My mother used to iron the tinsel (it was heavy strands in those days) every year.

Love this article and love your writing style.

Distraction from the price of eggs that skyrocketed under Biden? Doubtful.

Nice guy but he has TDS.

Tracinski is running for Congress. https://www.tracinskiletter.com/p/tracinski-for-congress

Over on the new Megyn Kelly channel (111) on SiriusXM, her gossip columnist is talking about the RFK Jr./Nuzzi digital affair, which required her to describe and define "felching," since somehow that came up in their love talk.

I wonder if most of the people pushing this idea are childless and have an experience of diapering that is limited to deviant adults.

I really don't think that the point of the film is to discuss or attempt to provide an explanation to current day politics at all? It's simply a portrayal of what can go wrong whenever radical ideas and concepts are introduced to the wider population? She had an idea, she wrote a book about it and first she agreed with what was happening as a result of her having written the book but then it begins to morph into something else completely and evolves into something entirely different? The idea that what you write and out out into the world always has the very dangerous potential to be completely misunderstood/manipulated/misrepresented? That's my opinion anyway!!

Netflix keeps pitching (me or everyone?) Emirates Airlines for our holiday travel. I don't know what the profile of Netflix viewers is that we are getting this.

That's correct. Neandertal DNA has been found (esp in Europeans and descendants) and Denisovan (Asians, Indigenous Americans). Some people may have both. https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/the-first-americans-had-denisovan-dna-and-it-may-have-helped-them-survive

I don't think they have found any Homo floresiensis DNA in humans. AI seems to agree with that, but it gets a lot of things wrong.

"DOGE days are over. I need a pardon."

I don't see any convincing refutation. That you don't like what he's done is perfectly fine; however trying to justify your dislike by trying to prove his work is very bad is not quite convincing. It is so easy to make fun of quotes, I could do it with a Shakespeare sonnet. It is just your perception. Mine is different. Is all his work great? Of course not. It is not the point. His work, like all work of art, is vast and varied enough to find valuable things in it. Your refutation falls short on several things. The folk idiom is mentioned in a previous post. You clearly have trouble with images. No, a hammer does not howl in real life, just as an orange cannot be blue. It's the idea. reducing Like A Rolling Stone to a break up song is quite simplistic. That song touched people not just because it is an angry song. Clearly it evoked different things to various people. That is art. I don't see a break up song, I see different feelings exposed. In a coherent way, with a music that matches the text. Which is what a song does. The debate about Frost or Bernstein being art (because they came before) and popular music being too simplistic is alos a little outdated. If Dylan did one thing, it is to make teenage music something more. You can argue it opened the gates of hell, but it's a fact. Art is constantly changing. The impressionist paintings were not seen as art either. A song does not have to have a specific meaning. It, like any form of art, can be used to express or create emotions. A lot of the lyrics you don't understand do just that. You may not like the medium or the way it is made, but it does just that. Can't just dismiss it as nonsense. Or you can dismiss Rimbaud and Dylan Thomas as well. Clearly didn't get The Times They AreA-Changing. Yes times change, they have for the past two centuries at an accelerating speed. The times are not time. One last thing, this is an artist (I don't know what else to call him) who keeps changing. Just for that, in an age when fashion rules, I think of him as an artist. Whom of course you are completely free to not like. But spending so much time trying to prove he is not even a songwriter, with arbitrarily selected examples, shows more resentment than aesthetic consideration. A song is like a poem, it stands (or not) as a whole.

Let's not forget, "That man whom with his fingers cheats, and whom lies with every breath."

Clarification: "The time isn’t changing, things are." The correct lyric is "times," referring not to time in general, but rather a particular period in time—e.g. those were "hard times." The A is added there, for rhythmic reasons. Makes the lyrics fit the words better, as you pointed out. Also, it's a usage found in the old folk songs that influenced the so-called Bob Dylan—"the train's a-coming." You write that no one has ever spoken this way, but many TV shows and movies prove you wrong. The Wizard of Oz—"We’re a-going to see the Wizard.” The Andy Griffith Show - “He’s a-comin’ round here again.” Etc.etc. It's a rural way of speaking. The lyrics, with their usage of inherited language, are not conversational. As for "Blowin' in the Wind," some need answers in such songs, and others don't. He wrote for the latter group.

https://youtu.be/phZmQC-sFZA?si=F8zJ-HKG53Oy7cRn

I'm gay and I feel you. When they push trans characters in my face or make it seem like all LGBTQwerty are one big bowl of slop. But Skarsgard is hot so I thank you for telling me he's in a gay movie. I'm hoping despite what you write it's romantic or erotic and not just degrading. He was hilarious in "Murderbot" so they should really find a romcom for him.

Thank you for this article. I enjoyed it as I did following the various links to the associated articles. I would be interested to ask why you feel that rock and roll should never die? What is it about rock and roll that gives it inherent value?

Are all the scams right wing these days? Would love to hear your thoughts on the huge, ongoing welfare scam in Minnesota, the investigation into which started years ago during Joe Biden's tenure. It's not a new story. It's just that the media won't cover it until they have to. Surely you can put things into perspective for us.

Recruitment update: >> 'We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English,' one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told the Daily Mail. 'We even had a 469-lb man sent to the academy whose own doctor certified him not at all fit for any physical activity.' << https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15345295/ICE-campaign-hire-deportation-officers-unfit-violent-illiterate.html

I was unaware that Rock ’n Roll was killed in the 1960s and that the Beatles and Bob Dylan were the primary accomplices in its murder. As a big fan of both the Beatles and Bob Dylan I guess you can call me a lover of “pretentious twaddle” and “absurdly inadequate” music and one of the many dupes who were caught up in the “mass delusion” of the times. Did the Beatles “Mutate through the 1960s” or did they musically evolve through the decade. There is much subjectivity in assessing art and music. This article suggests that both the Beatles and Bob Dylan essentially sucked. That is one persons subjective opinion which I personally find to be absurd although he is certainly entitled to it.... I have my own subjective opinions about musicians who some may also find to be absurd.. For instance I think that Barry Manilow and Slim Whitman both sucked but perhaps there is someone out there who might say “your full of it Crestrider! Don’t you know that Barry Manilow was the man who wrote the songs that made the whole world sing and no one before or since could slip into a country falsetto quite like Slim Whitman.”

Did I say 10 years later? Or did that get edited in? Oops it got edited in, man. I said twenty!

www.catherineproject.org They look for volunteers, who tend to be humanities academics.

Well now that you are all married and retired and moved CS, you should run a seminar class for the Catherine Project. Not sure they have many anarchist seminar leaders.

On "Coffee with Scott Adams" today (11/11) Scott Adams says, in discussing how to persuade people, you should watch Cheryl Hines on podcasts, and in particular this episode, if you want to know how to be on a podcast.

That and GQ?

I think seeing The Sting as a young teen or pre-teen helped turn me gay. THAT was a hot couple!

Trump has won twice, but neither of these guys have the slightest idea of why that happened. Try harder, Splice Today.

Hard to imagine thinking that Marc Maron has any real insights into the future of American politics. He's a good comedian and decent interviewer, but his talent stops there. And in this clip, he's talking to a fellow insufferably smug progressive, Sam Seder, who hasn't had an original thought in decades. Posting such material is a total waste of time. Thanks for nothing.

Actually the second littlest one was not her son because he was younger than my dad, i unfortunately don’t remember which cousin he was but the tallest boy was my great aunt’s son.

They are not going to school, my grandfather filmed this. It was a leisurely trip to the end of the line by lake Roland. The little blondie in white was my dad and the dark haired second tallest boy in stripes was my uncle. The lady that was on camera before they boarded was my aunt Bea and the two other boys I think were her sons

Such a great song. So sad youngin's don't know our music in the 60's and 70's was SO much better than their music is.

"If you only know a cup this way, you don't know the cup." David Thomas threw off sparks every time he opened his mouth.

A loving/moving biography of Les Baxter: https://lesbaxter.com/pages/biography

This is great. please add a blusky link one of these days.

Just saw it yesterday. She was terrific.