of election finance laws were that all the money donated to the “Biden-Harris” campaign could not be used by any other candidate if that campaign folded. It was added that if Harris stayed in the hunt, she could use the money. So if someone other than Harris was the candidate, all those donated millions were gone, and a new fundraising campaign had to happen. The fate of the earlier money was murky at that point. “Follow the money”. 🙂
As to other candidates, they are political predators and not dumb. They all knew Joe was addled and they had “secret” campaigns on the drawing board so they could jump in when he cratered. The hope was an open convention where they could grab the nomination. Harris controlled the big bucks, the “mother’s milk of politics”. QED.
he was always addled fairly functional, but they were willing to pretend otherwise,
remember the deep fakes* because it showed his
decrepitude, but they always have the same four notes,
‘democracy abortion,
dezinforma and probably the eternal caucasus struggle,
probably also go Hamas in sotto voce
what the don’t care about, is crime inflation our declining military readiness,the reconquista, or the
al hijra your choice,,
I recall Joe Dimaggio’s rejoinder to that famous s & G song, ‘what do you mean I’m still here’
==
Per Joseph Epstein, he said, “I haven’t gone anywhere. I’m employed”. I used to have that as a screen saver.
That’s interesting. Particularly, the bit [Axelrod’s mention of] “internal politics.” I suppose we can all imagine what that might entail, but the unknown details of it are a real curiosity to me. Increasingly, I tend to see these “behind closed doors” aspects of politics or especially Dem politics as a variety of organized crime syndicate operations. A military strike indeed!
TonnyJay:
Yes. Well.
Once upon a time, as a result of the 1972 McGovern insurgency, strong measures were taken to make the Democrat process more responsive to the Demands of the People.
No more smoke-filled rooms.
Unless the Right People don’t get to make the Right Decisions for everyone else.
They’ve straightened that out.
It’s too late for an October Surprise.
Thank goodness. We’ve moved on from that.
Now. What about the November Surprise?
Have been in church this evening, for All Saints, praying once again for our country, and for no violence.
Kate:
Our church has a prayer service tomorrow morning for the country and the election. There is a mixture of conservatives and liberals in the congregation as was shown by the response to 10/7/2023. I haven’t decided if I will attend or not.
How is it that music or a given (set of?) songs can be played or sung over and over, over a multi year (or decade/ century?) span, and everyone agrees with the value of listening to them; …
whereas if someone repeats a speech more than about three times, it “get’s old quick”?
“I have a dream!”
“A time for choosing…”
“Don’t ask what your …”
Similarly, but not quite so much, for poetry??
I tell people I quit listening to pop music when Simon & Garfunkel broke up.
It’s almost true.
Hard to believe they did that huge catalog of amazing music in only 5 years.
They had started singing together as kids in 1953 (per Wikipedia) but were “big time” from 1966-1970.
R2L: Interesting question.
@ Cornflour > “It turns out lots of people are using LLM’s, and their use hasn’t been limited to young techies. The authors, unsurprisingly, think that this will be important for the economy.”
Here is a use by an old not-techie that might be important for the education department — not that anyone in the Democrat DOE will object to what was done.
Illinois creates snitch line to report acts of “hate”. https://ilstophate.org/
I note that age is not listed as an identity targeted by “hate”.
I’m Big Brother and I approved this program.
The Obama Machine by Michael Lind
The ‘new foundation’ party of Obama, which, despite the legacy name ‘Democrats,’ is a new national party that at the same time is the first national machine.
At a particularly difficult time in my life, in the Army, not married, not deployed, I would come to my quarters from “work” and start one of my several S&G tapes. Every night. The big search radar put a “ping” in every few seconds, but I got used to it.
Since then, I’ll take a little S&G from time to time, recognize their genius, but don’t need some.
Surprised they faded, unless their thing was too narrow to be continued. Urban folk sliding over to thoughtful pop would have seemed to offer a good deal of space.
Their relationship went south.
Way, way south.
Happens.
– – – – – – – –
“… The New Yorker sheds light on the events leading up to Kamala’s run…”
So remind me: How much credibility does The New Yorker have (ESPECIALLY when it comes to supporting AND PROTECTING “Biden”)????
Richard Aubrey:
Simon and Garfunkel didn’t fade, they split up acrimoniously. They both went on to solo careers but Simon was far more successful than Garfunkel when solo.
The Dem playbook hasn’t changed. Their message has changed from Biden saying “they’re going to put you all back in chains” to Harris saying “Trump would ban abortion, limit access to birth control, put IVF treatments at risk and force states to monitor women’s pregnancies”. Same message, different audience.
Despicable!
Did it work back in 2012? Will it work in 2024?
Did it work back in January 6 when yall said it was q/maga insurrecting? Will it work in 2025 jan 6?
neo
I knew they’d split but hadn’t heard them, or much about them, for some time before that. Probably too busy otherwise. But that would be why I thought they’d faded first.
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The greatest pop duo ever. 2nd place goes to the Everly brothers.
I sure fell hard for S&G when I was a teenager. “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme” was my favorite and still is. I played it over and over, while studying.
Harmony. Lyrics. Magic.
Simon’s guitar is fantastic too.
The New Yorker sheds light on the events leading up to Kamala’s run:
______________________________________________
Biden was calling from isolation, both literal and political; he had spent the previous night socially distanced at his vacation house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, recovering from COVID and absorbing the reality that he had lost the confidence of the Democratic Party. Twenty-four days earlier, Biden’s addled performance in a televised debate with Donald Trump had sparked a frantic effort to replace him at the top of the ticket. On the phone, Biden told Harris that he was ending his bid for reëlection. More to the point, he said that he would be endorsing her as the Presidential nominee.…
By the time Biden announced his withdrawal, that Sunday afternoon, a scramble was already under way, largely out of public view. Bakari Sellers, a former South Carolina state representative who helped Harris secure the nomination, told me that her team saw value in moving swiftly. “We weren’t going to do this bullshit that other people were asking for,” he said. In his view, an open convention was a way to “skip over Kamala.”….
David Axelrod, who was the chief strategist for both of Obama’s Presidential campaigns, told me, “There was an argument that she would be strengthened by a competition, but she showed a mastery of the internal politics, which is one test of a potential candidate. People respond to competence, and that was a very competent operation.” He compared it to a rapid military strike. “She didn’t get handed this nomination,” he said. “She took it.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/10/21/kamala-harris-ascent
______________________________________________
So Biden did pre-emptively endorse Harris, but then she and her team swung into action aggressively to lobby party leaders to skip an open convention and allow her to take the nomination.
Just another open-thread comment about something I read somewhere else.
About a month ago, three economists published a paper about their survey measuring the extent of AI LLM use in the US. (AI: artificial intelligence; LLM: large language model; aka chatbot) It turns out lots of people are using LLM’s, and their use hasn’t been limited to young techies. The authors, unsurprisingly, think that this will be important for the economy.
There are about twenty pages of text and graphics, and about another twenty pages of appendices. For those in a hurry, the charts and graphs contain a lot of information.
Here’s a link: https://tinyurl.com/y5vupvcn
Here’s the abstract:
“Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially important new technology, but its impact on the economy depends on the speed and intensity of adoption. This paper reports results from the first nationally representative U.S. survey of generative AI adoption at work and at home. In August 2024, 39 percent of the U.S. population age 18-64 used generative AI. More than 24 percent of workers used it at least once in the week prior to being surveyed, and nearly one in nine used it every workday. Historical data on usage and mass-market product launches suggest that U.S. adoption of generative AI has been faster than adoption of the personal computer and the internet. Generative AI is a general purpose technology, in the sense that it is used in a wide range of occupations and job tasks at work and at home.”
P.S. This has nothing to do with the three economists’ survey, but I can’t resist adding a link (https://tinyurl.com/46uk6r4r) to a short clip of a conversation between a young techie and a Tesla robot. The clip ends with the techie asking “What’s the hardest thing about being a robot?” I can sympathize.
huxley: And she’s the one campaigning on “Save Our Democracy!”
like skynet in the 2003 iteration, there is something that makes me wary of chat gbt, as we have discovered it is capable of deception in the presentation of data, complete with fake footnotes,
wow that yawker piece is hagiography worthy of procopius, before he turned on justinian, are they incapable of telling truth, rhetorical question,
for such an insubstantial and dangerous candidate, they are pushing at us, with the most ridiculous memes, ‘i have to hide my vote from my husband’ really that is a hot take off the griddle, the girl from westmount, the toniest neighborhood in montreal, good grief there is so much stupid out there,
I recall Joe Dimaggio’s rejoinder to that famous s & G
song, ‘what do you mean I’m still here’
I suppose they wanted approval for all the gripes, of
that generation,
THE GREATEST MOMENT of audience/performer interaction EVER ! Plus it’s the best S&G song!
My curly haired little girl used to ice skate–did many, many 0400 (4AM) mornings. But, then one morning she was practicing to this song–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=963-jtAdg48
Please ignore the demo political ad if it shows up–
“There was an argument that she would be strengthened by a competition, but she showed a mastery of the internal politics, which is one test of a potential candidate. People respond to competence, and that was a very competent operation.” He compared it to a rapid military strike. “She didn’t get handed this nomination,” he said. “She took it.” — from huxley & The New Yorker
That’s interesting. Particularly, the bit about “internal politics.” I suppose we can all imagine what that might entail, but the unknown details of it are a real curiosity to me. Increasingly, I tend to see these “behind closed doors” aspects of politics or especially Dem politics as a variety of organized crime syndicate operations. A military strike indeed!
So when the quote refers to competence, competence at what exactly? Threatening, bullying, or bribing people?
Love S&G music but am repulsed by video of Garfunkel. I find him smarmy, pretentious, and condescending. Not rational, I don’t recall seeing him interviewed, so just my perception of the vibe he exudes.
If Harris grabbed the nomination as Huxley’s New Yorker post says then I’d say that is one of the few real accomplishments of her time in public and politics.
What happened to October?
It was a couple weeks ago, that our weather shift happened, but it’s always a bit of a shock.
In central coast CA, we get these Sept. or Oct. Santa Anna weather patterns that bring warm or hot dry air in. 85 degrees and cloudless skys are typical. But because it’s mid. October, when it ends, a day or two later, we experience damp 58 degree highs and grey skys. Ouch!
she was the least articulate of any of the candidates, she probably still has stitches from when Gabbard, gutted her in the 2019 debates, largely from the left,and her campaign management skills are non existent
one assumes a whitmer who follows a similar program, would make the arguments more effectively, what is inspiring in a dark sense, is their willingness to close ranks like a phalanx on the important issues, because it’s about power and control
I recall the classic SNL sketch around 1986, where they have a sort of origin story, in how they sold their soul to the devil, in the person of jon lovitz and some 30 years later, they are trapped in an elevator listening to the ‘song of silence*
* they were successful for a spell, but I don’t think they have been as enduring as say the rolling stones,which have still toured in recent memory, i’m not drawing any implications,except perhaps’sympathy for the devil’ is a little too knowing
Getting back to the Central Park event with Simon and Garfunkel. Here is the entire concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2bd1zp_q6Y
Bridge over starts about 53 minutes into the concert. At 55.30 minutes in you can see the moment when Garfunkel knows he has the audience! Before that he looked a little uncertain. The crowd was so vast.
Jobs report for October is dismal– 12,000 jobs added, 40,000 of which were government jobs. You do the math.
Personal debt is rising. Sentiment on the economy is dour.
Is the glass half full or…
Two networks..two different takes.
My take, the economy doesn’t matter as long as the stock market rises. What’s sad is traders know what the state of the economy is. They’re riding the Titanic till the end, or until the last second to climb in the lifeboat– only the lifeboats may all be gone.
Ok, ok– I’m bearish and it might only mean a recession. Only with the new normal $2 trillion deficits– what kind of spending would it take for the government to stimulate us out of the next recession?
This will be a landslide, outside the margin of fortification.
Notice the difference in perspectives on the illegals effect on jobs.
Charles Payne issues intimidating warning on US economy: ‘Be prepared for a recession’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgUvHIHeiEg
Goldman Sachs’ Jan Hatzius: jobs report is ‘noisy’ with mixed impact from hurricanes and strikes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVgJ8l1w0Qs
the stock market is a simulacrum of the real economy, there really has been little aggregate economic growth, and downgrades in various sectors that for example went all in on EV’s, I’m looking at you Ford Motor Company,
now something like that tax on unrealized income, lord love a waterfowl, could cause a cascade effect, but they don’t care,
it’s like the famed Malabar front in 1984, that was so disastrous, they had to memory hole the whole thing, our whole afghan incursion seems to have been on that wave length, except for the initial incursion, up to say Tora Bora, the Taliban kept increasing their territory until they had the country surrounded,
that is not to slight the brave efforts of the men and women, who gave it their all,
but in the final analysis, the Taliban emirate won, and were gifted with an arsenal
Miguel- the donor of all those mega-billions of dollars’ worth military equipment, and our Bagram AFB in Afghanistan is our esteemed President Biden.
One really has to keep one’s head in the clouds to sustain the alleged value of our two-party system when one, D, is authoritarian and our C-in-C, a D, is a dolt.
The future without a pro-Trump GOP party is dismal.
Does anyone seriously believe that the Democrats would have or could have had a nationwide primary a few weeks before the convention? Or that an open convention would have produced any other candidate but Harris? Would another credible candidate have had time to mount campaigns for the convention and then for the presidency? Would anyone with a real chance at winning the presidency throw it away on being a last minute replacement? There wasn’t going to be a primary or an open convention. Harris was going to get the nomination. She already had a team working on the campaign. If anyone competent was on that team, all Harris had to do was keep out of the way and not do or say anything stupid. So it’s no tribute to her skills and ability that she got the nomination.
well I look at the end result, over the span of 20 years, and I see great waste of the finest of our youth, on this field that kipling spoke off in ‘rithmetic on the frontier’ more than a hundred years ago,
yes afghanistan was an engagement of necessity not choice, but we certainly didn’t treat it that way, we refused to understand this was a proxy war by the pakistanis including the boys from aabpara
no one! stood down after this calamity, punctuated by abbey gate, the only reprimand was for the lieutenant colonel who dared call attention to the matter,
and these Colonel and General Blimps say without a interval of self reflection,
lets go on against a nuclear power, well that can’t possibly go wrong can it,
these are the same sort that seem diligent in turning their troops against our fellow citizens because wrong think
So the Oct surprise was we made it through Oct.
Ann, thanks for the link of the Simon and Garfunkel concert @ 1:05.
I liked Simon’s early work more than when he went solo– though I did like Graceland.
From the notes: …free benefit concert on the Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City, where the pair performed in front of an audience reported at the time as 500.000 people. Later estimates determined that the maximum number of people who could fit in the park space was 48.500.
Hmmm. That’s a pretty big discrepancy in attendance.
I think the October surprise !was john kelleys plaintive confession to the Atlantic, that blew away like one of those ersatz ACME kits in the road runner cartoons, or the latest sketchy allegation against trump by another dubious gal whose specifics, were eviscerated by Jordan Schachtel, but there is so muchchaff thrown up in these campaigns, which follow that shakespeare line
‘full of sound and fury, told by an idiot’ this comes from most magazines and newspapers and many social media accounts,Elon has tried to prune some of this,
to some effect, this is not only a circumstance on this end of the pond, the British papers are nearly as full of dross,
@abraxas – Don’t forget that Harris had one hell of a dowry. Interpretations of election finance laws were that all the money donated to the “Biden-Harris” campaign could not be used by any other candidate if that campaign folded. It was added that if Harris stayed in the hunt, she could use the money. So if someone other than Harris was the candidate, all those donated millions were gone, and a new fundraising campaign had to happen. The fate of the earlier money was murky at that point. “Follow the money”. 🙂
As to other candidates, they are political predators and not dumb. They all knew Joe was addled and they had “secret” campaigns on the drawing board so they could jump in when he cratered. The hope was an open convention where they could grab the nomination. Harris controlled the big bucks, the “mother’s milk of politics”. QED.
he was always addled fairly functional, but they were willing to pretend otherwise,
remember the deep fakes* because it showed his
decrepitude, but they always have the same four notes,
‘democracy abortion,
dezinforma and probably the eternal caucasus struggle,
probably also go Hamas in sotto voce
what the don’t care about, is crime inflation our declining military readiness,the reconquista, or the
al hijra your choice,,
I recall Joe Dimaggio’s rejoinder to that famous s & G song, ‘what do you mean I’m still here’
==
Per Joseph Epstein, he said, “I haven’t gone anywhere. I’m employed”. I used to have that as a screen saver.
That’s interesting. Particularly, the bit [Axelrod’s mention of] “internal politics.” I suppose we can all imagine what that might entail, but the unknown details of it are a real curiosity to me. Increasingly, I tend to see these “behind closed doors” aspects of politics or especially Dem politics as a variety of organized crime syndicate operations. A military strike indeed!
TonnyJay:
Yes. Well.
Once upon a time, as a result of the 1972 McGovern insurgency, strong measures were taken to make the Democrat process more responsive to the Demands of the People.
No more smoke-filled rooms.
Unless the Right People don’t get to make the Right Decisions for everyone else.
They’ve straightened that out.
It’s too late for an October Surprise.
Thank goodness. We’ve moved on from that.
Now. What about the November Surprise?
Have been in church this evening, for All Saints, praying once again for our country, and for no violence.
Kate:
Our church has a prayer service tomorrow morning for the country and the election. There is a mixture of conservatives and liberals in the congregation as was shown by the response to 10/7/2023. I haven’t decided if I will attend or not.
How is it that music or a given (set of?) songs can be played or sung over and over, over a multi year (or decade/ century?) span, and everyone agrees with the value of listening to them; …
whereas if someone repeats a speech more than about three times, it “get’s old quick”?
“I have a dream!”
“A time for choosing…”
“Don’t ask what your …”
Similarly, but not quite so much, for poetry??
I tell people I quit listening to pop music when Simon & Garfunkel broke up.
It’s almost true.
Hard to believe they did that huge catalog of amazing music in only 5 years.
They had started singing together as kids in 1953 (per Wikipedia) but were “big time” from 1966-1970.
R2L: Interesting question.
@ Cornflour > “It turns out lots of people are using LLM’s, and their use hasn’t been limited to young techies. The authors, unsurprisingly, think that this will be important for the economy.”
Here is a use by an old not-techie that might be important for the education department — not that anyone in the Democrat DOE will object to what was done.
https://notthebee.com/article/alaskas-top-education-official-used-ai-to-craft-a-cell-phone-policy-for-school-and-was-caught-when-people-realized-the-citations-were-fabricated
@ miguel > “downgrades in various sectors that for example went all in on EV’s, I’m looking at you Ford Motor Company”
This could have some bearing.
https://notthebee.com/article/ford-ceo-jim-farley-is-being-grilled-for-driving-a-chinese-ev
@ Cicero > “The future without a pro-Trump GOP party is dismal.”
Peter Heck’s essay today is on that point.
https://notthebee.com/takes/a-word-about-never-trumpers-heading-into-election-day
Illinois creates snitch line to report acts of “hate”.
https://ilstophate.org/
I note that age is not listed as an identity targeted by “hate”.
I’m Big Brother and I approved this program.
The Obama Machine by Michael Lind
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/obama-machine-michael-lind
How’s the Election nerves today? Maybe this will cheer ya up…from PL’s Week in Pictures:
What does a Feminist use for Birth Control?
Her Personality
How do feminists ever get pregnant?
Beer googles.
But actually not true. Life is strange.
At a particularly difficult time in my life, in the Army, not married, not deployed, I would come to my quarters from “work” and start one of my several S&G tapes. Every night. The big search radar put a “ping” in every few seconds, but I got used to it.
Since then, I’ll take a little S&G from time to time, recognize their genius, but don’t need some.
Surprised they faded, unless their thing was too narrow to be continued. Urban folk sliding over to thoughtful pop would have seemed to offer a good deal of space.
Their relationship went south.
Way, way south.
Happens.
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“… The New Yorker sheds light on the events leading up to Kamala’s run…”
So remind me: How much credibility does The New Yorker have (ESPECIALLY when it comes to supporting AND PROTECTING “Biden”)????
Richard Aubrey:
Simon and Garfunkel didn’t fade, they split up acrimoniously. They both went on to solo careers but Simon was far more successful than Garfunkel when solo.
The Dem playbook hasn’t changed. Their message has changed from Biden saying “they’re going to put you all back in chains” to Harris saying “Trump would ban abortion, limit access to birth control, put IVF treatments at risk and force states to monitor women’s pregnancies”. Same message, different audience.
Despicable!
Did it work back in 2012? Will it work in 2024?
Did it work back in January 6 when yall said it was q/maga insurrecting? Will it work in 2025 jan 6?
neo
I knew they’d split but hadn’t heard them, or much about them, for some time before that. Probably too busy otherwise. But that would be why I thought they’d faded first.