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"I was blamed for blocking the Suez Canal." - Marwa Elselehdar: https://www.bbc/world/news/

"You can’t have the light without the dark." - Bob Ross Sex, Deceit, and Scandal: The Ugly War Over Bob Ross’ Ghost https://news.yahoo/news/

That's what it says on an ad coupon on the back of a local supermarket receipt. The shop is up the street from me and was controversial because it was close to the high school. It took over a rare bookstore that quit business. The new shop was set up by the son of Congressman George Miller. For the record I've never thought pot should be illegal anyway even though I stopped smoking it 6 months before I started TM back in the 1970s.

So, I am wearing khaki pants, light blue dress shirt, tie and a jacket and a pair of Clarke's loafers. YMMV.

"The real blockbuster political story of the day came in the form of a video obtained by Mother Jones and written about in a detailed article there by Ari Berman and Nick Surgey. The leaked video shows Jessica Anderson, the executive director of Heritage Action for America—the political arm of the right-wing Heritage Foundation think tank—explaining to big-money donors that Heritage Action has worked closely with Republican state legislators to enact voter suppression laws. “In some cases, we actually draft them for them,” she said, “or we have a sentinel on our behalf give them the model legislation so it has that grassroots, from-the-bottom-up type of vibe.” The story is not entirely new. Heritage (as it is known) published a report last February outlining “best practices” for voting, many of which are in the new bills coming out of Republican-dominated state legislatures. And in a March article for the New York Times, Nick Corasaniti and Reid J. Epstein outlined the role of Heritage Action in Georgia’s and Arizona’s voting restrictions, noting that at least 23 of the proposed state bills that dealt with voting had language that looked like that of Heritage. They also wrote that Heritage plans to spend $24 million to change voting laws in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada, Texas, and Wisconsin before the 2022 election, and that the person behind the Heritage voting policies is Hans von Spakovsky, who mainstreamed the idea of voter fraud in the Republican Party, although experts agree it is vanishingly rare. What is new and dramatic about the video is seeing Anderson make her pitch to donors for a coordinated right-wing effort to take the vote away from their opponents. She talks of working with similar groups: “We literally give marching orders for the week ahead,” Anderson said. “All so we’re singing from the same song sheet of the goals for that week and where the state bills are across the country.” Heritage Action is fighting hard against the Democrats’ For the People Act, which would protect the right to vote, end partisan gerrymandering, and limit money in politics. Heritage summarized the bill, which it called the “Corrupt Politicians Act,” in a short sheet for lawmakers. Anderson explained: “We’ve made sure that every single member of Congress knows just how bad the bill is…. Then we’ve made sure there’s an echo chamber of support around these senators driven by your Heritage Action activists and sentinels across the country where we’ve driven hundreds of thousands of calls, emails, place[d] letters to the editor, hosted events, and run television and digital ads.” Democrats cannot pass the For the People Act through the Senate without buy-in from all 50 of their senators, and Surgey noted that in March, Heritage Action and similar groups bussed protesters to West Virginia from other states for a big rally at the capitol to pressure Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin. The “grassroots” protest against “voter fraud” is, in fact, conceived, funded, and organized by one of the most powerful elite political organizations in the country. Manchin has suggested he will not support the For the People Act without Republican support, so yesterday, he suggested a different way to address the recent voter suppression measures. Under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, states and local governments that had a history of racist election laws had to get clearance from federal officials before they put new election rules in place. The Supreme Court gutted that rule in 2013 with the Shelby County v. Holder decision (which is why all these new laws are going into the books). Manchin called for restoring the old system of preclearance, but applying it to all states and territories, not just the nine to which it had previously applied, thus taking away the Supreme Court’s objection that it singled out certain states. Manchin’s workaround wouldn’t deal with gerrymandering or big money, but it would certainly be a start toward leveling the electoral playing field, and historically, support for the Voting Rights Act w

This article nails it and it's in The Atlantic: Progressive communities have been home to some of the fiercest battles over COVID-19 policies, and some liberal policy makers have left scientific evidence behind. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberals-covid-19-science-denial-lockdown/618780/ Let the caterwauling begin. ?

See where the world stands on vaccinations https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/vaccination-rollout-and-access/ Sal

Anxious about post-vaccine travels? You're not alone, according to mental health pros. https://www.yahoo/news/

I keep thinking about you, Ravi, and your family in India. I hope that they are safe and well although the situation over there is so terribly dire. Let us know of any news if you feel like it.

It looks like a pandemic over there in India. YMMV. The conservative party of Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, is in deep trouble and will probably be voted out in the next national election, unless he's forced out by masses before he can even quit. Go figure. From The New York Times, April 26, 2021: "The available solutions are no secret. The same two strategies have worked around the world: restricting the activities that spread the virus, and accelerating the pace of vaccinations. Indian officials have also criticized the Biden administration for not exporting more vaccine supplies to India, given the large U.S. supply. The latest: In another anti-democratic move, India's government ordered Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to take down posts critical of its handling of the pandemic. Modi has a record of stifling dissent, and Freedom House, the democracy watchdog group, recently said India had become only a "partly free" country that was moving "toward authoritarianism." Letter from India: "If this pandemic has taught us anything, it's that the virus knows no borders. The double mutant variant of COVID-19 that's wreaking havoc in India will, sooner or later, spread to other parts of the world."

The guy who cuts my hair turned me on to Heather Cox Richardson, who writes an almost daily online political newsletter summarizing events called Letters from an American. There is a free version and a paying version; I'm signed up for the free version. She is an excellent writer, factual, and succinct. She lives in Maine and also posts photographs and other things of interest occasionally. Today, she posted this: "In honor of this year's Kentucky Derby (won today by Medina Spirit), I'm posting a piece my friend Michael S. Green and I wrote together a number of years ago on Ten Famous American Horses. It has no deep meaning... it's just fun. It remains one of my favorite things I had a hand in writing, and I'm pleased to have an excuse to share it. I'll be back on the usual beat tomorrow. 1) Traveller General Robert E. Lee rode Traveller (spelled with two Ls, in the British style) from February 1862 until the general’s death in 1870. Traveller was a grey American Saddlebred of 16 hands. He had great endurance for long marches, and was generally unflappable in battle, although he once broke both of General Lee’s hands when he shied at enemy movements. Lee brought Traveller with him when he assumed the presidency of Washington and Lee University. Traveller died of tetanus in 1871. He is buried on campus, where the safe ride program still uses his name. 2) Comanche Comanche was attached to General Custer’s detachment of the 7th Cavalry when it engaged the Lakota in 1876 at the Battle of Little Bighorn. The troops in the detachment were all killed in the engagement, but soldiers found Comanche, badly wounded, two days later. They nursed him back to health, and he became the 7th Cavalry’s mascot. The commanding officer decreed that the horse would never again be ridden, and that he would always be paraded, draped in black, in all military ceremonies involving the 7th Cavalry. When Comanche died of colic in 1891, he was given a full military funeral (the only other horse so honored was Black Jack, who served in more than a thousand military funerals in the 1950s and 1960s). Comanche’s taxidermied body is preserved in the Natural History Museum at the University Of Kansas. 3) Beautiful Jim Key Beautiful Jim Key was a performing horse trained by formerly enslaved veterinarian Dr. William Key. Key demonstrated how Beautiful Jim could read, write, do math, tell time, spell, sort mail, and recite the Bible. Beautiful Jim performed from 1897 to 1906 and became a legend. An estimated ten million Americans saw him perform, and others collected his memorabilia – buttons, photos, and postcards – or danced the Beautiful Jim Key two-step. Dr. Key insisted that he had taught Beautiful Jim using only kindness, and Beautiful Jim Key’s popularity was important in preventing cruelty to animals in America, with more than 2 million children signing the Jim Key Band of Mercy, in which they pledged: “I promise always to be kind to animals.” 4) Man o’ War Named for his owner, August Belmont, Jr., who was overseas in WWI, Man o’ War is widely regarded as the top Thoroughbred racehorse of all time. He won 20 of his 21 races and almost a quarter of a million dollars in the early twentieth century. His one loss – to “Upset” – came after a bad start. Man o’ War sired many of America’s famous racehorses, including Hard Tack, which in turn sired Seabiscuit, the small horse that came to symbolize hope during the Great Depression. 5) Trigger Entertainer Roy Rogers chose the palomino Trigger from five rented horses to be his mount in a Western film in the 1930s, changing his name from Golden Cloud to Trigger because of his quick mind and feet. Rogers rode Trigger in his 1950s television series, making the horse a household name. When Trigger died, Rogers had his skin draped over a Styrofoam mold and displayed it in the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in California. He also had a 24-foot statue of Trigger made from steel and fiberglass. One other copy of that mold was also made: it is “Bucky the Bronco,” which rears above the Denver Broncos stadium south sco

For half of what Verizon paid for it. ;-) https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22416854/aol-yahoo-sale-apollo-venetian-hotel-verizon

Another mocker of the crisis in India to go along with poor B2. *** A Chinese Communist Party-linked account mocked India's Covid crisis on social media. It backfired *** By Nectar Gan ( https://www.cnn.com/profiles/nectar-gan ) and James Griffiths ( https://www.cnn.com/profiles/james-griffiths ) , CNN Updated 3:30 AM ET, Mon May 3, 2021 India is not the only Covid-19 hotspot in Asia ---------------------------------------------- Myanmar military uses torture tactics on protesters --------------------------------------------------- Boris Johnson faces damaging allegations as he hits campaign trail ------------------------------------------------------------------ I felt hurt: EU chief slams sexist treatment in Turkey ------------------------------------------------------ Taiwan responds to increasing China threat ------------------------------------------ Kidnappers snatched her from school. Here's what happened next -------------------------------------------------------------- Australia braces for further backlash from China as it scraps Xi's signature project ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fire at Iraqi hospital kills dozens of Covid-19 patients -------------------------------------------------------- CNN speaks to doctor on the front lines in India's Covid-19 crisis ------------------------------------------------------------------ This group of volunteers is on a noble mission amid pandemic ------------------------------------------------------------ Striking oil here could be worth billions of dollars. Not everyone is happy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Myanmar's journalists face 'humanitarian crisis' as crackdown intensifies ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social media footage shows crush in Israel ------------------------------------------ Rare footage shows gun battle at Myanmar-Thailand border -------------------------------------------------------- See Beijing launch key component of planned space station --------------------------------------------------------- Images show Navalny appear in court virtually after hunger strike ----------------------------------------------------------------- India is not the only Covid-19 hotspot in Asia ---------------------------------------------- Myanmar military uses torture tactics on protesters --------------------------------------------------- Boris Johnson faces damaging allegations as he hits campaign trail ------------------------------------------------------------------ I felt hurt: EU chief slams sexist treatment in Turkey ------------------------------------------------------ Taiwan responds to increasing China threat ------------------------------------------ Kidnappers snatched her from school. Here's what happened next -------------------------------------------------------------- Australia braces for further backlash from China as it scraps Xi's signature project ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fire at Iraqi hospital kills dozens of Covid-19 patients -------------------------------------------------------- CNN speaks to doctor on the front lines in India's Covid-19 crisis ------------------------------------------------------------------ This group of volunteers is on a noble mission amid pandemic ------------------------------------------------------------ Striking oil here could be worth billions of dollars. Not everyone is happy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Myanmar's journalists face 'humanitarian crisis' as crackdown intensifies ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social media footage shows crush in Israel ------------------------------------------ Rare footage shows gun battle at Myanmar-Thailand border -------------------------------------------------------- See Beijing launch key component of planned space station --------------------------------------------------------- Images show Navalny appear in court virtually after hunger strike ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hong Kong (CNN) For most of China, last week's launch of the first module of its planned space station ( https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29/world/iss-future-china-space-station-russia-us-intl-scn/index.html ) was simply a moment of pride. But for one social media account linked to the ruling Communist Party, it was a crass opportunity to mock India's Covid-19 tragedy. On the micro-blogging platform Weibo, the account posted a photo of the Chinese Long March-5B carrier rocket blasting off, alongside a picture of cremation pyres burning at night in India under the watch of people in hazmat suits. "China lighting a fire versus India lighting a fire," the caption read, accompanied by a hashtag declaring that India's Covid-19 cases had surged past 400,000 a day. The account that posted the photos is linked to the Central Commission for Political and Legal Affairs, a powerful organ of the ruling Communist Party, overseeing the country's courts and law enforcement bodies. Several other government accounts run by the police and local courts shared the pictures. Though nationalist sentiment against India has been running high in recent months due to border disputes, many Chinese social media users were shocked. "I can't believe this was posted by a government account. Why do you need to use the suffering of others to highlight national pride?" read one top comment underneath the post.

More insights into the toxic combination of psychological aberration and the possession of power. Dr. Bandy X. Lee was interviewed by Prof. Johanna Fernández, author of The Young Lords: A Radical History (UNC Press, 2020), a history of the Puerto Rican counterpart of the Black Panther Party. She is the editor of Writing on the Wall: Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal (City Lights, 2015) and with Abu-Jamal a special issue of the journal Socialism and Democracy, titled The Roots of Mass Incarceration in the US: Locking Up Black Dissidents and Punishing the Poor(Routledge, 2014). She teaches 20th Century U.S. history and the history of social movements at Baruch College (CUNY) and hosts "A New Day" on WBAI. She interviewed Dr. Lee, forensic psychiatrist and author of Profile of a Nation, for her "Race, Class, and Revolution" class at MayDay Space in New York. This is a two-part series. The first part of the interview series can be read here. Where does politics begin and psychiatry end in assessing social problems? As you know, we just experienced hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, the near-loss of our democracy, and traumatization of a nation as a result of a president's mental unfitness, and so we cannot say the two areas are always separate. If the psychological dangers and unfitness were addressed earlier on, as would have been routine for any other job, we may have avoided these predictable consequences. Mental health issues do not stop at the political realm, and a high political office does not make one immune from mental problems. At the same time, just as political matters should not be labeled as psychiatric, psychiatric issues should not be labeled as political. Politicians are supposed to consult with experts in areas that exceed their ability to handle—and not pretend that it is politics as usual—just as mental health experts should not comment on areas outside their expertise. Mislabeling can lead to catastrophes, as we have seen under Donald Trump, when glaring psychological problems were interpreted as political strategy or "3-D chess." We associate Nazism or Stalinism with certain countries, while portraying Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, or Pol Pot as such exceptional "monsters" that they would never be replicated on our soil, when the psychological characteristics they display are quite common—and it was handing them power that was exceptional. If we fail to understand the personality types that relentlessly seek but cannot handle power, which transforms them into grotesque megalomaniacs who run their countries to the ground, we will forever be vulnerable to them. We need to engage those who are best poised to detect these signs early, before they entrench themselves in the political structure, and that would be mental health experts. Didn't Barack Obama deploy more structural violence against immigrants than all previous American presidents? Why not focus on this? Isn't talk about sociopathy a distraction from the real problems? Absolutely, we need to consider the larger context—but the two are interlinked. When present, we need to point out elements of pathology in the culture that push individuals into violence, even when they may not have initially been inclined. George W. Bush might be another example of someone who was not a dangerous personality, but he was used for dangerous purposes. When I was asked to comment on the Iraq War at the World Economic Forum, I focused not on him but on our nation as suffering from a "narcissistic personality disorder" writ large. I called out Donald Trump because he is a dangerous personality, but he was simultaneously also the personification and instrument of a dangerous culture. People have asked me to comment on Joe Biden, but I have not, since he exhibits no concerning signs of relevance to doing his job, although whether he can refrain from the pressures of our violent military-industrial complex remains to be seen. How is it helpful to discuss disorder, whether in an individual or in a society? Disorder by definition leads to destruction, no matte

Did you know that, as we age, we can no longer hear certain high-pitched noises as well as we did during our youth? There are sound frequencies that only young people can hear. 15,000 Hz is difficult for anyone over the age of 40 to hear and 17,400 Hz is a frequency that only teenagers can hear. Most people over the age of 18 cannot hear high tones. YMMV.. How high can you actually hear? Take this hearing test and find out: https://www.classic/frequency-hearing-test/ So, why did I recently purchase a High-definition audio-video disk player? Go figure. Equipment profile: Panasonic 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Network Disc Player with HDR10+ and Dolby Vision Playback, Hi-Res Sound, VOD Streaming w/dual HDMI and remote control - Black (DP-UB820). Review: https://www.whathifi/reviews/ Notes: High-resolution audio (HD audio) is a term for audio files with greater than 44.1 kHz sample rate or higher than 16-bit audio bit depth. It commonly refers to 96 or 192 kHz sample rates. File formats capable of storing high-resolution audio include FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF and DSD (the format used by SACD). Direct Stream Digital (DSD) is a trademark used by Sony and Philips for their system of digitally recreating audible signals for the Super Audio CD (SACD). Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-resolution_audio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Stream_Digital

"Some 18 million public school children have not set foot in a school in the past year. A study released in early December by McKinsey and Co. found that virtual learning hurt all students, but students of color the most: remote school set them back by three to five months in math, for example." The Miseducation of America’s Elites https://www.city-journal/