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Frank Zappa siad something like this; in the 1960’s a bunch of music execs who liked Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong had to deal with the new wave coming in. They decided to throw money at every band they could find and as a result we got music ranging from The Mama’s and The Papas to Iron Butterfly and beyond.

By the 1970s the next wave of record execs had realized that Motown acts all looked and sounded the same, but they made a lot of money. One Motown was fantastic, but dozens of them meant that everything was going to start looking and sounding the same.

Similar thing with the movies. Lots of wild experimental movies like Easy Rider and The Conversation got made in the 1970s, but when Star Wars came in the studios found their goldmine.

It’s not a joke. Wolfe is both a genius crime solver with an official license and an almost total recluse who spends all his time in his house growing orchids and enjoying the hard work of his private chef.

He has a hard working assistant who brings Wolfe people to interrogate. Archie is the one who writes the stories and finds the clues, but it’s Nero who actually solves the cases.

“The League of Frightened Men” by Rex Stout is one of the best of the series. It was originally published in 1932 and is still in print.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-league-of-frightened-men-rex-stout/7336709?ean=9780553762983

As long as sex work is illegal, it will be easy for people to find ways to abuse sex workers.

This is why Reagan was so hot to get rid of the Fairness Doctrine.

Under the old rules, no one entity could own more than one TV station in a town. Most towns had an independent newspaper. Reagan changed the rules so we have fewer and fewer companies controlling more and more of the information.

President Harry Truman had a sign on his desk. ‘The buck stops here.’ That meant he knew that he couldn’t ‘pass the buck’ and say he wasn’t responsible.

To put it another way. When Ebola was a threat, Trump said that Obama should resign if one American died of it. By Trump’s own logic he’s unfit to be President.

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One of my favorite fictional detectives is Nero Wolfe. In one of the stories he asks his assistant if the morgue is open all night.

I remember “It’s 10 pm, do you know where your children are?” being asked every night before the local news.

‘Stand By Me’ was a movie about four boys disappearing for a weekend and not one parent was arrested.

Yes.

Rudy was a bully when he was NYC Mayor. He happily jailed fare beaters and squeegee men to ‘protect’ the citizens.

I only wish he’d been forced to hand over the assets personally.

Thanks for the links

Everyone feels their own feelings.

It might take you a while to process everything.

One more thing…

Make an extra set of keys before you move in.

Sanders is almost 90. You cant count on him to survive his term, much less create a new Party.

No 3rd party has won the Presidency in modern times.

If you want to see change, look at what’s actually worked in the past.

Back in the day, a guy named Jerry Falwell made himself a power in the GOP by a simple trick.

Both Parties, Dems and GOP have local clubs that make the small scale choices that keep things moving. They pick the county clerks and sheriffs. If the local GOP club had had twenty people at the meeting that chose the country clerk, Falwell’s folks would show up with fifty.

After a while, those county clerks were becoming Congresspeople.

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Liquor stores have the best boxes and the clerks hate having to break them down. Go to the local liquor store and ask them for boxes. You’ll get all you need.

Another good trick. Instead of packing delicates like plates with paper, use clean clothes. T-shirts will keep things from breaking and you cut down on the number of boxes.

The Left keeps not voting in hopes the Dems will come to them.

It’s not going to work next time either.

I’m sure that the same people who couldn’t deliver Bernie Sanders an overwhelming win in 2020 can suddenly become savvy pols who can just put together a national third party.

If you want action, do what AOC and the others in her squad did. Work inside the Dem party.

Take a lesson from the right. Back in the 1970s Jerry Falwell decided to take control of the GOP. He did it from the ground up. If the local GOP club had had twenty people show up to the last meeting to pick the next county clerk, Falwell’s people would show up with fifty people. Soon those county clerks and sheriffs were becoming Congresspeople and Senators.

Politics is a game and the left sucks at playing it.

Do yourself a favor and wait.

There’s a good chance you could make your condition worse.

This is when you bite the bullet and talk to a trained professional.

The stupidest thing is that he could have quietly blackmailed the Saudis out of $50 billion on Inauguration Day 2017.

Sounds like the start of a Tony Hillerman [author] Joe Leaphorn mystery. Someone finds a body that looks like it’s a Native American ritual burial, but it’s not…

[see TV show ‘Dark Winds’]