Attribution: Living in Interesting Times by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian
28 thoughts on “Those Were the Days”
however, some things never change — like an equal opportunity diss by maher
Bill reacts to the top stories of the week, including Republican infighting and Biden’s border wall.
Sigh, reminders of life are all over the place. A post on FB was about banned books, Where The Wild ThingsAre (1963) in this one. A comment was about learning to read using that book in the 1970’s. Remember Dick and Jane? That is what I learned from in the 1950’s.
https://www.thewrap.com/media-outlets-livestream-video-youtube-donald-trump-election-interference-trial/
Coalition of Media Outlets Requests Video Access to Trump’s Election Interference Trial Due to ‘Unprecedented Nature’
Coalition attorneys wrote in the petition that “the prosecution of a former president, now a presidential contender, on charges of subverting the electoral process presents the strongest possible circumstances for continuous public oversight of the justice system.”
Well, this is something new I’d like to see happen.
ps – It’s starting to sound like #2 son is going to take some of the heat, too.
Pat, your “back in the day” post got me ready to trot out a theory I’ve been pondering for a while in trying to understand why Biden is have so much trouble getting credit for some really significant things he’s done, such as the biggest boost rebuilding infrastructure since Eisenhower. (I don’t buy the idea Democrats are doing enough messaging).
Here’s the theory: since the Pandemic people lost the capacity to process good news. And politicians trying to tell us they did something good, no matter how justified, actually irritates people.
“politicians trying to tell us they did something good, no matter how justified, actually irritates people”
craig, yep, right along there with trying to tell people they’ve been snookered and are in a cult. one tends to get mad when told they’re wrong.
oh, by the way, Israel is at war – surprise attack by Hamas today (reminiscent of yom kippur war back in ’73)
sigh, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Did you hear about Tom, Dick and Harry?
His daddy caught him and made him quit.
. (My oldest Sprite joke)
(Sprite was our first drummer, in ‘62)
(Sprite had hitch-hiked to California and back so naturally we figured he could play the drums)
(Sprite was a terrible drummer)
(Then again, in ‘62 we were ALL terrible)
(But VERY high-energy)
(In our 2nd iteration c. ‘71 we got Sprite some timbales and hired a drummer. )
(Sprite was an essential member of the band in the 70’s cause he sounded just like Neil Young)
Fun with Dick and Jane is what I learned to read with. Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot, Puff, Mother and Father. A little too “traditional” for today’s sensibilities I suppose – in fact the 60s killed them off. By ‘73 they were gone.
back in the day, there was the new england primer that was like a PHD treatise compared to the dick and jane how-to-reads. wonder if the SCOTUS originalists base any of their interpretations on what were the basics as taught by the primer by which all founders must have read and learned their ABCs.
There have been many reprints of The New England Primer.
New England Primer: Improved for the More Easy Attaining the True Reading of English: To Which Is Added the Assembly of Divines, and Mr. Cotton’s Catechism (1991, WallBuilders; note that this is the 1777 edition). ISBN0-925279-17-X
I continued after Dick and Jane by reading the Bobbsey Twins. There’s a LOT of Bobbsey books. I don’t know, there was just something about those two sets of twins which got my attention, that and their stupid little mysteries. I read a lot of weird books back then…….. Bomba the Jungle Boy, The Walton Boys, Trixie Belden……weird stuff, but then I found Walter Brooks books about Freddie the Pig and never again looked backwards.
Somehow I missed out on Nancy Drew and those Hardy guys.
I forget the whole story, but it turns out that there were a factory of sorts churning out all those books, and that the authors were largely fictitious or something like that.
Wiki Edward Stratemeyer is believed to be the writer of the first volume in its original form in 1904.[1]When the original series was brought to its conclusion in 1979, it reached a total of 72 volumes. At least two attempts to restart the series were launched after this, but neither effort saw the popularity the original series achieved.
Speculation that Stratemeyer also wrote the second and third volumes of the series is believed to be incorrect; these books are attributed to Lilian Garis, wife of Howard Garis, credited with volumes 4–28 and 41. Elizabeth Ward is credited with volumes 29–35, while Harriet Stratemeyer Adams is credited with 36–38, 39 (with Camilla McClave), 40, 42, 43 (with Andrew Svenson), and 44–48. Volumes 49–52 are attributed to Andrew Svenson, while 53–59, and the 1960s rewrites of 1–4, 7, 11–13, and 17, are attributed to June Dunn. Grace Grote is regarded as the author of 60–67 and the rewrites of 14 and 18–20, and Nancy Axelrad is credited with 68–72. Of the 1960s rewrites not mentioned, volumes 5 and 16 are credited to Mary Donahoe, 6 and 25 to Patricia Doll, 8–10 and 15 to Bonnibel Weston, and 24 to Margery Howard.
Knowing that this past week has been “banned book week”…. I will tell you my first encounter with such.
I was in 10th grade and the government wanted to ban “Slaughterhouse Five”. Mainly because they didn’t want students to read about how our own government bombed Dresden (which was a city in Germany that held American prisoners of war) during WWII. My English teacher decided to have us read the book before the government made its decision. At the age of 15… it was my first encounter with Kurt Vonnegut… and with the fact that there was even such a thing as banned books.
I had been a voracious reader before reading that book. But it did spark a life long thing in me called being a political junkie.
We are in constant change, but the water is usually simmering. So much has been thrown at folks globally, that it’s overwhelming. Global traumatization.
It’s human nature too long for easier times, but those easier times weren’t all sunshine and butterflies. That’s why we also long for a better future; we remember, deep down, past problems.
We do adapt, though. We take out shoes off in the security line because we know the drill; it was weird at first.
Dems aren’t great at messaging, whereas Republicans are ready to run, en masse, with an obvious lie.
It’s actually more well-received if those who are outside of the political world do the majority of the horn tooting.
MAGAts, however, won’t admit that anyone but their orange overlord can do anything to help them. What Dems need is to employ whatever tactics are used to deprogram cult members.
I was one of those ridiculously fortunate children who looked down and knew those squiggly marks made words. My first “I’ll read it myself” was at three with The Bumper Book and my first now banned book was Dr. Seuss’ “And to Think I Saw I All on Mulberry Street”. I graduated to my Childcraft Encyclopedia and what became a lifelong addiction to Louisa May Alcott.
I’ve been rebuilding that original childhood library for my Great grand girls as all of them seem to be genetically addicted to print on page.
Patd beat me to the more things change idea with the six day war. History repeating is rarely fun.
Renee so much of our youthful reading becomes adult interests. Michener became a love of history and a tiny little book “Master Skylark” turned into a love of theater and Shakespeare. Politics had to wait for watching the first televised Democratic convention and Adlai Stevenson.
An ad just aired on over-the-air TV, offering a free course in US history from Hillsdale College.
I checked out their website and it seems that the Christo-fascists want to indoctrinate anyone regular beyond school age for free.
This is my ~favorite~ in the course listing:“The American Left: From Liberalism To Despotism”
“so much of our youthful reading becomes adult interests”
jamie, a very logical evolving in my case starting with mother goose rhymes to fairy tales to ancient mythology to all sorts of religious books to sci fi to vonnegut and of course understandably ending up with politics. a natural progression.
p.s. throw in there shaw, thurber, hiaasen and various others who cast a slanted but witty eye on reality.
Attribution: Book Banning by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com
The more that comes out about Donald Trump’s post-presidency conduct, the clearer it becomes that the real challenge was not prying confidential information out of Trump but avoiding receiving confidential information.
I think I see the problem. Donald Trump has two modes of conversation. He is either ranting about all the things he intends to do when he becomes dictator of the country — so many rights to strip away! so much vengeance to extract against his enemies! so many guardrails to dismantle! — or he is volunteering classified information. Those are really it. If you don’t want one, you have to buckle in for the other.
Which brings us to the news from special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that Donald Trump apparently shared sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with an Australian billionaire. You might be wondering: Is this a private party, or can anyone play? Yes! All you have to do is pay money to be around Donald Trump by, say, attending a fundraiser or joining Mar-a-Lago, the most valuable golf club on the planet, valued at approximately $6 billion more than the sun, and you, too, can take the Trump Top Secret Challenge! See how long you can go without having Donald Trump just hand you some classified information.
Do you see all these people getting sensitive information from Trump — book researchers, foreign moguls, random users of the site formerly known as Twitter, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte — and wonder, Gee, how long can a person go in his company without hearing something they are not supposed to know? Is it measured in seconds, or in hours? Days seems too long. Fortunately, to answer this question, there’s the Trump Top Secret Challenge! Almost anyone can play! It’s not just for donors, although it is definitely for donors. The only objective is that you spend 24 hours around Donald Trump without learning any classified information.
Anyone can try! If you win, they give you a T-shirt (printed all over with state secrets), but nobody has won it yet. ….
[continues here listing certain game losers …]
It is one thing to walk into a meeting in the Oval Office and, say, be Russian. Everyone knows that Donald Trump loves to impress Russia. The odds were heavily against them. But researchers working on a book about somebody else mistakenly thought they had a shot. They weren’t even at Mar-a-Lago. That seemed promising. But no! Moments into the conversation at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., and the former president is waving classified documents at them. “Secret,” said Donald Trump. “This is secret information. Look, look at this!” Those are actual quotes.
This game is hard! But if you are willing to pay for proximity to the ex-president, you can play as many times as you like! Eventually, you’re bound to lose!
Pastor’s opening prayer just now at Trump rally in Iowa: “We ask that those who stand against him be put to silence. That those horrendous actions against him and his family be exposed and struck down. Give us the courage to stand with Trump.”
“The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified-documents case in Florida has placed a temporary pause on all litigation involving materials attached to Trump’s indictment while she debates postponing the trial altogether.”
The judge seems to be aiding and abetting a traitor.
So, the Christo-fascist masquerading as a teacher of Jesus’ message prays that folks who oppose a rapist, conman, wanna-be dictator to be silenced. Hmmm. In addition to tRUMPsky, may the courts hold the pastor accountable for anyone harmed or killed to silence them. A very disturbing turn of phrase “put to silence.” It’s very close to put to death, but we all know what that fake Christian means.
Also, not very First Amendment-y of a Republican enclave.
You know it’s gonna be a long haul when the other team has a god on their side.
If you’re not careful, a simple twist of fate might find you knocking on heaven’s door.
“Former federal prosecutor and current MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner told SiriusXM radio host Dean Obeidallah that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is at least “an accessory after the fact” to former President Donald Trump’s crimes, and he hopes Special Counsel Jack Smith “goes scorched earth” investigating Jordan and other GOP lawmakers.”
“Ex-president Donald Trump on Saturday said during an Iowa campaign rally that his daughter, Ivanka Trump, has the “style,” the “beauty,” and “the whole package.”
Still perving over his daughter, I see.
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however, some things never change — like an equal opportunity diss by maher
Bill reacts to the top stories of the week, including Republican infighting and Biden’s border wall.
Sigh, reminders of life are all over the place. A post on FB was about banned books, Where The Wild Things Are (1963) in this one. A comment was about learning to read using that book in the 1970’s. Remember Dick and Jane? That is what I learned from in the 1950’s.
https://www.thewrap.com/media-outlets-livestream-video-youtube-donald-trump-election-interference-trial/
Coalition of Media Outlets Requests Video Access to Trump’s Election Interference Trial Due to ‘Unprecedented Nature’
Coalition attorneys wrote in the petition that “the prosecution of a former president, now a presidential contender, on charges of subverting the electoral process presents the strongest possible circumstances for continuous public oversight of the justice system.”
Well, this is something new I’d like to see happen.
ps – It’s starting to sound like #2 son is going to take some of the heat, too.
Pat, your “back in the day” post got me ready to trot out a theory I’ve been pondering for a while in trying to understand why Biden is have so much trouble getting credit for some really significant things he’s done, such as the biggest boost rebuilding infrastructure since Eisenhower. (I don’t buy the idea Democrats are doing enough messaging).
Here’s the theory: since the Pandemic people lost the capacity to process good news. And politicians trying to tell us they did something good, no matter how justified, actually irritates people.
“politicians trying to tell us they did something good, no matter how justified, actually irritates people”
craig, yep, right along there with trying to tell people they’ve been snookered and are in a cult. one tends to get mad when told they’re wrong.
oh, by the way, Israel is at war – surprise attack by Hamas today (reminiscent of yom kippur war back in ’73)
sigh, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Did you hear about Tom, Dick and Harry?
His daddy caught him and made him quit.
. (My oldest Sprite joke)
(Sprite was our first drummer, in ‘62)
(Sprite had hitch-hiked to California and back so naturally we figured he could play the drums)
(Sprite was a terrible drummer)
(Then again, in ‘62 we were ALL terrible)
(But VERY high-energy)
(In our 2nd iteration c. ‘71 we got Sprite some timbales and hired a drummer. )
(Sprite was an essential member of the band in the 70’s cause he sounded just like Neil Young)
Fun with Dick and Jane is what I learned to read with. Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot, Puff, Mother and Father. A little too “traditional” for today’s sensibilities I suppose – in fact the 60s killed them off. By ‘73 they were gone.
back in the day, there was the new england primer that was like a PHD treatise compared to the dick and jane how-to-reads. wonder if the SCOTUS originalists base any of their interpretations on what were the basics as taught by the primer by which all founders must have read and learned their ABCs.
it’s still in use by the way.
more from wiki:
I continued after Dick and Jane by reading the Bobbsey Twins. There’s a LOT of Bobbsey books. I don’t know, there was just something about those two sets of twins which got my attention, that and their stupid little mysteries. I read a lot of weird books back then…….. Bomba the Jungle Boy, The Walton Boys, Trixie Belden……weird stuff, but then I found Walter Brooks books about Freddie the Pig and never again looked backwards.
Somehow I missed out on Nancy Drew and those Hardy guys.
I forget the whole story, but it turns out that there were a factory of sorts churning out all those books, and that the authors were largely fictitious or something like that.
Wiki
Edward Stratemeyer is believed to be the writer of the first volume in its original form in 1904.[1]When the original series was brought to its conclusion in 1979, it reached a total of 72 volumes. At least two attempts to restart the series were launched after this, but neither effort saw the popularity the original series achieved.
Speculation that Stratemeyer also wrote the second and third volumes of the series is believed to be incorrect; these books are attributed to Lilian Garis, wife of Howard Garis, credited with volumes 4–28 and 41. Elizabeth Ward is credited with volumes 29–35, while Harriet Stratemeyer Adams is credited with 36–38, 39 (with Camilla McClave), 40, 42, 43 (with Andrew Svenson), and 44–48. Volumes 49–52 are attributed to Andrew Svenson, while 53–59, and the 1960s rewrites of 1–4, 7, 11–13, and 17, are attributed to June Dunn. Grace Grote is regarded as the author of 60–67 and the rewrites of 14 and 18–20, and Nancy Axelrad is credited with 68–72. Of the 1960s rewrites not mentioned, volumes 5 and 16 are credited to Mary Donahoe, 6 and 25 to Patricia Doll, 8–10 and 15 to Bonnibel Weston, and 24 to Margery Howard.
Knowing that this past week has been “banned book week”…. I will tell you my first encounter with such.
I was in 10th grade and the government wanted to ban “Slaughterhouse Five”. Mainly because they didn’t want students to read about how our own government bombed Dresden (which was a city in Germany that held American prisoners of war) during WWII. My English teacher decided to have us read the book before the government made its decision. At the age of 15… it was my first encounter with Kurt Vonnegut… and with the fact that there was even such a thing as banned books.
I had been a voracious reader before reading that book. But it did spark a life long thing in me called being a political junkie.
We are in constant change, but the water is usually simmering. So much has been thrown at folks globally, that it’s overwhelming. Global traumatization.
It’s human nature too long for easier times, but those easier times weren’t all sunshine and butterflies. That’s why we also long for a better future; we remember, deep down, past problems.
We do adapt, though. We take out shoes off in the security line because we know the drill; it was weird at first.
Dems aren’t great at messaging, whereas Republicans are ready to run, en masse, with an obvious lie.
It’s actually more well-received if those who are outside of the political world do the majority of the horn tooting.
MAGAts, however, won’t admit that anyone but their orange overlord can do anything to help them. What Dems need is to employ whatever tactics are used to deprogram cult members.
I was one of those ridiculously fortunate children who looked down and knew those squiggly marks made words. My first “I’ll read it myself” was at three with The Bumper Book and my first now banned book was Dr. Seuss’ “And to Think I Saw I All on Mulberry Street”. I graduated to my Childcraft Encyclopedia and what became a lifelong addiction to Louisa May Alcott.
I’ve been rebuilding that original childhood library for my Great grand girls as all of them seem to be genetically addicted to print on page.
Patd beat me to the more things change idea with the six day war. History repeating is rarely fun.
Renee so much of our youthful reading becomes adult interests. Michener became a love of history and a tiny little book “Master Skylark” turned into a love of theater and Shakespeare. Politics had to wait for watching the first televised Democratic convention and Adlai Stevenson.
An ad just aired on over-the-air TV, offering a free course in US history from Hillsdale College.
I checked out their website and it seems that the Christo-fascists want to indoctrinate anyone regular beyond school age for free.
This is my ~favorite~ in the course listing:“The American Left: From Liberalism To Despotism”
“so much of our youthful reading becomes adult interests”
jamie, a very logical evolving in my case starting with mother goose rhymes to fairy tales to ancient mythology to all sorts of religious books to sci fi to vonnegut and of course understandably ending up with politics. a natural progression.
p.s. throw in there shaw, thurber, hiaasen and various others who cast a slanted but witty eye on reality.
Attribution: Book Banning by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com
ms petri’s Opinion | How long can YOU be near Trump without learning secret information? – The Washington Post
Pastor’s opening prayer just now at Trump rally in Iowa: “We ask that those who stand against him be put to silence. That those horrendous actions against him and his family be exposed and struck down. Give us the courage to stand with Trump.”
https://www.newsweek.com/aileen-cannon-anchored-trump-amid-latest-court-decision-analyst-1832822
“The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified-documents case in Florida has placed a temporary pause on all litigation involving materials attached to Trump’s indictment while she debates postponing the trial altogether.”
The judge seems to be aiding and abetting a traitor.
So, the Christo-fascist masquerading as a teacher of Jesus’ message prays that folks who oppose a rapist, conman, wanna-be dictator to be silenced. Hmmm. In addition to tRUMPsky, may the courts hold the pastor accountable for anyone harmed or killed to silence them. A very disturbing turn of phrase “put to silence.” It’s very close to put to death, but we all know what that fake Christian means.
Also, not very First Amendment-y of a Republican enclave.
You know it’s gonna be a long haul when the other team has a god on their side.
If you’re not careful, a simple twist of fate might find you knocking on heaven’s door.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/msnbcs-glenn-kirschner-says-jim-jordan-is-accessory-after-the-fact-to-trumps-crimes/
“Former federal prosecutor and current MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner told SiriusXM radio host Dean Obeidallah that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is at least “an accessory after the fact” to former President Donald Trump’s crimes, and he hopes Special Counsel Jack Smith “goes scorched earth” investigating Jordan and other GOP lawmakers.”
https://www.rawstory.com/beautiful-as-ivanka-trump/
“Ex-president Donald Trump on Saturday said during an Iowa campaign rally that his daughter, Ivanka Trump, has the “style,” the “beauty,” and “the whole package.”
Still perving over his daughter, I see.
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