In Memoriam

• Chris Squire, musician (bassist and co-founder of Yes)
• Marva Collins, educator

Whooooooo-Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

Supreme Court.  5-4.  Same-sex Marriage is legal in all 50 states.

Excuse me while I jump up and down with glee (not Glee) and joy amd thanksgiving to the Lord.  The Pride parade is going to be especially ecstatic this year.

Court Upholds ACA. Bears Discover Cars.

Yup.  Supreme Court okayed the health care subsidies that help the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare') to work.

Naturally, the conservatives are whining.  And apparently "banana republic" is code for the UK.  Well, no.  But the conservatives quoted, especially the ones "concerned" about the cost! Oh My God, have no similar qualms about sending troops to Syria or Iran.  Because it's dee-fense.  That seems to be the excuse, anyway.

To be entirely Fair and Balanced:

• Not all conservatives are stupid
• Not all conservatives are racist
• Not all conservatives are liars
• Not all conservatives are sexist
• Not all conservatives want me, personally, dead
• Not all conservatives believe the labor movement should return to the golden days (spit) of 1910
• Not all conservatives are whining losers
• Not all conservatives want to impose their religions on everyone
• Not all conservatives are in favor of restoration of the Bourbons
• Not all conservatives are ranting xenophobes
• Not all conservatives are ranting homophobes, and those who are are not necessarily in the closet (it's hard to remember that when they keep getting outed)
• Not all conservatives believe liberals are conspiring against them
• Not all conservatives sling cant about small government and then try to criminalize as many acts as possible
• Not all conservatives are thieves
• Not all conservatives are rich, or think they will be rich tomorrow morning
• Not all conservatives lack empathy except for relatives and friends.

...but some are and do, and those form the stereotype of The Conservative, which is repellent.  Forties movies had the cliché of the Cultured Nazi, but I found that repellent as well.

(This is a piece of the rant that is simmering on the back burner while I absorb Ta-Nehisi Coates' essays on Confederate flag and race in America (there are more; these are a taste) and various postings from the last month.)

In Memoriam

Gunther Schuller, classical and jazz musician and teacher.

In Memoriam

Phil Austin, member of Firesign Theater and voice of Nick Danger.

In Memoriam

• Kirk Kerkorian, rich guy.
• Blaze Starr, burlesque queen who knew politicians

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In Memoriam

• Ornette Coleman, jazz innovator
• Christopher Lee, actor
• Ron Moody, actor

Actually, I Liked the Possibility of Hyperintelligent Bees...

Mr. Scalzi on not addressing every flare-up of ongoing kerfuffles.  (I've seen some of the comments he refers to.  Entitlement is not a river in E--well, it's not.  I had to listen to a lot of Fairport Convention and Marvin Gaye to regain my calm.)

Seriously, there are reasons I deeply distrust certain ideologies, entirely aside from the dislike of abstract me.  (The rant that would normally follow here was loud, high-pitched, and incoherent, although the martial arts movements were unmistakeable.)

In Memoriam

Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor and writer.

Uh-oh...

Via skippy:  Buzzflash at Truthout presents 10 hallmarks of "regimes" that apply to U.S. (yes, that's on purpose).

Today is the 123rd anniversary of the arrest of Homer Plessy, plaintiff/appellant of Plessy v. Ferguson.

In Memoriam

Ronnie Gilbert, singer (the Weavers), psychotherapist, and actress.

In Memoriam

• Jean Ritchie, folk singer  (Ad may play.)
• Betsy Palmer, actress.  Also, panelist on I've Got a Secret.

To the Warehouse

Thank you, sorta, Virginia Woolf.

I've moved some blogs to the Archived blogroll.

Here, have some Blind Faith (Blind Faith music proper begins at 9:55; previous material is the histories of the members of the band).

I'm beginning to think Robin Williams was right about Fukitol, except America is still taking it on the sly.