FADE IN: NIGHT SEQUENCE Series of shots around one of those $500-a-night resorts in Sea Island, Georgia, an empty swimming pool, an empty beach, an empty golf course, lit rooms seen from outside. It’s Christmas Eve, 1999. Voices over uttering prayers.
there's not much to say here, surely little to dispute. what I'd like to see is you and mr edroso over the way team up to write a 5 act play about this whole fiasco when (if) it's over. if 5 acts are even enough.
it's been kind of stunning to watch the republican congress decide to completely throw aside the mask, and go full anti-democracy, anti-decency, anti-humanitarian, but then to have that followed by the judicial branch has been a staggering blow to the tattered remains of what we were taught were the foundations of our government.
as a 60s hippie, distrust of the morals of our leaders was ingrained early, but this wholesale betrayal has been hard to stomach. I recognize that we can only truly begin to take back any sense of trust by means of the ballot box. I simply hope that the coming election is not the final betrayal.
Oy vey ~ not sure anyone else would have held my attention
Borked: getting even for Bork. You know, like they're still getting even for Nixon
Mollifying the extremists didn't work out so well, aeh? If I had a blog back then I'm sure I would have called it, though while moderating bulletin boards such talk could easily get you removed. Some of us saw this coming, and pretty much kept quiet out of fear of being labeled racist by the racists ...
Didn't we hear, back in 2016, that the reason Trump never attracted attention from the white-collar crime prosecutors was that, as the thief of a mere few hundred millions, he was too small-potatoes to be worth messing with?
Sometimes I think the reason this kind of corruption is not pressed against more vigorously is a recognition that certain threads are too hazardous to pull upon, if one doesn't want the whole tapestry to unravel. The level of unrighteousness in our society's official workings, I'm suggesting, is much greater than we are taught to suppose or equipped to see.
there's not much to say here, surely little to dispute. what I'd like to see is you and mr edroso over the way team up to write a 5 act play about this whole fiasco when (if) it's over. if 5 acts are even enough.
it's been kind of stunning to watch the republican congress decide to completely throw aside the mask, and go full anti-democracy, anti-decency, anti-humanitarian, but then to have that followed by the judicial branch has been a staggering blow to the tattered remains of what we were taught were the foundations of our government.
as a 60s hippie, distrust of the morals of our leaders was ingrained early, but this wholesale betrayal has been hard to stomach. I recognize that we can only truly begin to take back any sense of trust by means of the ballot box. I simply hope that the coming election is not the final betrayal.
Is this a true story?
It seems like a true story.
A truthy story
no names have been changed, for there are none innocent to protect.
"Not THAT movie."
2 marks.
Thanks for that. (And Vince Guaraldi.)
Oy vey ~ not sure anyone else would have held my attention
Borked: getting even for Bork. You know, like they're still getting even for Nixon
Mollifying the extremists didn't work out so well, aeh? If I had a blog back then I'm sure I would have called it, though while moderating bulletin boards such talk could easily get you removed. Some of us saw this coming, and pretty much kept quiet out of fear of being labeled racist by the racists ...
Ooh, nice one boss.
Didn't we hear, back in 2016, that the reason Trump never attracted attention from the white-collar crime prosecutors was that, as the thief of a mere few hundred millions, he was too small-potatoes to be worth messing with?
Sometimes I think the reason this kind of corruption is not pressed against more vigorously is a recognition that certain threads are too hazardous to pull upon, if one doesn't want the whole tapestry to unravel. The level of unrighteousness in our society's official workings, I'm suggesting, is much greater than we are taught to suppose or equipped to see.