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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 dead and the undead
OK. We all know the “Nancy” comic strip at the top isn’t an official Nancy comic, because it’s actually funny. You can tell it’s fake because Nancy has always been one of the lamest comic strips you will ever read. Here’s a real one for today: I mean, what the hell does this even mean.…
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Schroedinger’s senator is still dead/alive?
For anyone keeping track: We all know the “deadline” has passed to call a special election to fill out the remainder of the current term of “Weekend at Bernie’s” understudy, Mitch McConnell. The general consensus seems to be, “who cares if he’s dead or alive? At least he ain’t voting.” Anyway, you can read the…
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Ky.’s Democratic U.S. Senate candidate: ‘Where’s Mitch?’
Charles Booker, a Black Louisvillian who has the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, has a few questions and comments about Schrödinger’s senator. We’ll turn this over to Booker, even though he has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning against the racist, homophobic, xenophobic Orange Menace fluffing Republican, Andy Barr.
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Schrödinger’s senator
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky’s senior U.S. senator, is dead and alive at the same time, but: Our presidential wannabe governor, who has been told by government insiders that Mitch is dead, is missing his best opportunity to take the national spotlight. He should force the issue saying we need someone in Washington (preferably alive) to represent…
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In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” first came on the air a half century ago, and one of the recurring bits was in the “Weekend Update” segment, where Chevy Chase would read this announcement: The joke, of course, was based on the fact that before Francisco Franco’s death, the three major news networks were running the same…
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The Bluegrass Blues Podcast: Episode 21
Black History Month and the history of American oppression; Kentucky Republicans continue to act against constituents’ interests; municipal legislators fall short (again); dealing with ICE; another failure in journalism, and honorably mentioning local sports. Our discussion includes: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84…
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A Black woman looks at the political scene in the Ville
Attica Scott, a former member of the Louisville Metro Council and former Kentucky state rep for the city, has a spot on view of the New York mayoral election (From Facebook): Mamdani’s win and what it means to me as a Black woman in the South As a Black woman living in Louisville, Kentucky, I’m…
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Ky.’s only woman governor, Martha Layne Collins, dies at 88
This happened over the weekend (from Kentucky Lantern): Martha Layne Collins, who as the only woman to serve as governor of Kentucky revolutionized the state’s economy by landing Toyota Motor Manufacturing, died at 3 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, in Lexington. She was 88. Her husband, Dr. Bill Collins, said his wife died in her sleep…
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The most annoying headline of the week
An Al Cross column in the Kentucky Lantern has this headline: We Need Calm Compelling Voices from the Middle. And it contained this pablum: I got a surprise phone call last week from the other side of the world, where an American expatriate was worried about the future of his country in the wake of…
