Whatever happens with this election or anything else, it's pretty clear that a lot of people will be spending a lot of time in some form of quarantine this winter, and many more people will make efforts at playing concerts on the internet.   Here are some helpful tips, in the form of a song.

Today would have been Kevin Zeese's 65th birthday.  Soon after he died last month, his partner and co-conspirator, Margaret Flowers, wrote about the last speech that Kevin gave, shortly before he died.  I made it rhyme.  Rest in peace, dear Kevin Zeese.

Just a love song for the moon, and the very recent discovery of water upon it.

In the midst of what they called the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy administration was prepared to sacrifice humanity.  The only thing that stopped this plan were the actions of one Russian submarine commander.  Against the wishes of his national leadership, and the other two commanders on the sub, he refused to retaliate against the US warship that was attacking his nuclear-armed sub, deciding instead to surrender.

If anything can be gleaned from the overall state of my YouTube comments in combination with the state of your average front yard in the USA today, it's very clear that this country is an extremely divided place, in so many ways.

For those of us who are not glued to Fox News or otherwise stuck with their heads firmly entrenched in the sand, and regardless of what anyone thinks of any of the factions of the Democratic Party or of our corrupt system of bourgeois democracy, here is a statement of the obvious:  the Republican leadership is openly organizing a coup d'etat.  They've been working on it for a long time, and they're stepping up their game in the last weeks before the election.

I'm not sure how useful empathy is, whether expressed musically or otherwise, if it cannot be eaten, if it does not provide a warm, dry bed, if the oxygen provided is only metaphorical.

As things get increasingly bleak here in the USA, with the government paralyzed, the pandemic out of control, and winter approaching, I find myself dreaming of other lands where things function better.

Danish civil society mobilized for several days at the beginning of October, 1943, and successfully transported the vast majority of Denmark's Jewish population across the water to Sweden, where they were given asylum, where they survived the rest of World War 2.

September 27th, 1850 is the date that the Donation Land Claim Act passed by the US Congress went into effect.  This explicitly racist law played a massive role in creating the Oregon of today.