A Wood Thrush & The Magic Flute (Nope, not talking about the Mozart Opera.) Heard a wood thrush yesterday, or maybe several. Haven’t heard one in at least two years. Wasn’t expecting or looking for it; which is the best way to encounter them. In fact, such a visitation was the last thing on my … Continue reading Wood Thrush: The Return of the Magic Flute
Photo from an actual surveillance video of the subversive cell which briefly operated under the nom-de-song “Kingsmen,” playing the song known as “Louis Louie,” which sent a generation of American youth careening into years of frenzied group madness, bringing down western civilization as we know it. the result was a catastrophe that ended, as we all know, in the Great Tribulation known as Disco.
Bashing bottled water won’t fix California’s drought problem. Getting rid of the whole industry would make no real measurable difference.
Face it, folks.
So go ahead and hate on Nestle if you want to; but please — spare us the baloney about how trashing them will do anything for California. Because it won’t.
The Moral Monday protest campaign, aimed at the reactionary NC legislature and its stick-it-to-everybody-but-the-rich program, was by many measures, quite successful in its first season of actions, in the spring and summer of 2013.
Above all, on my list, its biggest success is a kind of “negative”, that is: it has not splintered and vanished; two years later its core of supporters is still there, and yesterday (April 29 2015) it began the work of regathering and relaunching for 2015, at the state capital in Raleigh.
This action was not heralded as the beginning of the Revolution, but rather another round in what has been seen from the start as a long-term struggle.
In fact there were plenty of nonviolent black people on the Baltimore streets last night, doing their level best to protect other people of color, and black-owned (or black servicing) shops and property.