With the imminent expiration of DACA in March 2018, the ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU of Southern California and the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties have initiated a campaign, “CA is my home”, to pressure key California representatives to actively support the House bipartisan Dream Act and pass the bill by December 2017. The key representative for the San Diego area is Darrell Issa. In the last election Issa lost to his opponent, Doug Applegate, by about 7 percentage points in San Diego County. It was the Orange County voters that tipped the total in his favor, allowing him to retain his seat. Issa should be feeling vulnerable. [Read more…]
For Those Who Blacked Out and Missed It, Here’s a Brief Recap of Last Year’s Election Night Primal Scream | Video Worth Watching
Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock share a bit of “Welcome to My World” with SNL cast members representing stunned HRC supporters after last year’s historic election night returns. [Read more…]
Sam Bee on Mass Shootings and the Boyfriend Loophole | Video Worth Watching
Samantha Bee released this segment about the relationship between mass shootings and domestic violence four days before the latest mass shooting at a Texas church which left 26 people dead and another 20 wounded.
She didn’t know that the shooter, 26 year old Devin Kelley “beat his wife, cracked his toddler stepson’s skull and was kicked out of the military. He drove away friends, drew attention from the police and abused his dog.” [Read more…]
‘I do not come to you as a complete stranger’, Nazi Rally, New York City, 1939 | Video Worth Watching
“A Night at the Garden” contains archival footage of a 1939 “Pro-America Rally” held by the German-American Bund, in conjunction with demagogue Father Charles Coughlin’s Christian Front. An almost capacity crowd of 20,000 was in attendance that night at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
The main speaker is Hitler knock-off Fritz Kuhn, a naturalized German immigrant and head of the Bund. [Read more…]
The Human Voice as Instrument – ‘Roomful of Teeth’ Brings It On | Video Worth Watching
The human voice as instrument …
The second selection of this NPR Tiny Desk Concert performance is Rinde Eckert’s “Cesca’s View” which incorporates yodeling as a vocal technique. This a capella performance by the women of “Roomful of Teeth” expands the limited association of that technique from strictly Alpen herders to the vocal repertoire in general.
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‘Pursuit’ – a Time-Lapse Extravaganza of Cloud and Thunderstorm Poetry in Motion | Video Worth Watching
While the weather here in San Diego hasn’t been as dramatic as depicted in this video, it has definitely taken a more winter-like turn in the last few days. We’re not likely to see the kind of activity captured in this video in the San Diego region, but thankfully storm-chaser Mike Olbinski created a montage of some of these dramatic Plains states events. Near the end (beginning at around 6:18) it features a rare cloud formation—undulatus asperitas—only recently acknowledged by the World Meteorological Organization in its International Cloud Atlas as a distinct category. [Read more…]
Seven Reasons Trump’s Corporate Tax Cuts Make No Sense | Video Worth Watching
So, Trump’s tax plan is supposed to be a YUGE tax cut for the middle-class? Yeah, right! Robert Reich lays out the arguments against the kind of tax cut legislation that the current administration is pushing. Policies like these have been tried before and their track record is abysmal. And somehow deficits of upward of $1.5 trillion are no longer a problem? Get real! [Read more…]
A Possible Silver-Lining to Puerto Rico’s Electrical Grid Reconstruction? | Video Worth Watching
Could the need to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid provide the opportunity to construct a community controlled sustainable infrastructure? Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman spoke to Ángel Figueroa Jaramillo, the head of UTIER, the electrical workers’ union in Puerto Rico, about Elon Musk’s proposal to make Puerto Rico the model of sustainable energy. She also visited the Casa Sol Bed and Breakfast in San Juan, which runs entirely on solar power and was able to provide electricity and drinking water to neighbors in advance of the city’s restoration of power. [Read more…]
On The Ground With The Rohingya Muslim Refugees Escaping Myanmar | Video Worth Watching
The Rohingya Muslims are still facing ethnic cleansing in their homeland of Myanmar (Burma). AJ+ investigator Jason Motlagh documents the conditions facing the latest refugees and hears them relate their harrowing tales of persecution and flight. [Read more…]
Special Halloween Edition – Animated Frogs; Spells Cast | Video Worth Watching
How about something zany and deranged for the Halloween holiday? I don’t think Sally Cruikshank has her own DSM category yet, but I think she might rate one. Here’s her “Face Like a Frog” featuring music by Danny Elfman and Oingo Boingo, including one of my faves, the segment “Don’t Go In the Basement”. And for something goofy but a little bit creepy, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ doing his screamin’ thing with “I Put a Spell On You”. Brrrr! [Read more…]
Day of the Dead Parade in Mexico City Honors Quake Victims and Rescuers | Video Worth Watching
The actual Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos) isn’t until October 31st, but this year on Saturday, October 28th, Mexico City held its second annual Day of the Dead parade. In addition to the typical Catrinas, Calaveras and Grim Reapers, leading this year’s parade was a contingent of aid workers in tribute to the rescuers of Mexico’s September 19th earthquake. They marched at times with upraised fists, the gesture that was used to call for quiet when attempting to listen for sounds of survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings. [Read more…]
Morphing Into a Halloween Mood With Laurie Anderson’s ‘O Superman’ | Video Worth Watching
“Well you don’t know me, but I know you …” Creeping up on Halloween, and for some reason Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman” seeped into my consciousness with its juxtaposition of bland cliché (“Hi. I’m not home right now, but if you want to leave a message, just start talking at the sound of the tone.”) and the weirdly minatory (“This is the hand—the hand that takes.”). Combine that with the insistent, brilliant, scintillating and repetitive soundtrack and that sets a Halloween mood for me. [Read more…]
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