Michael-Patrick Harrington's Blog, page 23
July 25, 2021
The Faces
Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Kenney Jones Reunite for New Faces Recordings Wood also revealed that he’s working with Mick Jagger on new songs for a Tattoo You 40th-anniversary package
July 24, 2021
The death of the Republican party
“Conservatives who are not pro-white supremacy, pro-conspiracy, anti-science, and chock-full of grievances will need to create a new political party someday…”
Strangers on a train: The dark bargain that destroyed the Republican Party Old-line Republicans signed on to an unpleasant but temporary plan. Hitchcock’s classic explains what happened next
July 23, 2021
Brandi!
Watch Brandi Carlile Perform a Soaring ‘Right on Time’ on ‘Fallon’ New single will appear on Carlile’s upcoming album ‘In These Silent Days’
Race baiting
Fox “News”…race baiting? Nah…
How Fox News is making a network out of race baiting | CNN Business One evening earlier this month, a White rage-filled man sat behind a desk, looked into a camera, and began to rant about how something must be done to “save” the United States before “we become Rwanda,” a not-so-subtle reference to the horrific genocide that occurred in the African country decades a…
The Guardians
Finally the Cleveland organization woke up…
Cleveland Indians changing name to Cleveland Guardians | CNN The Cleveland Indians are changing their name next season to the Cleveland Guardians, the Major League Baseball club announced Friday morning, after the current moniker drew criticism for decades from Native Americans.
July 22, 2021
January 6 video & audio
Listen & watch this clip from January 6th’s insurrection. Tourists? Not. BLM, antifa? Um, no. The GOP loves the cops? See for yourself. This is a clip of a man trying to subvert the will of the people; this is a clip of the man’s followers trying to steal an election.
Listen to the Crowd in This Clip From January 6 This is not what tourists sound like.
July 14, 2021
Vinyl problems…
Why Are Independent Artists and Labels Turning Away From Vinyl? Faced with interminable manufacturing delays, some of music’s DIY players are giving up on the beloved format.
The little sister of liberty…
Statue of Liberty’s ‘little sister’ takes up residence in Washington, DC One hundred and thirty-five years after the Statue of Liberty was formally unveiled in New York Harbor, her “little sister” has taken up residence in front of the French ambassador’s home in Washington, DC.
The anti-science party strikes again…
This is crazy! Read about the Republicans and children’s rights, as it comes to getting vaccinated.
Opinion: Tennessee vaccine official’s story reveals an ugly truth about GOP and children’s rights Jill Filipovic writes that the danger inherent in ideological partisan divides over Covid-19 vaccination is evident in Tennessee, where the firing of Dr. Michelle Fiscus reinforces the enduring irony that the GOP, the “pro-life” party, doesn’t believe that children, including teens, have basic right…
Heather Cox Richardson
“Are you on the side of truth or lies; fact or fiction; justice or injustice; democracy or autocracy?”
“We are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War,” Biden said today…. I’m not saying this to alarm you; I’m saying this because you should be alarmed.”
We must, President Biden said, have “the will to save and strengthen our democracy.”
You need to read Heather Cox Richardson’s latest dispatch.
July 13, 2021 “Are you on the side of truth or lies; fact or fiction; justice or injustice; democracy or autocracy?” In a speech at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia today, President Joe Biden asked his audience to take a stand as he called defending the right to vote in America, “a test of our tim…
