I woke up this morning and my good woman wasn’t gone, she was asleep beside me, I didn’t feel an aching in my head, no blues around my bed. I made coffee, it tasted fine, not like turpentine. I could put gin in the coffee and make it taste like turpentine but why would I? And that’s how I feel about the Six Supremes who’re trying to take us back to the 19th century. No need to grieve over it, November is coming, and the simple solution is to throw the bums out. Elect a Congress with a two-thirds majority in favor of enlarging the Court to fifteen, which will reverse the reversals. Ninety million eligible voters sat out the 2016 election and that’s how we wound up where we are with this ambitious minority in power.
The Democrats need to take a look at politics and I mean practical street politics which is about winning elections at the state and local level. I remember many Democratic women in 2016 who said that they could see no difference between Ms. Clinton and Donald. Say what?
If you don't like what the politicians in Congress, state legislatures, and the courts are doing, then elect some different people. If you can't do that, then forget about it.
In our recent primary election in Alabama, 23% of registered voters went to the polls statewide. Consider that there are many people who could vote but they are not registered. So as you say a very small percentage of the population decides these issues.
Good morning, GK! “Exercise your gifts. Create beautiful things.” Shine light into darkness, temper grace with reason and drive back ignorance and unkindness; no words could be “truer”.
There are no words I needed to hear first thing this Monday morning more than yours.
Thank you for living out loud. Thank you for making this project of living feel like … well, like what?i. I don’t know a good word for this feeling I have other than joy! Joy in the morning! Garrison’s alive and kicking and rhyming and making me smile a thankful smile.
What has happened to the mellowed out old liberal Sage of NMP? Venture to say he’d be better spoken and his revival better received to hearken back and include some of the old Minnesota and Lutheran background to balance his commentary
Perfect - thank you --- exactly my thoughts. All this craziness affects my poetry and art - sometimes not so beautiful - but I'm trying to compass toward the positive.
Thank you for this. I will try to remember to breathe the air and enjoy the smiles of my granddaughter while asking the Good Guy above to watch over us all.
It's sick if revealing that you're exulting in terrorism, proving that we whom you would consider "right wingers" ( I consider myself a Chestertonian Distributist ) are sound in our assertions that violence is far more likely to come from the Left than from the Right.
You point to a slob of an ex - President, and his magical thinking that several hundred loutish dorks who probably couldn't plan a summer vacation would be capable of thwarting the Electoral College, while the rest of us point to the smash, burn, loot and topple summer of two years ago, and now to this classic of yours, as evidence of whom to expect violence from.
I suppose the worst part is your delight in the intimidation which you see coming to the families of the justices, and which you don't abhor! You ought to be ashamed of yourself. The invocation of Mozart and beauty on top of your delight in violence is vomitorious. If you actually had wit, the parallel with Naziism would not have evaded your awareness.
The Left has gone mad, with hatred and with murder. But who should be surprised that murder would lurk in the hearts of those who think it enobles a nation to permit the freewill murder of the unborn?
Evade it as you may, Garrison, that is what abortion is, and everyone knows it. The woman isn't having liposuction, she is having a genetically unique human being, made in the Imago Dei, whom she has been granted the privilege of nurturing in herself, murdered.
Yours is the view of a person who has forgotten God. Sing your songs, talk about the Plymouth Brethren, be America's gentle humorist. It's all crap. You really are a hater.
More proof of the unfairness of life is that you're much better known than the truly amusing and lovely late Canadian monologist, Stuart McLean, whose Vinyl Cafe recordings are available in their near if not total marvelous entirety on YouTube.
Well, okay.; you’re right. Your admonition to keep on the sunny side of life reminds me to stop thinking that by worrying I can change who is elected president. I shall have to truly live more in my heart if a certain orange man is put in office—again.
I'm a conservative. At the same time, I make it a habitually daily practice to mind my own business. Equally at the same time, I subscribe to the live and let live mentality. You do you and I'll do me. With that I also practice not watching the evening news, watching chit-chat TV programs and late night TV where news and entertainment has taken a very distant back seat to political opinion. "You need to be informed" I am told. Perhaps, but sadly the boob tube has degenerated into a preach-box and I don't like being preached to.
R-V-W and abortion, I have always felt was a personal issue raised, unceremoniously, to a public level. Going back to minding ones own business, it is not for me, or anyone for that matter, to decide what a woman should and shouldn't, can and can't do with her body. As a man, I see a pregnancy as a dangerous thing for a woman. It can kill her if things don't go well and even if things can go well it can still kill her. If a woman is raped, a victim of incest or finds a medical issue that could cause her death, then the abortion should be permitted. Once the realization of pregnancy is confirmed that is when it should be done. Immediately if it is decided so. I recall there was a push by the progressives to allow abortion nearly up to the point of birth. Something to that effect. I feel had that not been pushed by the progressives, we would not be talking about RVW right now.
Sometimes, and this doesn't require a lot of deep thought, ya just gotta know when to keep your big mouth shut. Don't poke the hornets nest, don't hit a sleeping bear with a stick.... just shut up. But noooooo....... "We want the right to terminate the fetus a week after it is born!!!!".... Well, you opened your big mouth and.... ta da.
Yes, November is coming and I expect there will be riots, fires and questionable results to accompany a sweeping change in what suits are sitting in what chairs. And even then, it is likely we will have little say in what happens.
Thank you for your stunning commentary, and the inclusion of the Figaro link. It both soothed my spirit and brought me back to "reality" after last evening's painful Tampa Bay Lightning loss to the Colorado Avalanche in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals. ON ALL ACCOUNTS... Stop. Regroup. Press on. 🎶🏒💗
Great decisions by SCOTUS last week
God is at work in the USA
Good comments, Garrison.
The Democrats need to take a look at politics and I mean practical street politics which is about winning elections at the state and local level. I remember many Democratic women in 2016 who said that they could see no difference between Ms. Clinton and Donald. Say what?
If you don't like what the politicians in Congress, state legislatures, and the courts are doing, then elect some different people. If you can't do that, then forget about it.
In our recent primary election in Alabama, 23% of registered voters went to the polls statewide. Consider that there are many people who could vote but they are not registered. So as you say a very small percentage of the population decides these issues.
Best wishes to one and all.
"Depressed" isn't quite the word, Garrison. "Dumfounded", "enraged", "bewildered"...I can't quite get the right one.
When words fail, however, humor and and a little history always helps. Thanks for providing that respite for me.
Good morning, GK! “Exercise your gifts. Create beautiful things.” Shine light into darkness, temper grace with reason and drive back ignorance and unkindness; no words could be “truer”.
Bravo
There are no words I needed to hear first thing this Monday morning more than yours.
Thank you for living out loud. Thank you for making this project of living feel like … well, like what?i. I don’t know a good word for this feeling I have other than joy! Joy in the morning! Garrison’s alive and kicking and rhyming and making me smile a thankful smile.
Thank you, dear, treasured man.
Thank you.
What has happened to the mellowed out old liberal Sage of NMP? Venture to say he’d be better spoken and his revival better received to hearken back and include some of the old Minnesota and Lutheran background to balance his commentary
Eminently worthy of sharing . . . so I did.
Garrison: your essay is a masterpiece. Thank you for your thoughts.
Perfect - thank you --- exactly my thoughts. All this craziness affects my poetry and art - sometimes not so beautiful - but I'm trying to compass toward the positive.
Thank you for this. I will try to remember to breathe the air and enjoy the smiles of my granddaughter while asking the Good Guy above to watch over us all.
It's sick if revealing that you're exulting in terrorism, proving that we whom you would consider "right wingers" ( I consider myself a Chestertonian Distributist ) are sound in our assertions that violence is far more likely to come from the Left than from the Right.
You point to a slob of an ex - President, and his magical thinking that several hundred loutish dorks who probably couldn't plan a summer vacation would be capable of thwarting the Electoral College, while the rest of us point to the smash, burn, loot and topple summer of two years ago, and now to this classic of yours, as evidence of whom to expect violence from.
I suppose the worst part is your delight in the intimidation which you see coming to the families of the justices, and which you don't abhor! You ought to be ashamed of yourself. The invocation of Mozart and beauty on top of your delight in violence is vomitorious. If you actually had wit, the parallel with Naziism would not have evaded your awareness.
The Left has gone mad, with hatred and with murder. But who should be surprised that murder would lurk in the hearts of those who think it enobles a nation to permit the freewill murder of the unborn?
Evade it as you may, Garrison, that is what abortion is, and everyone knows it. The woman isn't having liposuction, she is having a genetically unique human being, made in the Imago Dei, whom she has been granted the privilege of nurturing in herself, murdered.
Yours is the view of a person who has forgotten God. Sing your songs, talk about the Plymouth Brethren, be America's gentle humorist. It's all crap. You really are a hater.
More proof of the unfairness of life is that you're much better known than the truly amusing and lovely late Canadian monologist, Stuart McLean, whose Vinyl Cafe recordings are available in their near if not total marvelous entirety on YouTube.
Well, okay.; you’re right. Your admonition to keep on the sunny side of life reminds me to stop thinking that by worrying I can change who is elected president. I shall have to truly live more in my heart if a certain orange man is put in office—again.
I'm a conservative. At the same time, I make it a habitually daily practice to mind my own business. Equally at the same time, I subscribe to the live and let live mentality. You do you and I'll do me. With that I also practice not watching the evening news, watching chit-chat TV programs and late night TV where news and entertainment has taken a very distant back seat to political opinion. "You need to be informed" I am told. Perhaps, but sadly the boob tube has degenerated into a preach-box and I don't like being preached to.
R-V-W and abortion, I have always felt was a personal issue raised, unceremoniously, to a public level. Going back to minding ones own business, it is not for me, or anyone for that matter, to decide what a woman should and shouldn't, can and can't do with her body. As a man, I see a pregnancy as a dangerous thing for a woman. It can kill her if things don't go well and even if things can go well it can still kill her. If a woman is raped, a victim of incest or finds a medical issue that could cause her death, then the abortion should be permitted. Once the realization of pregnancy is confirmed that is when it should be done. Immediately if it is decided so. I recall there was a push by the progressives to allow abortion nearly up to the point of birth. Something to that effect. I feel had that not been pushed by the progressives, we would not be talking about RVW right now.
Sometimes, and this doesn't require a lot of deep thought, ya just gotta know when to keep your big mouth shut. Don't poke the hornets nest, don't hit a sleeping bear with a stick.... just shut up. But noooooo....... "We want the right to terminate the fetus a week after it is born!!!!".... Well, you opened your big mouth and.... ta da.
Yes, November is coming and I expect there will be riots, fires and questionable results to accompany a sweeping change in what suits are sitting in what chairs. And even then, it is likely we will have little say in what happens.
Turn off your TV.
Thank you for your stunning commentary, and the inclusion of the Figaro link. It both soothed my spirit and brought me back to "reality" after last evening's painful Tampa Bay Lightning loss to the Colorado Avalanche in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals. ON ALL ACCOUNTS... Stop. Regroup. Press on. 🎶🏒💗