Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Be careful what you wish for, in reply to David Hood,
It is a bit more complicated than that- at the moment Trump doesn’t have a plan, and what plan happens is done by congress with Presidential signify.
To be fair, he did promise to immediately repeal it. Which would be bizarrely stupid, but there you go.
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And maybe even more this one. Leonard certainly had timing.
Give me back my broken heart
My mirrored room, my secret life
It's lonely here
There's no one left to tortureGive me absolute control
Over every living soul
And lie beside me, baby
That's an orderGive me crack, anal sex
Take the only tree that's left
Stuff it up the hole
In your cultureGive me back the Berlin Wall
Give me Stalin and St. Paul
I've seen the future, brother
It is murderThings are going to slide
Slide in all directions
Won't be nothing
Nothing you can measure anymore
The blizzard
The blizzard of the world
Has crossed the threshold
And it's overturned the order of the soul -
Speaker: A Singer Must Die - Leonard…, in reply to David Hood,
After his death, I was thinking “First we take Manhattan” was very much in the spirit of the U.S. election. I see Billboard Magazine has felt similar- suggesting “First we take Manhattan” and “Everybody Knows” as post-election songs.
I thought of this one ...
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Speaker: A Singer Must Die - Leonard…, in reply to Gareth,
Thanks Grant – a nice tribute. My “first Cohen” was a little earlier than yours, as you might expect
Yes, mine too. It was either Songs From a Room or the Songs of Leonard Cohen compilation. We'd make the usual "slash your wrists" jokes, but really, there's such a vigorous sense of humour in it all.
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Hard News: From Zero: New Zealand and drugs, in reply to nzlemming,
I’d always got the “cokey” reference, but had thought “kick the gong” was a euphemism for raising hell.
Oi!
You and Ian! No spoilers for Episode 3!
;-)
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Hard News: Be careful what you wish for, in reply to Rich Lock,
I read Cracked semi-regularly. As an aside, I find it really flipping bizarre that some of the best stories and analysis I’ve read in the last couple of years are coming from a self-proclaimed ‘dick jokes’ comedy website.
Indeed. This isn't the first time.
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How Half of America Lost Its F**cking Mind
By the executive editor of Cracked, who grew up in what is now Trump country.
It paints a picture that dovetails perfectly with what the Gallup survey found – and earns my sympathy to a far greater degree than any of the sodding racist old-left bullshit I've been batting away on Facebook today. These people are actually suffering social problems and cultural anxiety, it's just a shame they went for Trump to fix it.
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Hard News: Be careful what you wish for, in reply to Sacha,
Exit poll data visualised by NY Times shows which groups voted for Trump.
That's fascinating – especially the minorities graphic. Demonstrates that Hispanics have not historically gone hugely Democratic. That's a more recent trend. Again, I'm left thinking was a remarkable candidate Obama has been. He didn't quite create a new normal, but the Dems have the Latino vote in a way they really did not in 2004.
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Hard News: Be careful what you wish for, in reply to Greg Akehurst,
Are they as surprised as we are?
I've seen some reports suggesting they are.
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I've added this graph to the main main post because it's so interesting. It makes what happened look much more like a return to the mean as Obama leaves the stage than a Trump surge.
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