u may have read about singer tony bennett's ordeal with alzheimer's disease in aarp magazine. according to this recently published article, at age 95 the disease is quite advanced and disabling. he's effectively lost his mind. but amazingly, he's still able to sing and perform songs he knows well on stage to an audience. his talent hasn't left him.
i just watched what has been billed as his farewell performance on network tv, cbs, with co-star lady gaga. knowing his story, i became emotional watching them, especially him, and the audience's appreciation and his ability to still appreciate being so appreciated. lady gaga, a prodigious talent herself, lent a lot of class to the show, helping to highlight tony and his still impressive voice and stage persona. it's sad knowing how fleeting life is.https://www.google.com/search?q=tony+bennett+aarp&rlz=1C1CHKW_enUS486US743&oq=tony+bennett+aarp&aqs=chrome..69i57.4874j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8on a less uplifting note, it's holiday time again. time once more for big media in america, including the highly respected pbs, to promote religious (primarily christian) propaganda, like the 'documentaries' it's FRONTLINE program is airing tonight that attempt to lend creedence to the evidence free idea that jesus christ actually lived, that the christian gospels are at least somewhat historical, rather than completely made up bs.https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/did-jesus-exist/https://www.google.com/search?q=pbs+frontline+jesus+to+christ&rlz=1C1CHKW_enUS486US743&oq=pbs+frontline+jesus&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l2.10037j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Monday, November 29, 2021
Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Pathetic!
president biden has refused to raise taxes on fossil fuels. on top of that, now he's going to temporarily bring down gasoline prices by flooding the market with oil reserves. if i heard correctly, this action is in conjunction with some other nations, including china, whose leaders are concerned about the political implications of higher fuel prices and sluggish economies.
this demonstrates for the umpteenth time that world leaders only pay lip service to addressing the root cause of catastrophic climate change: fossil fuel consumption and it's attendant economic development, including deforestation and industrial agriculture. and that's in the case when they even acknowledge the existence of the problem, as 1/2 of america's corporate political establishment is loathe to do.whatever happened to the concept of peak oil and peak everything? a couple of decades ago it seems like the problem of our grossly unsustainable consumption culture was talked about more than it is currently. is this progress?! do sheeple in general or world leaders in particular believe that by ignoring them, these problems will simply disappear? it seems so.i think our species has feces for brains. we're just pathetic! and doomed. dystopian and doomed.
Friday, November 12, 2021
Veterans Day
'war is hell. there ain't 2 ways about it. it takes away your innocence, and u can't get it back.' -a combat veteran
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