Painting by Joan Baez...
To Dr. Anthony Fauci
Dear Dr. Fauci,
I’ve painted your portrait to honor you and all you are doing for us and for the world. It will be a part of my second art exhibit of “Mischief Makers,” paintings of people who have made meaningful social change without the use of violence.
I don’t imagine you’ve ever thought of it this way, but you are engaging in nonviolent resistance every time you stand in front of the cameras and attempt to educate the public on how to survive the Covid-19 pandemic. You cheerfully continue your task, surrounded by people who are dreaming up every way possible to discredit you and what you bring to us: common sense, scientific facts, some warmth, a bit of humor, and towering moral fortitude. Telling the truth is out of favor with the rich and powerful, particularly these days. You speak truth to their dominion. You take a big risk in doing so.
Corragio, Dr. Anthony Fauci!
If my friends and I can ever be of help to you, you need only let us know. We’ve got your back.
Sincerely,
Joan Baez
I’ve painted your portrait to honor you and all you are doing for us and for the world. It will be a part of my second art exhibit of “Mischief Makers,” paintings of people who have made meaningful social change without the use of violence.
I don’t imagine you’ve ever thought of it this way, but you are engaging in nonviolent resistance every time you stand in front of the cameras and attempt to educate the public on how to survive the Covid-19 pandemic. You cheerfully continue your task, surrounded by people who are dreaming up every way possible to discredit you and what you bring to us: common sense, scientific facts, some warmth, a bit of humor, and towering moral fortitude. Telling the truth is out of favor with the rich and powerful, particularly these days. You speak truth to their dominion. You take a big risk in doing so.
Corragio, Dr. Anthony Fauci!
If my friends and I can ever be of help to you, you need only let us know. We’ve got your back.
Sincerely,
Joan Baez
The 19th Amendment didn’t give women the right to vote. Its language — and effects — were much narrower. [Click] Today’s history lesson.
ReplyDeleteTrump Attacks Biden’s Mental Faculties [Click] The Biden campaign and its allies *should* have seen this coming a hundred miles away, and had counterattacks in the can, ready to go as soon as Trump rolls it out. The first ones ought to hit today.
ReplyDeleteLet’s Check the Polling…
ReplyDeleteAugust 18, 2020 By Taegan Goddard
President Trump on Twitter: “Looking back into history, the response by the ObamaBiden team to the H1N1 Swine Flu was considered a weak and pathetic one. Check out the polling, it’s really bad.”
Here’s Gallup from April 2009: “Americans give the Obama administration high marks for its handling so far of the continuing spread of swine flu, or H1N1 virus, in the United States… 66% of Americans say they approve of how the administration is handling the situation, while 16% disapprove and 17% have no opinion.”
I've been trying to twist this to make some trenchant and brilliantly sardonic point, but it isn't working. Trump is confused, and a blackguard - a dangerous combination.
DeleteI'd say he's psychotic.
DeleteNo, merely psychotic is way too simple for what ails DT. Seriously, it's just one small part of a complex disorder.
Deletehttps://www.healthline.com/health/malignant-narcissism#traits
Well, of course, among other things.
DeleteNetworks Were Forced to Air Most of Convention [Click]
ReplyDeleteCan Republicans Put on a Better Virtual Convention? [probably not] [Click]
Evaluating the First Virtual Convention [Click]
Marianne Williamson: Democratic convention 'like binge watching a Marriott commercial' [Click]
The Convention Has Finally Become What It Always Was [Click] Some good laughs in here, in no small part because they are true. I was well pleased to see a rarely used noun deployed: gasbaggery!
DeleteNot the first. The Greens did it earlier this summer. They didn't have the drag to be televised is all.
DeleteOHIO: As of Tuesday afternoon, there have been at least 109,923 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 3,871 deaths, and 12,436 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
ReplyDeleteAt Least 20 States Will Sue Postal Service [Click]
ReplyDeletePostmaster Will [temporarily] Suspend Operational Changes [Click] Trump’s M.O.: Cave when there is pushback.
Biden Will Keep Polling Until the End [of the campaign] [Click] Unlike HRC.
ReplyDeleteSome redundancies here:
ReplyDeleteSenate Intel Drops Final Russia Probe Report With New Details On Manafort, Stone [Click]
GOP-led Report Reveals Just How Close Manafort Was To Russian Military Intel [Click]
Two notes from politicalwire.com:
The final Senate Intelligence Committee report finds Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort used ten different encrypted messaging apps, including WhatsApp, Wickr, Signal, Threema, Skype, Snapchat, Fiber, Hushmail, WeChat and Voxer.
The final Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 election has some damning details about the day the infamous Access Hollywood tape was released, Politico reports. The Trump campaign team knew about the tape an hour before its release. Roger Stone then told Jerome Corsi to get Julian Assange at Wikileaks to “drop the Podesta emails immediately.” WikiLeaks did so about 30 minutes after the tape was published.
Tiny elephant shrew species, missing for 50 years, rediscovered [Click]
ReplyDeleteFemale-led countries handled coronavirus better [Click] Gee, whoda thunk?
ReplyDeleteWho'd'a thunk indeed. *smile*
DeleteWhat Biden Can Learn From Sanders About the Young Latino Vote [Click] It’s not just the young, or the latinos. Bernie SHOWED UP for everyone in the area who has long been sick and tired of being ignored by the institutional Democrats—e.g. the Clintons, Obama, Biden, and Harris.
ReplyDeleteHear hear!
DeleteVT: 1530 cases (+3)
ReplyDelete58 deaths (13 days)
135 active cases
Recovered 1347(+4)
In Hospital 3( 0)
Tests 114,097 (+874)
So, this is really cool:
ReplyDeleteVermont broke its record for voter turnout in a Presidential primary. More than 156,000 people voted. Former record was about 120,000.
Best of all, 75% of the votes were by mail.
Very good! With the turnout operations launching a couple of months before the election rather than a couple of weeks before (thanks, DT), I shouldn't be surprised if you set a new record in the general election. Just be sure not to have more than 100% of the ballots by mail. [grin]
DeleteVermont knows how to count. Bernie got 15 nominating votes, Biden got 9.
DeleteCurrent (3PM) temperature 107 deg F (“Feels Like 121 deg"), humidity 28%. Record for the date = 110 deg. The weeds in the garden love it.
ReplyDeleteWhoo!! So dangerous. May everyone's electricity remain functional...!
DeleteI just read this column in the WaPo about a gal who lives in NC and works in Berkeley. [Click] She’s a Berniac and is trying to justify voting for Joe; she had looked at Howie. I contacted her and told her NC is too close—she should vote for Joe, and I will vote for Howie. I seem to recall an online broker for such vote exchanges in years past. Maybe I will look for one.
ReplyDeleteRespectfully disagree. We all need to vote AGAINST TRUMP. Our house is on fire. Not time to train the hose on the dog house instead. With the amount of cheating trump is doing I think we will need every single vote to get him out. And we must get him out or I'm going to get sent to prison.
DeleteAh, if only we could vote against anyone; I'd sure do that, but it is not permitted. We can only vote for someone. We can't even cast a non-binding "none of the above" vote. In California the Republican Party is functionally extinct; that's why the major parties don't campaign here for the presidential election.
DeleteLatest Berkeley IGS poll (best California poll) shows 67% for Biden, 28% for Trump, and moving toward Biden.
DeleteI love you, Susan. I'll bail you out.
DeleteUS Postal Service delays force Department of Veterans Affairs to shift prescription delivery methods [in certain areas] [Click]
ReplyDeleteCindy McCain Will Speak for Biden [Click]
ReplyDeleteI had no idea Joan Baez was multi-talented. She is quite a gifted painter.
ReplyDeleteYes, I am in awe...!
DeleteWhy TV networks will only broadcast one hour rather than two per night of DNC: because they’d also have to air Trump’s in full—lies, warts, and all. [Click] And they still have no idea how it will be “organized.” The Dems gave them a detailed plan well in advance.
ReplyDeleteCalifornia governor declares state of emergency as dozens of wildfires rage [Click] Gee—it’s worse than I realized. The sky to the north appears smokey. The photo of a fire approaching a house shows that the owners have not followed very long-standing firebreak standards.
ReplyDeleteIt's so very sad. I can't even imagine it with such high heat day by day, fueling the fires.
DeleteYes, that's very hard on the firemen, many of whom are convicts, and short-staffed because of coronavirus. Also because of the coronavirus they can't get the out of state help they normally receive.
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