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Being stupid is no excuse. So don’t excuse stupid people
There’s a scene in the classic Alfred Hitchcock movie “Vertigo” where Barbara Bel Geddes (as Midge) makes fun of Jimmy Stewart’s character’s obsession with a mysterious married woman. Here’s the clip: Let’s just say that the painting itself isn’t stupid. Anyone who can paint like that has to be a genius. And the joke Midge…
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Garland wears hate hats proudly
We’ve already noted in past post how Kentucky’s MAGA GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate, Garland Hale Barr IV (who goes by the “Toy Story” name Andy to prove he’s a real boy), had taken every hateful stance in his campaign to Make Kentucky White Again, even though the state’s population is 84% White. He’s…
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GOP history (and what it’s doing today)
The above illustration accurately presents the history of the Republican Party since the 20th century. The video below is about Texas, a GOP dominated state, but most of it applies to Kentucky: Think that’s an exaggeration? Look at the campaign web site for Garland Hale Barr IV, the racist, sexist, xenophobic, transphobic Kentucky candidate for…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 31
Where our hiatuses took us; Kentucky politicians making national news; the state’s economy worsens (while MAGA politicians focus on the irrelevant); the Commonwealth ranks at the top in bottom-feeding statistics, and updates on Louisville’s Community Defense Network. NOTE: The street holding the political fundraiser reopened after an earlier closure. Our statistical references are:
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Welcome to Gilead?
I was taking my early morning walk on Sunday and saw this in the distance: And of course, the first irrational thought was: Are those women handmaids? Did something happen last night, and I woke up in Gilead? For the nonliterary types, I’m referring to the dystopian nation featured in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.”…
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A note to the transphobic, racist Trump-fluffer Andy Barr
MAGA Orange Menace fluffer Andy Barr is running for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat in Kentucky. Go to his website, and you see his list of talking points geared toward MAGA morons who love the fact that Barr is a bottom feeder. But also recognize that the bigoted Republican most likely sees these losers as his…
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I smell a ratfuck
Ratfucking is an American slang term for behind the scenes (covert) political sabotage or dirty tricks, particularly pertaining to elections. It was brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in All the President’s Men (1974), the book that chronicled their investigative reporting of the Watergate scandal.(Wikipedia) A few weeks ago, during my daily miles-long walk around my Louisville neighborhood, I came across…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 28
Our primary election “autopsy” (GOP is evil, Dems are incompetent); a medical emergency portends sad future for Kentucky; get out and visit the state, and Shakespeare is back in Louisville (to like or not to like, with a dramatic reading from a galaxy far, far away). Attica Scott: Kentucky democrats need to reckon with a…
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The murals of Louisville
We do a lot of walking through the streets of Louisville. As we noted in our last podcast, we also run across murals you won’t necessarily notice if you’re driving through the city, like the painting at the top of noted mid-20th century singer Rosemary Clooney, the aunt of actor George Clooney, located on a…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 25
Self-care in trying times, the villainy of the ultrarich, Kentucky elections, national politics and why developers shouldn’t hold public office. In the podcast, we refer to: 1: Pete Hegseth, a moron, reads from the book of Samuel L. Jackson: The King James version of Ezekiel 25:17: And I will execute great vengeance upon them with…
