Down with demagod trump
Found today WSJ had run opinion piece by eternal sinkhole former president and living human wretch Trump. Canceled my subscription. I draw a line. Hello, Bloomberg! - Jack
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The media was the message
Sanders was aware of the work of John Cage and Harry Partch. Shown here, Partch's homestyle percussion instruments. Credit... If I pull together 12 of these, that's a dozen. Enough to call a stake. Take 12 The media was the message. And the artists dearly contemplated the media. Poke it. Glom it. Yes, the stuff held magic. There was John Cage silently scaling the New School, or there on CBS on I’ve Got a Secret, with the bathtub bathroom symphony of found sound. A pantheon of sorted musical inventors formed in the 20th Century, and some of the pantheon rolled on wheel on the side walks on the the same streets as Sanders. John Cage, Robert Moog, Leon Theremin, Raymond Scott. Harry Partch. The music fell from the saucers or rose fog-like in field mushrooms. Invention on trash can lids and water streaming gamelans. Along with Cage, and Spike Jones, I'd venture that Partch influenced the Performance Art movement in New York in the '60s -- Happenings, like a rush of wind. N...
Something you don't learn in books.
After 2011 Earthquake, Toyota scrubbed JIT. But they didnt tell GM! https://t.co/t7EGfl5Tvk via @WSJ — Jack Vaughan (@JackIVaughan) July 7, 2021 JIT became a mantra. Then an earthquake hit, and it was time for some re-thinking. I am a guy who grew up in an era of too much inventory (and a guy named Lou sitting at a table smoking a cigarette and reading the paper telling Tootie to get a broom as they both watched the inventory).
Kinzinger - Censured and shunned
Censured by his party and shunned by his church and family members, rational people of any ilk should support Rep. Kinzinger. I thought this interview with Adam Kinzinger was worth pointing to. Strong enough to stand up to Trump and the Trump tools. From the Midwest which been turned head over heels like the South by Trump. He’s seen into the heart of darkness. Excerpt What’s your sense of whether Trump was sui generis or a particularly bad symptom of trends that had already been going on in the Republican Party? The best analogy I can give: He’s like a gangrenous limb. But then that limb gets cut off, and now you don’t have a leg. He’s a symptom of what probably was about a quarter of the party that was always kind of conspiracy-driven but was generally suppressed by most normal Republicans. But everybody has fear in their heart, and when somebody, especially somebody in authority, speaks to the darkest parts of your heart, your fears, your racism — it gives you permission to let...
From the Vault - On Rumsfield's passing - Lost Mojo Man
Reading of Donald Runsfeld's passing. Recalling when his time ran out as Sec of Def. The man who put so many boots on the ground and knocked so many monuments over had lost his mojo, it was said, much discussed, and that conjured for me a song. I dedicated it tho to a great bluesman we had the honor to meet, Robert Junior Lockwood, who had passed about at that time.