(The Daily Show) Jon Stewart comes in to mock the Freedom 250 Concert, celebrating 250 years of lip service to democracy and maybe 250 more...as the nation advances toward the FIFA World Cup with the help of birth right citizenship (and all the players the government invited back to play on the team)
This 'l save our kids from capitalist exploitation
The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was a bipartisan U.S. government committee formed in 1985 [1] with the stated goal of "increasing parental control over children's access to music deemed to have violent, drug-related, or sexual themes."
The committee's work led to the widespread adoption of the Parental Advisory sticker. The PMRC was known for its prejudicial targeting of heavy metal music, which drew opposition and criticism [2].
On political and religious grounds, the committee was supported by American Protestant televangelists, Reaganites, and the larger Christian evangelical movement, who accused hard rock and heavy metal music of harboring Satanic and occult related themes.
The committee was founded by four women known as the "Washington Wives"—a reference to their husbands' connections with the government power elite in the Washington, D.C. area.
Those female founders of the PMRC are Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore... More
Cartoon characters may age right in front of our eyes and eventually die, like The Simpson, Family Guy, and South Park, but we never will. That kind of mortality is only in animation and just for laughs. Can you imagine if radical impermanence applied to our lives? Why, our youth, beauty, and joys might evaporate right in front of our eyes, like good ol' Beavis and Butthead. Of course, the ancient sages of India warned of just such a thing in this story of the past by the Buddha:
Odd that the supremely enlightened Buddha mentions the teachings of another teacher? No, Araka is the Bodhisatta (in a past life, i.e., the Buddha before enlightenment). He is recalling what a good teacher taught before "supreme" (samma-sam) awakening.
"Once long ago, meditators, there was a teacher named Araka, a leader of a school who was free of lust for sensual pleasures. He had hundreds of students and he taught them dhamma [his Doctrine] in this way:
"'Next to nothing, students (Brahmins), is this human life — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and distress. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a purified life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.
"'Just as a dewdrop on a blade of grass soon vanishes with the rising of the sun, in the same way, students, human life is like that dewdrop — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.
"'Just as when the weather-devas send rain in large droplets that hit and form a water bubble that soon vanishes, in the same way, students, human life is like that water bubble — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is born there is no freedom from death.
"'Just as a line drawn on water with a stick soon vanishes, in the same way, students, human life is like that line — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.
Subject to aging, I should seek the ageless.
"'Just as a river flows down from the mountains, goes far in a swift current, and carries everything with it, so that there is not a second, not a moment, not an instant when it stands still, but instead it flows, and moves and rushes. In the same way, students, human life is like that river — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.
"'Just as a strong person might form spit on the tip of the tongue then spit it out with little effort, in the same way, students, human life is like that spit — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.
Huh huh huh, you look old. Here's a cane.
"'Just as a shred of flesh tossed onto an iron pan that has been heated all day soon vanishes, in the same way, students, human life is like that shred of flesh — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.
"'Just as a doomed cow being led to a slaughterhouse stumbles with every step as it moves closer to slaughter and closer to death, in the same way, students, human life is like that doomed cow — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.'
Old Cornholio (new Beavis & Butt-Head)
"Now at that time, meditators, the average human life span was 60,000 years, with females marriageable at 500. And at that time there were [only] six afflictions: [touch of] cold, heat, hunger, thirst, [and the need for] defecation and urination. Yet even though humans were so long-lived, long-lasting, with so few afflictions, the Sage Araka taught dhamma to his disciples in this way:
"'Next to nothing, students, is human life — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.'
"At present, meditators, one speaking rightly might say, 'Next to nothing is human life — limited, a trifling, a mass of disappointment and despair. One should touch this [truth] like a sage, do what is skillful, and lead a pure life. For one who is reborn there is no freedom from death.'
How many moons would we have seen? 36,500?
At present, meditators, one who lives a long time is 100 years old or a little more. Living 100 years, one lives for 300 seasons: 100 seasons of cold, 100 seasons of heat, 100 seasons of rain.
Living for 300 seasons, one lives for 1,200 months: 400 months of cold, 400 months of heat, 400 months of rain.
Living for 1,200 months, one lives for 2,400 fortnights: 800 fortnights of cold, 800 fortnights of heat, 800 fortnights of rain.
Living for 2,400 fortnights, one lives for 36,000 days: 12,000 days of cold, 12,000 days of heat, 12,000 days of rain.
Living for 36,000 days, one eats 72,000 meals: 24,000 meals in the cold, 24,000 meals in the heat, 24,000 meals in the rain — counting the taking of mother's milk and obstacles to eating.
Obstacles to eating? There are these: when one does not eat due to anger, when one does not eat due to distress, when one does not eat due to illness, when one does not eat due to an observance [Uposatha] day, when one does not eat due to poverty.
Turn, turn, turn, how the season turn.
"Meditators, reckoning the life of a human being who lives for 100 years, there is the lifespan, the seasons, the years, the months, the fortnights, the nights, the days, the meals, the obstacles to eating.
"Whatever a teacher would do in seeking the welfare of disciples, out of sympathy for them, have I done for you.
"Over there, there are the roots of trees; over there, empty dwellings. Practice meditative absorptions (the jhanas), meditators. Be not heedless, such that you might fall into regret later. This is our message."
Mike Judge, Beavis & Butt-Head (MTV via Paramount+); Dhr. Seven (ed.), Arakenanusasani Sutta (AN 7.70, PTS: A iv 136) based on Ven. Thanissaro (trans), Wisdom Quarterly
Trump gave a good speech, probably the best of his life. Nobel Peace Prize? Why not? War criminal Obama got a preemptive one then lined up war after war for his overseers. Is he a moronic idiot? Maybe. But that seems to work in his favor. He can keep doing his NLP tricks and no one seems to notice or mind, thinking he's just being dumb. All of his arguments are tautologies, not arguments at all, slogans with self-closing loops. Hitler did that.
Reduce anxiety by not worrying. Here's how. - Jimmy Dore keeps it brief: Liar Trump truths it
Trump's audience, which doesn't have the bandwidth to pay that much attention, loves it. It's simple. It's to the point then repeats the point. It doesn't get bogged down with facts or logical thought processes. It's about assumptions and gut feelings, implicit biases and racist/sexist tendencies. Republicans have been said to prefer this over the mealy-mouthed mishmash of Democrats. Only Billy Clinton and B.S. Obama could speak well. And not since Ronnie Reagan has anyone connected with business interests, right wingers, movers and shakers, and the military. (This is not Trump's brainchild; he had a script written for him called Project 2025).
I got money and power. What's next, Mars?
By aligning with multi-billionaire lonE ksuM (Lone Kissum-up?) and his gang of youths with computer skills and prying eyes looking at everyone's private data, he gets to take credit for change, innovation, and disruption of the Swamp. He's been lying about draining it for a long time. Now he's doing something, something insiders have been wanting to do for a long time. Trump is the face of it but not the brains, just like Reagan. And what does the nominal opposition (Left in name only) have? Old man Bernie Sanders who can't afford denture paste. *Exhale* It's pathetic. The party of Pelosi and the Squad's AOC, Waters and Kucinich... Where is Kucinich? Get an elderly caveman with a cane to heckle him at the onset of two hours of coherence, that only seems to have helped Trump. Democrats looking down at their phones in boredom through the address, that was funny. Boo for the Bad Man. Yay for the sign holders? Jimmy Dore, what is your analysis?
Mike Judge (Letterman); Sarah Silverman as Hitler (Conan O'Brien Show); Common Sense News (Beavis & Butthead); Jimmy Dore (TJDS); Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly, March 5, 2025
Sept. 18-21, 2025, in Louisville, Kentucky, home of the Slugger
Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Avenged Sevenfold, Cypress Hill, Lorna Shore, Rob Zombie, Deftones, Marilyn Manson, Trivium, Bring Me the Horizon, Lamb of God, Stone Temple Pilots, Down, Testament, Bruce (Iron Maiden) Dickinson, Bad Omens, A Perfect Circle, Evanescence, Spirit Box, I Prevail, Acid Bath, Exodus, Kitty, White Chapel, Suicide Boys, Three Days Grace. All Time Low, Motionless in White, Cavalier, Mudvayne, Knocked Loose, Hate Breed, Breaking Benjamin, Testament, and 150 more bands
What year is it? Slayer is back together, Pantera is out on tour, Ozzy is an invalid but not dead and still making albums. It's almost as if a second wind for heavy music, a rebirth of hardcore extreme metal and plenty of bands making mainstream inroads.
5 Reasons Trump Will Fail (and it’s already happening)
(Brendan Miller) Feb. 7, 2025: Disruptor Trump is f'ing S up like radicals and liberals and revolutionaries always dreamed of doing to Washington, DC. But he's the wrong individual for the job. He and Pres. Musk are likely to take things in a worse direction rather than actually routing out any corruption, government waste, and political bias. (First, he's an unindicted co-conspirator in a treasonous insurrection, e.g., Jan. 6th, and now he's there to finish the job from the inside out -- pretty impressive for a total outsider with no common sense, no brains in evidence, and nothing but contempt, rabblerousing, and revenge on his mind. He always said his backers would get sick of winning, and now it actually seems to be coming true with winners: Tulsi Gabbard, JFK Jr., a blackout drunk in Hegseth, Tom "Project 2025" Homan,
Get emails when Brendan Miller publishes: brendanmiller.substack.com Talking about politics on BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/brenkjm.bsky... and Twitter: brenkjm. Articles on making explainers https://brendanmiller.co.uk/learn-fil... How Dune Explains Political Power • How Dune explains political power
Beaver and @ss-Hat Beavis and Butt-Head, Common Sense News; Brendan Miller, Feb. 7, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Shauna Schwartz, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
(Saturday Night Live) This ain't no soccer, it's all-American gridiron! Sportscaster Al Michaels (Darrell Hammond) is unsettled by the commentary coming from his new co-hosts, including:
Dan Fouts (Will Ferrell),
Dennis Miller (Jimmy Fallon), and
Eric Dickerson (Tracy Morgan)
on the NFL's Monday Night Football (#SNL, Season 26, 2000).
The animal skin ball seems to come from the Anglo invasion of formerly Buddhist Afghanistan, a tough country with a sport like polo using a dead leather animal corpse.
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WAR FOOTBALL explained
American football is more about war preparation than sport or spectacle
(National WWI Museum and Memorial) Streamed live on March 30, 2023: Trading their cleats for boots and game balls for bayonets, many athletes -- amateur, collegiate, and professional -- became players in an entirely new game during the first World War.
To raise the morale of killer servicemen, along with millions of dollars in funding for the U.S. military's war effort, each branch of the U.S. military created competitive football teams.
The camaraderie fostered between military players, along with spectator interest in these types of all-star teams, lingered long after the Armistice, leading to the founding of the National Football League in 1920.
Anticipating April’s NFL Draft [simulating an old timey slave market] on the grounds of the National WWI Museum and Memorial, author Chris Serb delivers a timely lecture on the history of America’s favorite pastime, from the [war] front to the [sports] field.
For more info about the National WWI Museum and Memorial, visit: theworldwar.org
For that is what the “modern” [WAR] game really was, a rebirth — a return to the artful, open-field ways of running, kicking, and [homo-erotic] ball handling which had characterized American football...when it was evolving out of British soccer and Rugby.
And it is a curious but historical fact that the man most responsible for football’s “red-meat” era...was a most refined and gentlemanly sportsman who admired and exemplified speed and skill far more than brawn and violence: Walter Camp, Yale 1880 (American Heritage).
Blame it on "Barbie" (actor Margot Robbie) - Why's your metal music so depressing, Bro?
Heavy metal or mental illness?
You call yourself a meditator with that racket?
(Wyatt's Metal) It's 2025, and there is one kind of music that is not going away. Rather than fading, it spreads. Why? The fanbase. Misfits like metal? Mental patients are moved? Animals like the beat and melody of music? Let's take a deep dive into the effects heavy metal (with all its genres like death metal, symphonic metal, extreme metal, speed metal, black metal, etc.) music can have on mental health.
The Take, 6/21/22; Kelly Ani, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
What Daria says about the 1990s (and today)
(The Take) Mike Judge's "Daria Morgendorffer" made it cool to be a wry and cynical loner. This teen girl who didn’t care about popularity or trends was the picture-perfect example of ‘90s alienation. She was a surprising character for a channel that often sold brash, extroverted, or overtly sexualized versions of womanhood during that same period.
What if Daria were around today, might she be just like Drugstore June?
00:00 Daria IS the 90s
01:57 How Daria views the world
08:24 MUBI
09:03 Why Daria perfectly captures the 90s
16:20 Daria's influences both past and present
18:25 Why Daria is still beloved today
Years later, Daria still resonates with anyone who’s ever questioned whether the problem is you or the system you’re living in – and it can help us understand cultural changes that were happening back in the 1990s.
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