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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 34
Remembering Oct. 7; preparing for Nov. 3, working with ICE is not cool; fossil fuels mean terminal illness; reflections on the dead and undead; another “No Kings” rally on the way; notes on art, and the joy of music. This episode includes: The News Is Reporting What Mitch McConnell Looks Like. I’m Telling You What…
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The convenient reality of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’
Al Gore was mostly right, as the above chart shows. The former U.S. vice president’s documentary on climate change, “An Inconvenient Truth,” came out in 2006. It detailed the climate disasters we see today: stronger hurricanes; heated areas leading to massive wildfires; and rising sea levels as polar icecaps melt, to name a few. Here’s…
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It sucks to be a child in Kentucky
When you think it can’t get worse being sick in the Bluegrass State, something shows we underestimate how bad things can get. This from the Kentucky Lantern: The Kentucky Department for Public Health is investigating reports of an unusually high number of brain tumors diagnosed in Eastern Kentucky children. Beth Fisher, a spokeswoman with the…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 32
Driving from Paradise Found to Paradise Lost; MAGA politicians think (and say) their constituents are idiots; Democrat faces a DINO in the Louisville mayor’s race; racism behind a local data center; a Bluegrass philosopher’s take on technology; how citizens can get involved in coming elections, and finding entertainment in bugs and sports. We make references…
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Data center plan reflects Louisville racism
There’s a lot to unpack on the rush by Louisville Mayor (and Trump quisling) Craig Greenberg and his developer-political funders to build a data center in the western part of Louisville. (That’s the planned site in the above photo.) But first, let’s listen to an expert on the strategy by tech bros and their developer…
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Bluegrass philosopher Wendell Berry died last weekend
This Aug. 31 death was a huge blow to Kentucky arts and culture (from the Courier Journal): Wendell Berry, the prolific novelist, poet, essayist, philosopher, agrarian, activist, pacifist and farmer, who was one of Kentucky’s greatest writers and helped inspire the farm-to-table and modern American food movement, has died. He was 92. Berry’s death, on…
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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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This is the opponent to our quisling mayor
Shameka Parrish Wright is running for mayor of Louisville, facing the quisling incumbent Craig Greenberg. We’ve continually pointed out how Greenberg has threatened the lives of our immigrant neighbors by bending the knee to the Orange Menace in the White House and letting ICE agents run rampant across the city. Competent mayors don’t intentionally let…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 30
Visiting our neighbor to the North. Where is our senior senator, and what are our government officials doing while we have limited representation? Was our MAGA U.S. Senate candidate behind a controversial billboard? The curse of Louisville’s “Can Opener.” The rise against data centers. And superheroes are just as depressed as the rest of us. …
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 29
The richest get richer, legislators don’t legislate, and representatives don’t represent. But at least there are diversions! The Richest People In The World A week after announcing budget cuts, Kentucky gov moves millions to offset them 37 municipalities request Beshear’s gas tax reduction after KY lawmakers question the move KY gov blasts GOP leader over…
