Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

Random musings on whatever catches my attention that day

David F

Midnight Special

The Midnight Special was a train that went past the Central Texas Penitentiary every night at, well, midnight. Its headlight would shine through the windows. The men inside drew hope of freedom from this nightly occurrence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezR896BYu0E Lead Belly, 1939 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu7gafphe9M This is probably the…

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David F

Guns Make Us Safer

click thru for all the best logic That's what the NRA keeps telling us, right? Arm teachers! Arm preachers! Good guy with a gun! Blah blah blah. They pretend we're living in a movie: High Noon. But watch what they do, not what they say.

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David F

Golden Apples

Thinking about an Apple-related post, so this is something for the interim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alIUW_JY03I ...also a great Bradbury collection. From the poem by Yeats: I went out to the hazel wood, Because a fire was in my head, And cut and peeled a hazel wand, And…

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David F

Redistribution

(Photo by: George Kraychyk/Hulu) Legalizing rape, that's what supposedly serious people are talking about now. Inspired by sexual, as opposed to religious, terrorists such as Alek Minassian and Eliot Rodger, who have somehow made mainstream a conversation about what they are calling "redistribution of sex." For those of…

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