The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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That 70s show (the other ones)

When TV & standup & actual plays intersected...
and occasional non-laughter intervened
Arthur Miller? James Baldwin? Tennessee Williams?
https://twitter.com/JamesL1927/status/1599403920824090625

Dag personal health PSA day

Truthiness Jumps the Shark

Starting with a post-op on Bennett's poor response to a NYT op-ed calling for a full military response to George Floyd/police brutality protesters (with the editor *not reading the op-ed before publishing*).

But also noting that up to *12%* of the nation participated in these *mostly peaceful* protests, so say 30 million. Imagine if the 3000 Jan6 protesters were 30 million, what destruction would have happened.

https://theracket.news/p/james-bennet-and-the-rewriting-of

[Ukraine War] Bellingcat opens it up

Altai Mountain Neanderthals

New gene tracing gives new Neanderthal snapshot

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/19/europe/neanderthal-first-family-dna-s...

Also Bubonic Plague survival (only 1 of 2 in Europe?) complicates current autoimmune self-policing behavior

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/19/world/black-death-plague-immune-syste...

African development as art

Aerial photography of a continent's development as art exhibition

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634060-800-striking-photos-show...

(also the idea of covering the Sahara with solar panels is intriguing)

[Trump/Russia/GOP/Mediagate] Unraveling conspiracies

Third (or fourth?) in a series of long threads as investigations unfold, now in Mar-a-Lago's stolen docs, Tom Barrack's trial, Maggie's book tour to make herself feel journalistic vs deceptive & opportunistic, waiting for Durham to blow another Trumped -up perjury-only case, and of course watching The Donald face the NY & Georgia AG's along with his other meltdowns.

Previous threads here:

http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/trumprussiagopgate-sock-puppet-org-buste...

As the Worlds Turn

Ok, you survived this long not knowing this, but you're gonna see it anyway.

[Trump/Russia/GOPgate] sock puppet org busted

Previous 5-month long thread here:

http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/barr-trumps-soiled-reputations-35202

New charges may signal a more expansive effort to weed out Russian sockpuppet orgs for influencing elections & public opinion, right and left. ["failure to register as a foreign agent"]

13 Russians charged by Mueller in absentia 4 years ago, but this one seems to point higher up the RU food chain plus charges Americans as well.

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Defies gravity Can spit really far Almost touch my toes Can cut a fly's legs off with a beer cap from 20 paces Know how to say useless stuff and prattle on in a dozen languages Don't know when to shut up
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To be for or against the Plague, it's much the same thing. Fiddledee, how a body shure do get around - just 2 weeks ago I was in Mississippi and now I'm all the way to Tennessee... Eat or Be Eaten Better to be pissed off than pissed on.
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Born in swaddling clothes (designer, of course) at the confluence of big waters, my first recorded words were "Dad, can I have the keys to the car?" Raised a Southern Pedestrian, my musical talents were recognized at an early age, leading to my being exiled to the shed out back with a stack of books that became my eddykayshun - advanced readin', writin' & ritmytick, creating a major quandary of "what will I do, oh what will I do?" (Gunslinger) As an old black man advised in song, "You Gotta Move", so move I did, traveling the byways sideways even a lot of driveways, picking up sticks and psychological tics, even movin' to Beverlee through a quaint misunderstanding of the seriousness of TV series, until finally I blew up so big the carry nation incarnation tarnation couldn't hold me no more, so I fixed my sights on yonder sitar, and like Queequeg and Paul Bowles and one of those abducted kids by the Pied Piper of Hamelin, I ventured forth to the larger world, pickin' and grinnin', doin' me some reckonin' and naughts from naughts, occasionally rightin', building me some buildings and wiring and just trying to understand the babble comin' out of people's mouths and heads, I finally ended up in what Rummy quaintly calls "New Europe", which ain't so new from what I sees, but that pit in my stomach from lack-of-moving-sickness finally disappeared, and instead I sit behind a whopping big desk stacked with missives from all the chiefs with big whampum around the world telling me "what's going on". Which seems like a load of boolshit to me, but I guess that's what keeps me busy and entertained now, separatin' the weeds from the chapstick. So my name is Perry Keys, or Peracles to you, and since my mammy always said, "say please and thank you", I added the please, but I'm holdin' back on that thankee until I feel you've earned it. But do welcome, and I hope we's a gonna have a real good time. It all starts with, "I wuz born a poor young white chile livin' in the South..." and we cycle through again, like Nietzsche and his infernal regurgence. So enjoy, and let's spin a spell...

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