Simon Paynton

jakelafort wrote:
Oh, i remember, i recall, not that i forgot at all. The afternoon, the street; sweet convergence then unknown but put down as a given with the pencil of intent in which true love is written. Organs smitten, covergence riven, the Sack of Suds the protagonist bitten.

I love all of this. I’ve missed this, Jake.

PopeBeanie wrote:
(Hmm, now I wonder if there were any connections to religion in McCarthyism.)

I finally answered my own stupid question. I say stupid, I should have remembered history, e.g. the term “Red Scare”. Here’s part of what I got from Gemini AI:

“Godless Communism” vs. “Christian America”: A central rhetorical strategy was to portray…

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jakelafort wrote:
I served up a tee ball and i could smash the shit out of it. Instead i will be quiescent and evanscent.

Thank you! It would likely go “over my head” anyway.

_Robert_ wrote:
Nothing interesting about it, Pope.

I really hope that view prevails, someday after Trump/MAGAism.

In my head I’ve started trying to compare Trumpism with McCarthyism. They’re both historically dark eras for USA, with some kind of group human nature built in that I want to learn about. Comparable to cults, in fact. (Hmm, now I…[Read more]

I wonder what ICE will do with all the money they’re about to get? We’re living in “interesting times”.
18 minutes:

Jared Bernstein, former chair of Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, explains why he and other long-time “budget doves” now believe America’s debt has become dangerously unsustainable. He now considers himself a Hawk because America’s budget math just got a lot more dangerous.

For decades, low interest rates relative to economic growth ma…[Read more]

Wagwan Jake 🙂

@Strega – I feel less weird about it now 

I don’t think you have ever written anything that was not well reasoned and on point.

I used the word ‘It’ as I knew from the tone of the question that I was just dealing with another one of ‘Them’. A useful idiot spewing “gotcha” type questions who had no comprehension of what had happened in Israel and did not even have the basic facts correct. I only bother speaking with ‘them’ for a few minutes when I can see that I am being…[Read more]

@Reg THANK YOU!! I feel less weird about it now 🙂

Just a few comments.

I’ve only really come across the singling out of Jews since I’ve been in the USA.

I can say the same Strega. I lived for a few years on the East End Road in East Finchley, London. The population was mainly English, Jewish (English and East EuropeanRussian), Indian and Irish. But nobody cared about that. To the point that it…[Read more]

@jake I am horrified at the way you grew up with such animosity. I’m full of admiration for the fact that you’ve turned out to be so decent.

You’re much more tribal here in America. People really like labels and grouping terms. Maybe it’s because you had to invade the land you live in, and had to manage indigenous peoples, so it’s a Cowboys a…[Read more]

@enco  There is no perfection, and arguably no equality in real life.  An example of equity might be the allocation of school bus costs on a headcount basis, even though some students live much further from school than others.

It is precisely because there is no such thing as equality, that equity steps into the breach.