Read MoreYou know Alex.
He’s our 12-year-old ginger boy, adopted from a homeless shelter in Washington, D.C. when he was a kitten. He’s the only cat in history to have played a hand of poker at the old Binion’s Horseshoe, which happened a few months before the place closed down.
Alex is retired now and living comfortably in Las Vegas. He spends most of his life sleeping.
Read MoreSheldon Adelson is one of the world’s richest people. He’s the majority owner of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, which owns and operates The Venetian. He’s become online poker’s most outspoken opponent, launching what amounts to a smear campaign of lies and gross misrepresentations against online gaming, and poker players. Adelson has even gone as far as to claim poker is not a game of skill. “Just a bunch of baloney,” he says.
Read MoreDid you ever stop to think why the United States has more people locked up in prison than any country in the world?
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Read MoreListen up you rust belt ass hats. Any joker with a pulse and a tank of gas can drive in a foot of snow. That’s easy. When it snows a foot or more, it’s like sand. Pretty much like driving in Arizona. Your driving skills aren’t superior to everyone else’s. You’ve just got good road traction, and maybe some snow chains. It’s not you, dummy.
Read MoreThe pyramids were built by fools. Idiots.
Read MoreThe very fact that we have come to expect the State of the Union to entertain us like some kind of Stephen Spielberg movie, while Washington suffers from its lowest approval ratings in history, illustrates the disconnect between imagery and reality.
Read MoreMany Americans think our National Anthem should be changed.
They insist “The Star-Spangled Banner” isdifficult to sing, which is true. They insist the song penned by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 glorifies violence, which is true. They say there are far better arrangements of music that symbolize our national aspirations, such as “America the Beautiful,” which is true.
Indeed, there are a number of very valid reasons why the current National Anthem makes no sense at all.
But there’s also a very good reason why we should keep it.
Read MoreWhen you were elected, and then re-elected 15 months ago, so many of us were filled with hope. You might have been truly a transformational figure in our nation’s history at a critical time, instead of the guy who just so happens to occupy the White House until the next election cycle. You still have that chance. But time is running out. Fast.
Pete Seeger
(1919 – 2014)
An extraordinary man.
A wonderful life.
A powerful message.
An unwavering commitment.
It’s 1:03 am PST.
I was just about to turn in for the night and go to bed when I saw the sad news that Pete Seeger had passed away. He was 94.
Wow, what a life.
Please do yourself a favor, where ever you are. No matter what your political beliefs. No matter whether or not you know this man’s name or not, or understood what songs he sang or what he stood for.
We owe him a moment of our time today, and I beg you to give it to him. Take a few minutes to learn something about him, or listen to one of his songs (Where Have All the Flowers Gone?, Turn, Turn, Turn, We Shall Overcome, to name a few), or watch a video on YouTube and learn more about the things he believed in.
I can’t imagine a man who lived as full a life as Pete Seeger. I can’t envision a greater joy than giving and sharing his soul, as he did for nearly a century. I can’t fathom that on the very night after the evening that was to honor the music, one of the pioneers of American music and spirit is no longer with us.
This land is your land, Pete Seeger. This land is my land, too.
Thanks to you and your music, this land was made for you and me. [See Footnote]
VISIT THE PETE SEEGER WIKI PAGE HERE
2007 documentary trailer on Pete Seeger HERE which has been appearing this month on HBO:
Footnote: “This Land is Your Land” was actually written by Woodie Guthrie but was often performed by Pete Seeger.
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