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That won't stop him from trying to engineering the attempt ... without realizing that if it comes to fruit, the tree of liberty will be watered with the blood of both traitors and patriots.

They haven't yet. Why start now?

 

You’re right. Except when opinion of him is so low that James Cameron needs to launch an expedition to find it, there’s no lower it could possibly go.

And for the reading impaired such as Alma who doesn’t get subtlety, James Cameron is a director who built a big boat that goes underwater and can go really, really deep.

 

Gaetz/Catturd ‘28

 

I mean there's a chance this continues, but at some point there's a faction that will rise up and be like -- hey idiots, we keep losing because of these whackos -- we need to clear them out. If Kinzinger was 56 instead of 46, I could see him joining the cabinet. You've get to 60, maybe 64 with a re-election and you write your ticket giving speaches, write a book whatever. You do it now and then you're 50 and you can't go back. I think he believes the old GOP can reclaim the agenda and the party and he'll be a part of it.

 

Everyone* was expecting R.E.M. to come out with another bouncy jangly upbeat album after "Out of Time," and instead they shifted into a darker starker mode with "Automatic."


* Not actually "everyone," because most people who had followed REM since their early indie rock days knew quite well of their propensity to shift gears, to NOT make the next album simply a rehash of the previous one. So more than that people were eager to see what they were gonna come up with.

 

In MAGAworld, lifetime appointments for profs: bad

Lifetime appointments for justices: goooooood

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/12/desantis-tenure-review-law-florida-professors-00178947

 

Susan Collins, come on down!

 

And 30 years ago this month they went grungy rock with Monster, which I loved almost as much. It was just nice to hear them sound reasonably happy again.

 

Monster seemed almost the direct offspring of "Green" with the polished orchestral songs of "Out of Time" and the stark Plastic Ono Band alt folk of "Automatic" in between.

From about 1985-1995, R.E.M. and U2 had a two-headed competition/dialogue consisting of about a dozen albums or more, between "the two top groups in the world" which hadn't really been seen since Beatles-Stones 1965-71 or thereabout.

Ahhh, all that's gone now. People don't wait around months or even years for their favorite groups to put out albums, to see what they're gonna say musically, lyrically, visually ... none of that.

 

Seen several photos and videos similar recently, and they can't keep their hands off of each other. Nasty. And Melania is nowhere around.