June 26, 2008
Remember this guy? He’s running for President. According to CNN Ralph has accused Barack Obama of “talking white.” He has aslo laid out the theme’s that a black person must base his campaign on and claimed that Obama is not following his advice. Pitiful.
June 13, 2008
Republican Presidential nominee John McCain has sided with the Bush administration against affording the right of habeas corpus to prisoners held a Guantanamo following todays 5/4 Supreme Court decision. “We made it very clear these are enemy combatants,” he told more than 1,000 supporters at a town hall meeting, echoing the president’s criticism of the court decision. “They have not, and never have been, given the rights of citizens of this country.”
Senator McCain, habeas corpus is not a privilege given to U. S. citizens by a generous government. It is a basic human right, belonging to all people who have been imprisoned. It dates back to the Magna Carta, signed by John Plantagenet, King of England, in 1215. The idea, sir, is that nobody, including kings and presidents, is above the law.
Sadly, four out of five of our Supreme Court Justices seem unaware of this basic human right also. Chief Justice John Roberts criticized his colleagues for striking down what he called “the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants.” Justices Scalia, Thomas and Alito joined Roberts in dissent. Generous? To be held without trial, without knowing what crimes they have been accused of for the last six years - with no end in sight? Perpetual imprisonment? Generous indeed, it’s costing a fortune to keep all those Afghan goatherds in their luxury suites Cuba. The cable bill alone is shocking.
May 21, 2008
Hillary Clinton, refusing to listen to my advice, has won the Kentucky primary by a margin of 35%, meanwhile Barack Obama has won in Oregon. Obama now has a clear majority of pledged delegates. You can expect another cascade of superdelegates to announce for Obama in the next few days. Clinton vows to fight on. The Kansas City Star calls it “winning by losing.”
I’m tired.
April 16, 2008
I did one of my occasional fill in evenings at the radio station tonight, just after I finished talking to “Jason” in tech support and getting my internet connection back. I was fortunate to be able to premiere the new CD by Chester River Runoff, who will be having a CD release party at the Prince Theater this Friday. Of course I used the opportunity to shamelessly promote Clark’s Picks, where I have just posted a piece on John Herald, an undeservedly obscure musician from the 60’s folk scare.
Dick Cheney did not accompany me to the station. He was busy planning an invasion of Uraguay, “just in case.”
March 29, 2008
Today in the supermarket parking lot I was looking at some of the dinosaurs that people are driving. There are plenty of shiny new 2008 models out there and they all look like possible contestants for “The Biggest Loser.” These cars were purchased after the big price jump.
On of the reasons that American auto manufacturers are in so much trouble, as I understood it, is that they have been building huge gargantua that nobody wants, now that the price of gas has gone up to $3 a gallon and more. How, then do we explain the Toyota Sequoia, the Nissan Titan, the Honda Pilot? These are all huge gargantua that get crappy gas mileage, too.
I know that there is still some difference in overall reliability, in fact I’m really mad at Chrysler Crporation right now, but that much? The price difference is in Detroit’s favor.
Do you have any thoughts on what is really driving American buyers away from American iron?
March 18, 2008
The full text of Barak Obama’s speech, today, about the issue of race in the campaign is up on the New York Times. Tell me what you think. Was he sincere? Did he help or hurt his campaign. Is America ready for an honest discussion about race?
January 20, 2008
When I woke up this morning the blues was walking ’round my bed - no wait a minute, this isn’t the music blog. For some reason I was thinking about riding the commuter train down the “main line” int Philadelphia when I was in high school and visiting all the head shops on Sansome Street. I would buy one Sher Bidi cigarette, horrible brown conical things tied together with a bit of string that would make a Gauloises seem mild, and smoke the thing while I walked from one shop to another. There were incense sticks burning and day-glo posters of Jimi Hendrix on the wall and strings of beads for sale next to drug smoking paraphernalia. Ravi Shankar records were always playing in those shops.
I would meet my friends at the Cathay Garden restaurant where we would each order something different and put it all in the middle of the table so we could sample all the different flavors. General Tso’s chicken was my standard order, now my daughter orders the same thing from China House but that is just a little hole in the wall at the shopping center. Cathay Garden was magnificent.
At night we would go to the Electric Factory for a concert. It was a big old industrial building that was turned into a concert hall with the addition of a makeshift stage , some sound gear and stage lights and a few black lights strategically placed for a psychedelic effect. We sat on the concrete floor only a few feet away from Frank Zappa, sneering at our effete bourgeois selves from the stage. My brother told me he was afraid Frank was going to spit on him.
One Friday night, late, after the Electric Factory, I walked with my friend, Pete, to the Grayhound bus station and boarded the dog for Ocean City, New Jersey. We spent a week at his family’s seaside cottage there. We met two sisters there who were each six feet tall and had a wonderful time on the boardwalk and in the town. That was convenient for me because I was already six foot three. The sisters were embarrassed to be seen with boys that were shorter than them and almost everyone was. I don’t remember that we went onto the beach itself at all.
Would I even consider letting my teenage children wander the streets of Philadelphia or Baltimore alone? They have never asked me. It’s a different world today, that’s certain.
I lost count, but there are probably seven things about me in this meandering post, which was originally intended to be a response to a meme from DCA. I’d like to pass it on, without directions to JohnC, Penfold and Windows to Russia. But then guys don’t do memes.
January 19, 2008
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January 3, 2008
I just peeked in at my TV to see that Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee are the big winners in Iowa this evening. Hillary came in third among the Dems, which is really bad news for someone who is supposed to be the frontrunner. Not much momentum showing there.
Huckabee is running for bassist in chief, I guess. At least Leno didn’t ask him “boxers or briefs.” Maybe he should get together with Bill Clinton and form a band. I don’t think that we need another member of the rapture crowd in the White House right now. The current set seems to be trying to bring on the Lst Days before their term is up, not something I look forward to. We heathens would rather spend our last days on the golf course, thank you very much.
New Hampshire next. I’m sure that everyone in Iowa is glad to see the circus leave town.
Thank you Diane
