Displaying 91 To 120 Of 1,116 Comments The Radical Chic Pay Lip Service to the Poor So would I, if I had her money. I hate to say this about anyone’s creative effort, but I must say that this is not a good article. It is a shallow mean-spirited attack, and not even a good one, being mostly a simple string of unfounded assumptions about a woman who does not deserve such treatment. I found that this same article has been cross-posted to the Daily Kos Open Salon and The Huffington Post “Union of Bloggers.” http://huffingtonpostunionofbloggers.org/2011/06/27/the-radical-chic-pay-lip-service-to-the-poor/ I can’t help but wish that it does not influence very many people. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 28, 2011 @ 3:29 pm I consider myself “on the Left,” and I sure don’t consider any of the aforementioned figures to be oracles. I don’t consider anyone an oracle. To be honest, I don’t envy anyone who does feel that kind of hero-worship for a public figure. Nobody’s that good. Nobody’s right all the time. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 28, 2011 @ 3:04 pm I must have missed what Katrina Vanden Huevel’s great crime was here. Was it that she said “remember the poor?” Even if every one of your assumptions about her personal beliefs and feelings were 100% correct, would she be so wrong to say “remember the poor?” What would you rather her say, “forget the poor?” Lord knows I don’t come from a privileged background, but I’ve heard KVH speak in interviews, and I’ve read her articles in The Nation, and I like what she has to say. She seems to have her heart in the right place, and she seems to want to try to do the right thing. Sometimes people are born to privilege. It happens. Sometimes I do feel resentment, to be honest. I wouldn’t be human if I didn’t. But when people ARE born to privilege, what should they do? One path they can take is the path of a man like George W. Bush, who failed upward over and over again, using his family connections, until he was handed the top position of the land. All the while, he never saw the need to educate himself, or to see past the small-minded politics of the Far Right. Katrina Vanden Huevel has not done that. She chose an entirely different path. Frankly, even though I have been poor and lived in a trailer myself, and have had family members who can’t read very well (and I even play the banjo,) I just can’t feel disgusted with her. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 28, 2011 @ 6:56 am Weekend Music Thread – Love and Marriage I’ll bet Jack Black had a really good time playing Jesus in this. I also want to add my congratulations to the happy couples in New York who are legally allowed to get married now. This court decision must be great news for these folks. Best wishes to you all! » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 26, 2011 @ 5:11 pm I hesitated to add this one, because although it is about a wedding, it’s about a wedding that never happened. She Moved Through The Fair, sung here by John McCormack: » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 26, 2011 @ 10:57 am Good song. Yes, that’s a ukulele alright. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 26, 2011 @ 7:28 am Khirad – I can’t sit still watching this. What an infectious beat! This is going straight to my iPod. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 26, 2011 @ 5:01 am This is a good song for an Italian Wedding: the Tarantella: Very fun to play on the mandolin! » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 25, 2011 @ 2:38 pm Mendelssohn’s famous Wedding March, played here by Queen: Who knew that Ming the Merciless was a fan of Mendelssohn? » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 25, 2011 @ 2:29 pm Very entertaining little clip! (and these dancers show much more coordination than I’ll ever have.) » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 25, 2011 @ 1:19 pm This is great! What a performance! Thanks for posting this. I appreciate the additional information too. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 25, 2011 @ 12:25 pm They sure look like they’re having fun! » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 25, 2011 @ 12:21 pm I’ve always liked the melody of Hava Nagila, a staple at traditional Jewish weddings. Here’s a good version on solo acoustic guitar: » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 25, 2011 @ 12:18 pm Here’s a really nice folk version of White Wedding by Jason Merritt: » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 25, 2011 @ 12:08 pm WATCH LIVE: Pres. Obama’s Speech on Afghanistan WTS – Personally, I think this is a good idea. It’s a much more humane approach to the problem than the military solution that we are engaged in. There’s plenty of wide-open spaces in the U.S. in which the Afghani people could live. But if this relocation policy were actually implemented, the anti-immigrant conservatives here would… well, I don’t know WHAT they would do. They sure wouldn’t be happy about it. When presidential-hopeful Hermann Cain talked about securing our border with a Great Wall similar to China’s Great Wall, with electrified barbed wire on top and a moat with alligators, many of us liberals laughed at him. But the Far Right anti-immigrant people did not laugh. They DO feel that strongly about it. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 23, 2011 @ 3:21 pm Watch Current TV or We’ll Burn This Flag! iTunes, eh? I’ll check that out. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 21, 2011 @ 4:02 pm I don’t have a TV, but I do like Current’s website, and I get clickable news headlines from there automatically. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 21, 2011 @ 4:01 pm ….. on the “BitTorrent” issue… Abby – I’m glad you mentioned this. The fact that intellectual property rights are bought and sold like any other commodity certainly should be part of the moral equation. It’s kind of strange that in our society, the artists who produce art, the laborers who produce goods, and the service workers who provide service are not respected more than the people who manage that wealth. Those who do not produce anything (but do move money around) are considered the productive ones by our society today. That seems a little backward to me. The ability to manage money is even seen by some as the ultimate measure of intelligence. I’ve often heard people say, “So-and-so MUST be smarter than me; So-and-so has more money.” Supporters of Sarah Palin on the HP will sometimes defend her intelligence by saying “Well, she’s smarter than you liberals; see how much money she’s made?” Mozart was lousy at handling money, and he was buried in a pauper’s grave. I suppose that by today’s standards he was an idiot. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 19, 2011 @ 7:14 am The Weekend Music Thread – Water Good sir, you have really fine taste in music, I have to say. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 18, 2011 @ 6:13 pm Such a sweetheart you are! I’m sure your singing is fine. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 18, 2011 @ 6:08 pm But I WOULD like that! » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 18, 2011 @ 5:56 pm No, not yet. Here they are: American Pie About that American Pie song… A lot of people I know don’t like Chevys; they like Ford instead. But this song would be hard to sing with the Ford in the lyrics, because there isn’t a good rhyme! I guess we could sing “Took my Ford to the fjord because the fjord was dry…” But that wouldn’t be very American-sounding, I’m afraid. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 18, 2011 @ 5:49 pm Excellent! » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 18, 2011 @ 5:48 pm Coupla oldies: Splish splash I was takin’ a bath, long about a Saturday night… Tears on my pillow, pain in my heart… » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 18, 2011 @ 5:27 pm Love it. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 18, 2011 @ 5:15 pm From a fellow artist, I really appreciate that. It’s my first serious attempt at painting the ocean. It was tough to do. I felt like I couldn’t get the fineness of the spray right, and I kept fighting the idea that my rendition was looking like play-doh. You’ve probably seen Turner’s painting that I tried to reproduce, but in case you haven’t, it looks like this:[img]http://www.backtoclassics.com/images/pics/josephmallordwilliamturner/josephmallordwilliamturner_theshipwreck.jpg[/img] Man, that guy could really paint. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 18, 2011 @ 5:05 pm Jimi Hendrix! I forgot about this waterfall song. Good tune. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 18, 2011 @ 5:01 pm Tears are water too. Check out this cover of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” by one of the best ukulele players in the world, Jake Shimabukuro:
» Posted By Buddy McCue On June 18, 2011 @ 4:54 pm True ’nuff. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 18, 2011 @ 4:50 pm I have that album. David Grisman is the mandolin player in that as well. I wish I could play the mandolin half as well as that dude. » Posted By Buddy McCue On June 18, 2011 @ 4:49 pmComments Posted By Buddy McCue
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/26/988828/-The-Radical-Chic-Pay-Lip-Service-to-the-Poor
http://open.salon.com/blog/enlightened_belle/2011/06/26/the_radical_chic_pay_lip_service_to_the_poor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-xsosv6uM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVMLqeNwDlE
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