Frank Zappa and the Mustache of Prevention

I want three states that are too close to call, where each candidate has to win two out of three to get to 270. And I want the popular vote to be wildly different than the electoral college vote. That’s what today will need to be a worthwhile sequel.

Thanks, sorry for the glitchy link.

Something to have ready when the Democrats lose Georgia:

Atlanta Democrats Blocked the Cop City Referendum — and Alienated a Voter Turnout Operation

In the battleground state of Georgia, Democrats’ decision to disregard the will of 116,000 voters could have major consequences.

Happy Accelerationism Eve to all who celebrate

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.” - the opening of Nabokov’s Speak, Memory

Fareed Zakaria: Kamala Harris became president that day

If Terry Eagleton can write a book called Materialism and spend 1/3 of it reconciling Marxism with Catholicism a Buddhist version has to exist.

Here’s an article: https://mronline.org/2023/07/24/the-revolutionary-spirit-of-the-buddha/ , which links to https://aeon.co/essays/how-marxism-and-buddhism-complement-each-other

and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

As long as Joe Biden gave it his all and he did the good as job as he knows he can do, that’s what this is about.

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The midseason finale where Trump got shot and Biden dropped out was great, but everything since then has just been table-setting and I’m not sure the writers are going to be able to stick the landing. Kinda wish they’d just cancel the show already.

But at what cost?

This could be a verse in “Chickenshit Conformist”

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. Except hamburgers. We can compare it to hamburgers.

My Ancestor and DRUGS are my favorite albums by Rap Band*

(* - latest fad)

On Being Blue, by William Gass

George Carlin talking about how there’s no blue food (“And don’t tell me blueberries, because that shit is purple”)

The blues

Kind of Blue, by Miles Davis. This is it, this is the cure.

This is plagiarism! Roosevelt voters basically said this about Alf Landon, governor of the Sunflower State - “like a sunflower, he’s yellow, black-hearted, and withers away before November.”

Haven’t read this yet, either, but Dirty Secrets: How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy, by Richard Murphy (Verso) (Anna’s Archive)

Which legislators have names dumb enough to rival the Hawley-Smoot tariff? Since we have another Hawley I guess he gets to be a title sponsor. Hawley-Crapo, then? Hawley-Tuberville?