Lag Ja Gale, and Other Truths

Trump endorsed Mark Robinson for governor of North Carolina, saying that he's, "Martin Luther King on steroids," and "Martin Luther King times two."

Now it turns out that Robinson has described himself as "a black Nazi." 

Has there ever been an easier political layup? Trump and Vance need to pull their endorsement.

When asked, Trump said he, "doesn't know anything about the situation."

Number one, yes he does. Number two, until he pulls his endorsement, he is quite literally endorsing a black Nazi for governor of North Carolina.

To continue to support somebody who endorses a black Nazi, would be to support Abraham Lincoln on heroin and cocaine, times 100.

September 28, 2024

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Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher, was born on this day and 551 BC. 

"He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions."

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Brigitte Bardot was born on this day in 1934.

From Golden Age of Hollywood:

When Brigitte Bardot met Picasso at his studio at Vallauris outside Cannes during the film festival of 1956. She was apparently keen to become his muse and felt disappointed that he didn’t wish to paint her, although he never said why.

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A satire profile, or a victim of truth serum?

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There's a meme going around, I'm not going to repost it. "Gays against Islamophobia," with some gay people marching in a parade with a banner... then, "Islam against gays," with some Muslims throwing a blindfolded and presumably gay person off a building.

Let's face it, that is the truth in many parts of the world.

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Public Disservice Announcement- Aldi has perfect Girl Scout cookie knockoffs for around $1.50/box.

September 28, 2019

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Jordan Peterson joke- "If you're a real sadist you will never harm a masochist even if he asks you to."

September 28, 2018

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You know, maybe this is a grand Democratic sexual assault conspiracy against Kavanaugh (even though he doesn't believe the accuser is involved.) That would explain how they kept Gorsuch off the bench by convincing everybody he was the reincarnation of Ed Gein.

September 28, 2018

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Ye of little faith, rejoice.

September 28, 2011

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On this day in 1941, Ted Williams pulled off what I consider one of the most spectacular feats in all of sports. He went into the day hitting .39955. If he wanted, he could have taken the day off and it would have been rounded up to .400. Legend has it, he could have taken off the previous day and the double header the last day and preserved a .401 average. He didn't consider any of that, and went six for eight in the doubleheader the last day, including a home run to end the year at .406. Imagine the pressure! Nobody had hit .400 since 1930, and no one has done it in the 81 years since. 

https://sabr.org/journal/article/the-day-ted-williams-became-the-last-400-hitter-in-baseball/

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Thomas Crapper, plumber, and inventor of the ballcock, was born on this day in 1836. 

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The documentary Free Solo was released on this day in 2018. A must watch!

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Indian playback singer, Lata Mangeshkar, was born on this day in 1929, and just died this year due to Covid. One afternoon I spent an hour or two looking for a song that had run through my head for years. I couldn't remember one word of course. All I could remember was the girl walking through weeping willow type trees and the man guardedly warming up to her. It was Lag Ja Gale, with a quarter billion views, certainly 100 from me.

https://youtu.be/TFr6G5zveS8

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Pompey, the Roman general and politician, left us on this day in 48 BC, a day before his 58th birthday.

"Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!"

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Mao Zedong- "Every communist must grasp the truth, political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

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Herman Melville left us on this day in 1891. From Moby Dick:

"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored; therefore, to the death-longing eyes of men, who still have left in them some interior compunctions against suicide, does the all-contributed and all-receptive ocean alluringly spread forth his whole plan of unimaginable, taking terrors, and wonderful, new-life adventures; and from the hearts of infinite Pacific's, the thousand mermaids sing to them--"Come hither, broken-hearted; here is another life without the guilt of intermediate death; here are wonders supernatural, without dying for them. Come hither! bury thyself in a life which, to your now equally abhorred and abhorring, landed world, is more oblivious than death. Come hither! put up thy gravestone, too, within the churchyard, and come hither, till we marry thee!" Hearkening to these voices, East and West, by early sun rise, and by fall of eve, the blacksmith's soul responded, Aye I come! And so Perth went a-whaling."

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Louis Pasteur left us on this day in 1895.

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” 

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Edwin Hubble left us on this day in 1953.

"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."

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Harpo Marx left us on this day in 1964.

"I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived."

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Pope John Paul died on this day in 1978. He was the William Henry Harrison of popes.

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Other notable birthdays- Ed Sullivan (1901), Ben E. King (1938), Janeane Garofalo (1964), Naomi Watts (1968)

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Other notable deathdays- Miles Davis (1991), Elia Kazan (2003), Arthur Penn (2010)

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Sometimes it's sad to think that one day Bob Dylan will be dead. But you only start dyin' when you quit bein' born, and Bob Dylan will keep bein' born forever. Know what I mean?

https://youtu.be/_CJHbfkROow

September 28, 2010

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Allen Lucy murder house

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Hubble again- "Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation."

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Dark- "Every decision for something is a decision against something."

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For no reason:


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Peggy Bundy: Al, how come you never send me roses? 

Al Bundy: I don't like you, Peg.

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Michel de Montaigne- "Every man has within himself the entire human condition."

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Richard Dawkins- "The less you think, the more you believe."

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Freud- “The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.”

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Dr. Seuss- "Sometimes you will never know the value of something, until it becomes a memory."

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Shel Silverstein:

The Voice

There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you--just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.

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Martin Heidegger, Being and Time- "Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself."

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George Santayana, Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies- "My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests."

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Stephen King, Night Shift- "The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle."




Addendum

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September 28, 2008

a conversation

Here's a conversation Emma and I had tonight after she got home:

Ben- I did something responsible tonight. Only one of our four smoke detectors had a working battery, so I replaced the others.

Emma- Good. You're very good.

Ben- And I bought cat food.

Emma- Good. You're very good.

Ben- And I bought licorice.

Emma- Good. You're very good.

Ben- And I bought new sneakers.

Emma- Good. You're very good.

Ben- And their brand name is EZ Strider.

Emma- (silence)

Now she's going to bed and I'm going to drink some wine and watch Ken Burns' Civil War documentary, and try to imagine what my great-great-great grandfather would think of how easy I have it.


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