3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1733+ words) WELCOME TO THE EVENING SHADE, A SANCTUARY OF SANITY AFTER A LONG HARD DAY OF FIGHTING FASCISM. Before the gig last night, I started watching (free, on YouTube), 1985’s Spies Like Us. Boy! is it bad!!! I’m very glad that…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (50+ words) I don’t recognize them … Daily Kos A cartoon by Mike Luckovich. We'll get straight to the point: The financial hardships that Daily Kos is facing this year are tough. Was this story worth reading? Recommending and sharing stories helps us…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (353+ words) I know your mind went to beans when you saw that title, because here at KTK, we have unaccountably become the Bean People. But no, that’s not what I’m getting at. In last Thursday’s KTK, kimoconnor shared a picture of…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (107+ words) You remeber the movie The Fugitive, the Andrew Davis thriller. The movie’s next “really ridiculously-sounding” reference comes near the end in the hotel-in-question’s laundry room when Gerard shouts to the accused and falsely convicted Kimble: “I’m either lying or I’m…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (442+ words) Strange Fruit Makes a Comeback His name was Trey Reed. He was 21 years old and a student at Delta State University in Mississippi. Last September he was found hanging near the campus. Authorities called it suicide. Juliana Nzita, 16, was a…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (364+ words) New York, the borough of Manhattan in particular, is both a paradigmatic metropolis—template for the late twentieth-century, American, and global city—and an exceptional urban space that cannot be restricted to a fixed model of urban development. It’s also…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (512+ words) The final week + change of my Patriotic Playlist challenge; Then we come to the third verse and take a step back from the battlefield and the trampled vineyards and dreadful lightnings for a more spiritual meditation which closes with the…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1355+ words) This is something of an experiment. A days worth of Bluesky posts from democratic congress critters. Much like a cheap knock off of the great CBC series done by Lpeacock but I struggled a bit on a focus. So this…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (164+ words) The Map Men are hilariously back with a look at who had it worse – Magellan or Drake – the first two captains to circumnavigate the globe. Map Men: The First Two Voyages Around the World Wednesday Tippy and Dad The History…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (771+ words) I grew up during the American Bicentennial and I think it made me a history geek. It certainly gave me an affection for what we might call patriotic music.. Every year I tell myself that I’m going to assemble and…...