Everyone else seems to be out for the night, so here’s an open thread. A two pack of Blondie.
First up covering The Nerves Hanging on the Telephone:
And then something from the late 90s:
Open Thread!
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Everyone else seems to be out for the night, so here’s an open thread. A two pack of Blondie.
First up covering The Nerves Hanging on the Telephone:
And then something from the late 90s:
Open Thread!
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Oy vey!
Chris Cantwell, the Crying NAZI, had his first court appearance today. It was a doozy!
Cantwell’s attorney is Elmer Woodard, who appeared in court wearing an early-1800s-style red waistcoat with gold buttons, bowtie, white muttonchop whiskers, black velcro shoes, and a a 1910s-style straw boater hat. Cantwell said Woodard was his fourth choice for legal counsel after three other lawyers declined to take his case. (Woodard previously attempted to defend a client accused of sexual assault by a 15-year-old girl by claiming that the man’s sleepwalking caused him to rape her.)
This is the good barrister as he appeared in court today:
Thank you, internet. This appears to be a photo of Crying Nazi's attorney (who dressed similarly in court) https://t.co/caPlQieSKd pic.twitter.com/umarMarG9w
— David Nir (@DavidNir) September 1, 2017
How he was dressed that day pic.twitter.com/20UedSw7kE
— connor (@ConnorPilman) September 1, 2017
So what did Woodard put forward as a defense of Cantwell?
Christopher Cantwell’s lawyer says his client’s comments disparaging blacks and Jews is just a comedic act of a “shock jock,” comparing him to the Jewish comedian Jackie Mason.
The claim was made during a four-hour bail hearing for Cantwell on Thursday night. Cantwell faces three felony charges stemming from an incident at the University of Virginia on Aug. 11, in which he pepper-sprayed at least two people during a torchlight procession of hundreds of white supremacists who chanted Nazi slogans. The conflict was captured on camera and broadcast in a now-famous Vice News documentary.
Woodard said it was all a “shock jock” act.
But when Tracci asked Cantwell to describe what he does for a living, he answered: “I do a racist podcast.”
When Tracci quoted Cantwell’s statement praising the murder of Heyer, Woodard objected to the use of the word “murder.”
Much more at the link.
You’ll be happy to know that Cantwell has been denied bail. His next court appearance is scheduled for 9 November. There is no word if Mr. Woodard is back in custodial care, resting comfortably, and enjoying a pudding cup.
I have been researching, first scholarly and then applied, extremists, insurgents, terrorists, and revolutionaries – domestic and foreign, ideological, religious, ethno-national – since I was 24 years old. I started presenting my research at the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in 1995. My first panel presentation was comparing Israeli and Palestinian religious extremists with domestic American ones. The individuals and groups, domestic and foreign, I was studying back then would have eaten Cantwell for lunch.
We can be thankful that they don’t make fascists like they used to.
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I am the nigh— awww yisss scritches pic.twitter.com/5ydLgRVk0A
— Dea Poirier ? (@deapoirierbooks) August 30, 2017
Open Thread!
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Commenter Kathleen has begun to arrange a Ballon Juice meet up in Mason, Ohio and asked if I’d put an announcement on the front page. So here are the details:
Date: Saturday, September 9
Time: 4:00 PM
Place: Wood Fire Grill in Mason, Ohio (Wood Fire is about 33 mile/40 minute drive from Dayton Convention Center).
https://mason.firebirdsrestaurants.com/Ms. Alt Fax, Esq and Ukulele Virtuoso Glaukopis from Dayton have already RSVP’d.Attendees should please RSVP in the comments* by Friday, September 8 so I can make reservations. Ms. Fax will be bringing the balloons.I look forward to meeting The Jackal Party!
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Looks like everyone could use a diversion from the serious posts, so here’s something to take your minds of all the meshugas.
Also, anyone in the Houston area that needs to get animals to shelter (h/t: The Jester):
#Houston – 281-459-1400 – 75 acres of high and dry for livestock, kennels. Trucks and trailers to help transport. pic.twitter.com/ZiHhPmFGIO
— JΞSŦΞR ✪ ΔCŦUΔL³³º¹ (@th3j35t3r) August 29, 2017
— SCIENCE Pony (@co_pony) August 29, 2017
Open thread!
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Today is the 54th anniversary of the March on Washington and Dr. King’s I Have a Dream speech.
On the 54th anniversary of my father's 'I Have a Dream' speech, I remain hopeful. I still have a dream worth working for humanity. #MLK pic.twitter.com/Ea2P3Gi8Ke
— Be A King (@BerniceKing) August 28, 2017
On this 54th anniversary the Anne Frank Center brings the heat:
54 years ago, the March on Washington. Two weeks ago, @POTUS aimed a wrecking ball at Dr. King's dream we share. The dream will never die. pic.twitter.com/ioJ9uO0X0U
— Anne Frank Center (@AnneFrankCenter) August 28, 2017
Here’s the video of the speech:
ETA at 11:05 PM
Lest we forget, today is the 62nd anniversary of Emmet Till’s murder. The date for the March on Washington was specifically chosen to coincide with the anniversary of Till’s murder.
On this date in 1955, Emmett Till was abducted by two white men in Mississippi and brutally murdered. 62 years ago. pic.twitter.com/waj3wQu1gY
— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) August 28, 2017
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Last week Warner Brothers/DC Comics released their most recent DC Animated Universe film. This post is really not about the film. It is set in the Batman: The Animated Series continuity from the 1990s. So classic Bruce Timm art. The story is whacked. In the middle there are two musical numbers (story, whacked…). The first is very good, the second not so much*. As a musical interlude I give you the first one, Two Face hench twins, Max and Min, voiced by Rob Paulsen (and Rob Paulsen) covering Don’t Pull Your Love. The characters were originally voice by Mickey Dolenz during the series run. Feel free to post quirky covers in the comments. And see how many Bat villain hench people you can identify if that’s your thing. Otherwise musical open thread!
* The second cover is Melissa Rauch as Harley Quinn doing a bad cover, and losing the bad accent she’s attempting for the character half way through, of Hanging on the Telephone.
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