A handful of words often tell you everything you need to know. When asked, who is Kate Tempest? She gives a brief, albeit telling answer. “Kate Tempest is the words,” she responds. You haven’t ever seen, heard or experienced anyone quite like her. Tempest uncovers the missing link between the Golden Ages of literature and hip-hop. The …
For Biden to win in November he needs to deliver what he said Bernie could not. The former Vice President must do this after killing Bernie’s campaign like Wellington and the Coalition that brought down Napoleon: No… more like Lyndon B Johnson signing overdue Civil Rights legislation after JFK was killed by the interests of …
Not much different to report from my corner of the world this week. Grocery stores are tightening their social distancing policies, almost by the day, with some items returning to the shelves and others disappearing. Authorities seem increasingly to be acknowledging publicly that the situation is going to last much longer than was previously hoped, …
I never met Dr. Wouter Nolet. The 90 minute drive into the African bush, to visit Masanga Hospital, was not pleasant. My colleague, a plastic surgeon from Ireland, had arranged for the four of us to make the journey in the back of a small ambulance, as the Land Rover, owned by the Holy Spirit …
Just finished my first week of working from home, and I can report a few developments from my tiny corner of the world. First of all, as you can see from my pictures, my pets are not at all perturbed by this recent course of events. There is something to be said of the bliss …
Bob Dylan’s first new song in 8 years is about the JFK Assassination and it’s’ cultural aftermath. If anyone should know how to recreate a diaphanous poetry-slam vibe of art, politics and loss beginning at 12:30 pm on November 22, 1963 and continuing to the present, it’s Bob Dylan. He does so with pastoral delicacy …
Let’s pick a day for Grandparents Day and found it on the fact that many of us stood up for the idea of not killing Grandpa and Grandma. …and some of we’re all for it, on the outside chance it might improve our 401k situation and there was some inheritance involved. Lets pick a day …
The following communique landed near Davin Michael Stedman during our modern equivalent of a V2 blackout of London, the Coronavirus Quarantine of 2020. These words are reposted here with permission: Hey Davin, did you know that I grew up with German Rocket engineers in Huntsville, Alabama? As a kid I used to play monkey bars …
Those of you who read my post on visiting Shanghai last month might have noted my expressed hope that the coronavirus, which had sent my daughter stateside when her English school closed, would not follow us home. Though both of us, currently living in my home in Redding, CA, are healthy and hope to stay …
What time are we getting quarantined here in Washington? You name it, you win the first the first jar of BBQ Sauce The Staxx Brothers produce. It’s going to be delicious. And it’s about to get way more weird. People came in the shop and I asked people how they felt. They for the most …
Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang sent out this message today: Hello, I hope that you and yours are doing great at home. I am writing this from home with my two boys; their schools sent them home because of COVID-19. Evelyn and I are able to accommodate our boys being home from school. Many families …
Tonight I am going to do what I always do. I’m going to put on my headphones that I oft cover with a turkey bag for a good swim. I’m going lace up my fake Jordans. Then I’m going to run four kilometers. I slap this sign marking Providence Hospital and then I turn around, …
Debate: Biden says we need Emergency Socialism. Bernie says we aren’t ready for this crisis because we haven’t adopted Democratic Socialism. Either way, nobody can do a god damn thing without using social services and socialism to help us in the crisis. Are you ready for a New Deal yet? How about Universal Healthcare? Are …
People be like “just stay home for two weeks and self quarantine” But that’s not how America works. That’s how Bernie Sanders’ America works. But America just wants to project that we are a livable country full of livable wages. But the truth is that a lot of people that have been talking a lot …
Which pro athletes are getting still paid and which ones are going to going to be selling off those mansions? The money gets sucked up from the lower and middle class, some of it trickles it will down. The bread, the wine, …but Romans, they have cancelled The Circus. It’s going to be a strange …
As we know, the Democratic Presidential Candidate, Andrew Yang, whom I supported from his campaign’s infancy, unfortunately had to bow out of the process several weeks ago. $$ F**k Citizen’s United. https://basicincome.org/news/2020/02/united-states-andrew-yang-steps-down-from-presidential-candidacy/ Here is a great article to educate yourself about a Universal Basic Income. https://basicincome.org/news/2020/01/three-misconceptions-about-yangs-freedom-dividend/ UBI allows freedom, and that economic concept found in …
The handwashing scene, “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand…” is Act 5 Scene 1 of MacBeth. It may come up in conversation this week, if it hasn’t already. –
In times of crisis people are often driven towards the God as a concept and a belief. Lennon once sang, “God is a concept By which we measure Our pain I’ll say it again God is a concept By which we measure Our pain” Part of why Americans have parted ways with organized religion in …
The True Socialists are on Wall Street and They’re not the Democratic Kind, by Davin Michael Stedman
As the stock market tanks we have a real opportunity to make a much more important correction to our economy. The stock market is based on the faith of Billionaires in how much money they can extract from the people of the United States while limiting their exposure to such dangers as increasing wages and …
Things you think about during the opening ceremonies of a potential Pandemic. The money. Wash your hands they say. Don’t touch your eyes they say. But every minute a cashier is handling a different person’s money. Depositing it into a register with everyone else’s money. Touching everyone’s ID. Crowds gather to a Costco to gather …
So you think Biden has the African American vote. That’s cool. Maybe he’ll do a concert with a major African American act like 98 Degrees. I saw Rage and Ozomatli rocking out in protest at the Democratic Convention in the year 2000. Bernie is sharing the stage with Chuck f☆cking D and Public Enemy. This …
This is still tripping out. The Beatles played Ed Sullivan Feb 9th, 1964. Bernie’s now famous photo of him resisting arrest in Chicago at a civil rights demonstration was August 1963. This dude has literally been on the same message since before Dylan first got The Beatles stoned, which August 28th 1964. For any of …
Bernie Sanders is so old he can remember hearing FDR’s Fireside Chats. He’s so old Hitler was hunting his down people when he could talk…and walk. He’s so old he’s outlived the idealism of the Boomer generation, and he’s too old to be a Boomer. And he is still fighting. He is not having senior …
On President’s Day February 17 I ventured down to Tacoma, WA with two others to see and hear Senator Bernie Sanders speak. As I approached the Dome, I saw long lines snake around the structure approximately a mile long and often as many as three people deep. The event began with some entertainment, a couple …
Last August, my daughter began an 18-month contract to teach English in China. I decided that this was a unique travel opportunity, so after months of planning, arrangements and probably about four grand out of my wallet, I flew to Shanghai for a week to be with her over Christmas. It was an adventure of …
Imagine how much money was invested in making people believe the New Deal wasn’t a success. Imagine how much it took to get all these Americans to believe The Civil War wasn’t about Slavery. I just knock old people out with facts like the preacher who touches parishioners and they pass out with facts they …
I clipped the following quote and it sat on my dresser for a short while. I cannot remember the source and I do not recall the writer. “But what I find most abhorrent about lawyers is how they play games, use word tricks, set traps, are not so much after justice as after winning, outfoxing …
More From the Yang Gang: Presidential candidate Andrew Yang recently yukked it up with Bill Maher on HBO before an enthusiastic crowd: During the intro, you see Mr. Yang’s book, The War on Normal People. A signature issue in Mr. Yang’s campaign is a basic income guarantee. I have been a member of the Basic …
This message was sent from the Andrew Yang for President campaign to all supporters today: East Portland — We take this day each year to commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who fought to bring justice and equality to all people, from every walk of life. We put together a video …