Is Ted Cruz Satan? Discuss.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

If I hear one more fucking white suburban douchebag, or clueless fucking soccer mom, talk about how that woman who admonished her son for rioting on camera is a "hero," I'm going to snap the bottom of my martini glass off and spear them in the eye with it... until it punctures their cerebral cortex.

Jesus Fucking Christ. Motherfucker. Goddammit! Fuck, fuck, fuck! The city is on fire due to protests that have to do with police brutality and decades of govt policies that are turning lower middle class areas into third world slums. Now, we might disagree about what should be done about these things. Frankly, I don't think the situation is fixable. But what's not up for debate is that the situation exists, and has been caused in significant part by govt policies and changes in the global economy! The most important and interesting aspect of this thing is not that some Black mother is mad at her son for rioting. And anyone who elevates such a peripheral bit of the story to prominence betrays one of the following:

1. Idiocy (you're actually stupid enough to think the mother/son scene is as important as the broader issues underpinning the riot);
2. Head in Sand-ism (you'd rather focus on any bit of the story that seems possibly positive and allows you to ignore or avoid discussion of the broader issues underpinning the riot); or,
3. Dickheadedness (you're an asshole looking for any way to blame the rioters exclusively, and absolve the system/status quo, which you happen to like, from any responsibility).

I'm not sure the "!" after "global economy" works there. I believe you want the reader to take the sentence as a given, a foul truth perhaps, but not something that could be questioned. The "!" seems inappropriate for that, and weakens the argument.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

The one about parrots and old pot-bellied white dudes in horrible fucking shirts.

So...Migration?

I know almost every Buffett song. As a wee lad in the '80s my parents consistently played:

• James Taylor
• Bob Dylan
• Bonnie Raitt
• Jackson Browne
• CCR
• Jimmy Buffett
• Rolling Stones

It's weird hearing a Buffett song now (30 years later) and knowing the words.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

The one about parrots and old pot-bellied white dudes in horrible fucking shirts.

Damn man. Just insult half the board.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Damn man. Just insult half the board.

There are parrots on this board? That's unsettling.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

There are parrots on this board? That's unsettling.

I'll give you unsettling. NotBob and I are becoming friends IRL when I visit where he lives. So far we meet at bars, but if things keep moving forward eventually I expect I'll be invited to his house, and then he controls the music Any advice?

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

There are parrots on this board? That's unsettling.

Give us a kiss.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

So...Migration?

I know almost every Buffett song. As a wee lad in the '80s my parents consistently played:

• James Taylor
• Bob Dylan
• Bonnie Raitt
• Jackson Browne
• CCR
• Jimmy Buffett
• Rolling Stones

It's weird hearing a Buffett song now (30 years later) and knowing the words.

You were lucky. i know the words to every Harry Nilsson song.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

You were lucky. i know the words to every Harry Nilsson song.

Helen Reddy. Anne Murray. Fuck you.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

Helen Reddy. Anne Murray. Fuck you.

I know show tunes. Grease, Man of la Mancha, Jesus Christ Superstar... I could go on and on -- we went to Broadway a lot, and then heard the albums over and over again.

It's a wonder I'm not gay, come to think of it.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

Helen Reddy. Anne Murray. Fuck you.

Throbbing Gristle. You've Got Foetus On Your Breath. FUCK YOU.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

You were lucky. i know the words to every Harry Nilsson song.

"Jump in the Fire"... Good times. Mom was so happy and played that song over and over an over again late at night. She'd sleep until 3:00 the next day!

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

Throbbing Gristle. You've Got Foetus On Your Breath. FUCK YOU.

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

Helen Reddy. Anne Murray. Fuck you.

I'll take "AM radio in the mid 1970s" for $500, Alex.

I'm pretty sure in older than you and Less (and I know I'm a damn bit holder than Young Coltrane), and I was the youngest of 5, so the music my parents listened to in my youth did not include Harry, Helen, Anne, or Jimmy. Mom was a fan of big bands - especially Tommy Dorsey recordings when Sinatra was his singer.

Dad (as older brother Not Nick puts it) "liked both kinds of music - country AND western." His favorite two albums were Johnny Cash's Live at Folsom Prison and Johnny Horton's Greatest Hits. When sufficiently motivated, I can still sing A Boy Named Sue and Sink the Bismarck to great acclaim.

Anyway, I still blame Jimmy Carter for James Watt, Ed Mease, and the virtual destruction of Head Start. And did we have all of these food poisoning recalls (ice cream now? Wtf?) before Reagan gutted the USDA?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

You were lucky. i know the words to every Harry Nilsson song.

I've never heard of him.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone

Helen Reddy. Anne Murray. Fuck you.

Don't know who Helen Reddy is.