Hmmm. We’ve had a slew of calls recently from pop-up pro-law-enforcement groups. Fighting against “defund the police” & such, they say. Every call claims to be from a different group. Caller usually has deep voice & slight drawl. Kinda like “Smokey & The Bandit” auditions.

The line I remember — probably from a later edition — was that life as an elderly enslaved person was “like an early form of social security.”

Here’s the top of a long thread with lotsa insight.

We see Ben hangs separately.

True, he isn’t about sirens. But sirens are what alert the kids to run outside & collect their candy canes. Brenda Lee can’t do that.

I’ll always be proud of my own small role in the launch, & winning the WWDTM You Missed The Point award.

Is this how Kilpatrick got the nickname Killcavalry?

When you skim too fast: “Oath Keepers leader will remain sedated on Capitol riot….”

If I remember right (as it were), his Kennesaw State College course in 1994-95 was Renewing American Civilization, which sounds current today, no? Some of his business donors were spotlighted & gave talks. It led to Ethics Ctte problems for him.

Tonight I’m thinking about my grandparents, who 116 years ago evaded the marauding Cossacks in Odessa & sailed for America. I guess the marauders come by sea now.

Auditioning to be backup singers in the Ike & Tina Revue… as featured in “20 Feet From Stardom.” They didn’t get hired.

Cloverleaf nostalgia

Anyone have any memories of living through the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Small recollection re Jerry Lee. I saw him in the mid ‘70s, at a dinner theater outside DC. He & band rocked, as we knew they would. Somewhere past mid-set, they swung into a weepy honky-tonk shuffle, “One Has My Name, the Other Has My Heart.” And a couple verses in … 1/

Jerry Lee stands up at the piano, tucks his mic into his waistband & steps off the stage into the audience. He goes to nearest table, where he…. 2/

…invites a woman to stand up. They start kissing. Deeply. The band cooks along minus the Killer for a while, and a while more. The ardent couple never stop.3/4

Finally, Jerry Lee detaches himself, saunters back onstage to hit the final verse & refrain right on time. … Rest of the show was as good, a little less interpersonal. And no matches were tossed on the piano.

You should’ve bought a 20-year-old Saab.

“Stupid Girls” by the Stones