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Great show guys! Thank you for continuing to podcast and tell us about that great state "Middle West." Here, In Western NY, I keep chopping wood (literally) and carrying water. For all of us - we have got to organize and get involved at the local level to BE THE CHANGERS we keep waiting for! I do hope I'll get to vote in our primary and special election (for NY-27, votemcmurrary.com!) on 4-28, but I suspect the whole thing will be delayed. RetiredPatriot
My father bought me a copy of Lucifer's Hammer for my 15th birthday, and I read that and Stephen King's The Stand, which I've been thinking about of and on for the last two weeks, around the same time, my attention span being much longer back then. That was my first Niven/Pournelle novel, my introduction to the term "dramatis personae," and what I remember most from it were the feces-covered bungee sticks and the diabetic scientist being found dead under a tree in the epilogue because no one in the senator's compound had the means to synthesize insulin. As I'm sitting here on (hopefully) temporary layoff—"Good ti-imes! Ain't we lucky we got 'em?"—maybe I'll make time to read Ringworld and The Ringworld Engineers, which I've had copies of for years.
I've been linking to that Cuomo speech pretty much everywhere I comment and noting that any politician worth their salt would be capitalizing on this opportunity to step into the breach and claim their chunk of history, but the goddamn Republicans decided that we should have a non-politician do a politician's job and thus we get Fergus.
Todd Rundgren is teaming up with Joe Walsh (the rock star, not the creep), Don Was, and I believe Daryl Hall to re-record a song of his (from the "A Wizard A True Star" album) called "Just One Victory" to give to Democratic candidates to use in their campaigns for free.
"If you don't know what to do about a world of trouble
You can pull it through if you need to and if
You believe it's true, it will surely happen
Shining still, to give us the will
Bright as the day, to show us the way
Somehow, someday
We need just one victory and we're on our way
Prayin' for it all day and fightin' for it all night
Give us just one victory, it will be all right
We may feel about to fall but we go down fighting
You will hear the call if you only listen
Underneath it all we are here together shining still"
I had sorta forgotten about that song, having worn the grooves off of the other, more psychedelic side of that LP multiple times. Todd himself was blunt about it: "It's not just Trump, we have to get rid of all of these banana Republicans, and if this is the way I can help make that happen, here it is."
Thank you again for the podcast. We're doing OK up here so far. It's been snowing for five days now, so we haven't gone anywhere. The forecast says it will let up tomorrow or maybe Monday, which is good because soon we'll need to shovel the car free and drive down the mountain into Oakhurst for groceries again.
PS: I've been voting by mail since 2010 and that's how I know that it should be the main method for voting. Pretty much the reverse of what we have now: most ballots cast by mail or in the drop boxes, and in person voting for everyone that doesn't work for.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
From the corridor of blasphemy
If the rapture is to come and many pray for its arrival.
After it leaves, I shall be free and grateful. And the religious right shall recieve their just deserves.
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