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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 33
Money makes the world go round: Buying “free speech” in religion, politics and sports, and paying for silence. The corpse of Schrödinger’s senator wheels through the U.S. Capitol, while MAGA policies kill Kentucky kids. And finding refuge in bugs, sports and art. This podcast includes: My synagogue’s rabbi began Yom Kippur with a sermon apologizing…
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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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They say a picture is worth a thousand words
So instead of writing a thousand word piece on ex-proto-Trump MAGA Kentucky governor Matt Bevin (pictured above in his fashionable prison orange, because orange is his favorite color), we’ll refer to this piece from the Miami Herald: “Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, who was arrested in Central Kentucky Thursday, will spend 60 days in jail…
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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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Craig’s ICE tyranny in action
This is Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg’s fault: A Louisville-area family is calling for answers after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a Ugandan woman at Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport, and her family says she was denied critical medication for sickle cell disease for more than 24 hours. Sarafinah Bukirwa arrived in the United…
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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…
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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…
