Marianne Faithfull: once, she was of the Immortals.
She had to be—all that time she spent with Keith Richards.
Like Richards, Faithfull had the constitution of a mule. Nothing could fell her. Sure, sometimes there were the comas. But she always pulled out. So, too, when she would break her jaw, or her heart would stop, or her lover would leap out a 14th-story window, and become a stain. She always came through.
At least by body count, Henry Kissinger is the United States' biggest living War Criminal, fully comparable to Hitler and Stalin.
This evening's music features jump blues and r&b singer Wynonie Harris. Enjoy!
Wynonie Harris - Good Rockin' Tonight
Kyle Knight and Neela Goshal have written an interesting essay on the rights...or lack of same...of transgender people around the world.
The process is as universal as it gets: when a baby is born, a doctor, parent, or birth attendant announces the arrival of a “girl” or “boy.” That split-second assignment dictates multiple aspects of our lives. It is also something that most of us never question.
But some people’s gender evolves differently, and might not fit rigid traditional notions of female or male.
That should have no bearing on whether someone can enjoy fundamental rights. But for transgender people it does—to a humiliating, violent, and sometimes lethal degree.
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Tuesday February 15, 1916
Butte, Montana - Miners Trapped by Fire, Rescue Attempts Ongoing
Newspapers across the nation this morning are reporting on the fire which erupted last night in the Pennsylvania Mine at Butte, Montana. We offer a few examples:
From Salina, Kansas:
PENNED IN BY FIRE
-----Flames In Airshaft of Anaconda Mine
Imprisoned Miners At Butte.
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TEN VICTIMS KNOWN DEAD
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Other Workmen Have Not Been Heard From
Since the Disaster.
-----Butte, Mont., Feb. 15.-At least ten miners lost their lives in a fire which started last night in the air shaft on the 12,000 [1200] foot level of a mine of the Anaconda copper Mining Company and which still was burning early today....
| It's Presidents' Day Woo Hoo! Celebrate one, or two, or 5, or something |
Today's number is Fifteen
From Working in These Times of Feb 9, 2016-
“On Bill and Hillary Clinton’s First Date in 1971, They Crossed a Picket Line”
by Zach Schwartz-Weinstein
According to the above article, Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton, young law students at Yale, were members of the student’s Committee for Local 35 and their signatures were on a statement of support for the union a week before the strike.
If you thought the political and humanitarian situation in Syria couldn't be any worse, you are about to be proven horribly wrong.
Unless several nation pull back from the brink right now, the Syrian Civil War is about to turn into a region-wide war that could plunge much of the Muslim world into open warfare, and could possibly even lead to a military confrontation between Russia and NATO.
Yes, it really is that dangerous.
I was provoked into writing this piece by a diary which discussed Supreme Court review of some sort of proposed regulation of carbon emissions from coal plants.
Henry Tadebois is a 24-year-old trans man from Melbourne. He works as a train conductor.
Henty has created this wonderfully humorous video to explain his circumstances to his family and friends:
