Speaking of activism and things worth the hearing, The Guardian has a reader interview (Q&A) with Bonnie Raitt today.
She recommends listening to the Bros. Landreth out of Winnipeg, Canada:
If you like Little Feat, great soul singing and great slide, really knocking my socks off lately is the Bros Landreth out of Winnipeg, Canada – a band that wrote my song “Made Up Mind,” which won the Grammy for Americana performance in 2023, the same year that I won for song of the year.
Good shit, man. I mean, really good shit. Mos def some Little Feat in their DNA.
Meanwhile, at Digby’s Hullabaloo, Tom Sullivan urges us to quit embracing the timidity of The New York Times and hit the streets.
Every way and every day that you push back helps. It may not seem like much, but persistence in numbers builds. It undermines the autocrats and weakens their grip. I see no reason that death by a thousand cuts can’t work for us for a change. “Trump’s Already Lost,” Josh Marshall believes. Make it so.
Beauty, heh? Love me some old timey blues! “She’s so fine, it just ain’t fair” reminds me of “She’s got an Elgin movement from her head down to her toes.”
Trump already lost. Sumbitch is history. I will be surprised if he doesn’t get impeached, again, before the year is out for defying the courts and subverting the constitution.
Worth noting, “Small Change got rained on with his own 38”. If you have a fertile mind (or “limber “ as the Dude says) you can substitute tRump as a millionaire version of Small Change. He’s going down before his 4 years are up. Likely arteriosclerosis and the dementia is already here..
Shuffling deck chairs on his sinking ship he is. Lil’ Marco must be in very good odor at the court. Licks a good jackboot he does. Look in his eyes and you can see his soul has left the building.
When I think of the orange sonofabitch I tend to envision a sort of hybrid W.C. Fields/Pennywise/Jack Nicholson monster-clown performing “Step Right Up” (from the same album):
“You got it, buddy … the large print giveth and the small print taketh away.”
It looks like I better send Arizona Public Media (NPR & PBS in Southeast Arizona) some extra money. Cheeto Benito’s war on the media he don’t like continues.
Yeah, public broadcasting is a bugaboo with these knuckleheads. They hate smarties. The New Mexico PBS dudes are actually going door to door in The Duck! City, soliciting memberships.
We’re already supporting KUNM here, KRCC in B-burg, and Wyoming Public Media (tip of the Radio Free Dogpatch gimme cap to Charles Pelkey). But like you, we may have to ramp it up a notch. These fuggin’ guys. …
Aye Pat. I stopped donation when our NPR stations gladly took money from Enbridge which is one of the worst polluters and liars in the world. Taking the money was “ok” but announcing that Enbridge was one of their sponsors every time they mentioned their name in another news report watered down the fucking reported crimes. “Gee if Enbridge donates to NPR they must be fine fellows overall so drilling under the Great Lakes must be a safe plan”. Maybe without Fed money NPR will grow more teeth or at least find a few more Diane Rehms who will tell a guest point blank they were full of shit when she interviewed them. She invented fact checking on the spot. Sadly, even before tRump, you could see that Fed funding of NPR/PBS was going to get really gnarly. That said, I’ll likely cough up dough to NPR/PBS just to piss off Fox News (Bought and paid for by billionaires) and hope for the best.
I don’t follow NPR the way I used to, when I was still In the Game, though I overhear bits and pieces whenever Herself is in the house (she’s a regular listener). Seems to me that NPR News has lost a step or two since the days of Bob Edwards and Bill Buzenberg (one of my first editors).
Their news coverage feels softer, and the on-air staff a little more frivolous. But man, Back in the Day® I depended on NPR and BBC News to give me a leg up on what I could expect to be dealing with on the job.
All this being said, I’m still a supporter if only because it annoys the halfwit Faux News tub-thumpers who think themselves patriots because they’re sporting American-flag lapel pins made in China.
Margaret Sullivan at The Guardianhas a few thoughts on Trumpelforeskin and his assault on public media, which he’d like to turn into pubic media, to wit, a fuck-puppet for his pleasure.
Yea, they ain’t quite as good as they used to be, but still far ahead of the rest. I still rely on NPR, PBS, especially Frontline and the Newshour, BBC, Reuters, and AP for my news. I also donate to AP. As far a PBS and NPR underwriters go, no problems here. But Meta, Amazon, and AI companies underwrite public media in many markets. I ain’t a fan of any of them, especially fucking Meta and the Flying Peckerhead. But, a big but, stories concerning these underwriters are always prefaced with a statement that they underwrite the program.
The Guardian piece was right on the money. How come nobody cares. Zntwho, when these pendejos go low, I am going lower. Gonna use Patrick’s line, please forgive stealing a riff, that dumpster is shitting on the free world and wiping his lard ass with the constitution.
Mad Blog Media 
Hear, hear! Literally.
Speaking of activism and things worth the hearing, The Guardian has a reader interview (Q&A) with Bonnie Raitt today.
She recommends listening to the Bros. Landreth out of Winnipeg, Canada:
Good shit, man. I mean, really good shit. Mos def some Little Feat in their DNA.
Meanwhile, at Digby’s Hullabaloo, Tom Sullivan urges us to quit embracing the timidity of The New York Times and hit the streets.
The Associated Press serves up a gallery of May Day actions worldwide:
Beauty, heh? Love me some old timey blues! “She’s so fine, it just ain’t fair” reminds me of “She’s got an Elgin movement from her head down to her toes.”
Trump already lost. Sumbitch is history. I will be surprised if he doesn’t get impeached, again, before the year is out for defying the courts and subverting the constitution.
Another good line along those lines from Mr. Waits:
Worth noting, “Small Change got rained on with his own 38”. If you have a fertile mind (or “limber “ as the Dude says) you can substitute tRump as a millionaire version of Small Change. He’s going down before his 4 years are up. Likely arteriosclerosis and the dementia is already here..
Shuffling deck chairs on his sinking ship he is. Lil’ Marco must be in very good odor at the court. Licks a good jackboot he does. Look in his eyes and you can see his soul has left the building.
When I think of the orange sonofabitch I tend to envision a sort of hybrid W.C. Fields/Pennywise/Jack Nicholson monster-clown performing “Step Right Up” (from the same album):
“You got it, buddy … the large print giveth and the small print taketh away.”
It looks like I better send Arizona Public Media (NPR & PBS in Southeast Arizona) some extra money. Cheeto Benito’s war on the media he don’t like continues.
Yeah, public broadcasting is a bugaboo with these knuckleheads. They hate smarties. The New Mexico PBS dudes are actually going door to door in The Duck! City, soliciting memberships.
We’re already supporting KUNM here, KRCC in B-burg, and Wyoming Public Media (tip of the Radio Free Dogpatch gimme cap to Charles Pelkey). But like you, we may have to ramp it up a notch. These fuggin’ guys. …
Makes me wonder what page of the dictator’s handbook we are on? Trumpleforeskin, AKA dickhead, is working his way through the chapters.
Aye Pat. I stopped donation when our NPR stations gladly took money from Enbridge which is one of the worst polluters and liars in the world. Taking the money was “ok” but announcing that Enbridge was one of their sponsors every time they mentioned their name in another news report watered down the fucking reported crimes. “Gee if Enbridge donates to NPR they must be fine fellows overall so drilling under the Great Lakes must be a safe plan”. Maybe without Fed money NPR will grow more teeth or at least find a few more Diane Rehms who will tell a guest point blank they were full of shit when she interviewed them. She invented fact checking on the spot. Sadly, even before tRump, you could see that Fed funding of NPR/PBS was going to get really gnarly. That said, I’ll likely cough up dough to NPR/PBS just to piss off Fox News (Bought and paid for by billionaires) and hope for the best.
I don’t follow NPR the way I used to, when I was still In the Game, though I overhear bits and pieces whenever Herself is in the house (she’s a regular listener). Seems to me that NPR News has lost a step or two since the days of Bob Edwards and Bill Buzenberg (one of my first editors).
Their news coverage feels softer, and the on-air staff a little more frivolous. But man, Back in the Day® I depended on NPR and BBC News to give me a leg up on what I could expect to be dealing with on the job.
All this being said, I’m still a supporter if only because it annoys the halfwit Faux News tub-thumpers who think themselves patriots because they’re sporting American-flag lapel pins made in China.
Margaret Sullivan at The Guardian has a few thoughts on Trumpelforeskin and his assault on public media, which he’d like to turn into pubic media, to wit, a fuck-puppet for his pleasure.
Yea, they ain’t quite as good as they used to be, but still far ahead of the rest. I still rely on NPR, PBS, especially Frontline and the Newshour, BBC, Reuters, and AP for my news. I also donate to AP. As far a PBS and NPR underwriters go, no problems here. But Meta, Amazon, and AI companies underwrite public media in many markets. I ain’t a fan of any of them, especially fucking Meta and the Flying Peckerhead. But, a big but, stories concerning these underwriters are always prefaced with a statement that they underwrite the program.
The Guardian piece was right on the money. How come nobody cares. Zntwho, when these pendejos go low, I am going lower. Gonna use Patrick’s line, please forgive stealing a riff, that dumpster is shitting on the free world and wiping his lard ass with the constitution.
Well, DOGE got me today. Just found out my part time appointment at the bomb factory is over next week, due to budget cuts. Now I am truly retired!
Shit. I’m sorry to hear that, man. And I expect we’ll be hearing more of that sort of thing going forward. Or backward, if you prefer.