So I listened to the Tim Robbins speech extraordinaire on a MSNBC link I got through Twitter - the speech was mondo to the max, the speech was like the first time me and my friends living in bohemia on the east side of Milwaukee, the first time we listened to Elton John's "Yellow Brick Road," especially "Alice," as the majority gay folk I hung out with thought it was worth a listen due to word of mouth.

I was always too geeky to get any music the first time, but I respected the style of my cohorts and thus listened thoughtfully until I eventually dug the groove.

It was acknowledgement of your own reality by a larger world, the larger community that you had been told would never acknowledge you.

Tim Robbins did that in his speech. It was scripted and he used his acting skills openly to deliver it without flinching. Just. Plain. Mondo. Saying with exquisite sarcasm all the dark observations we outcasts have made on our status quo Krumbling Kulture and were hippie punched over, he kept his stance even when I found myself cringing, "ooh, don't say THAT!" He did say that and he kept his stance.

I think Bernie would agree for the most part about what Tim Robbins said but I think Bernie would have said it with a very different light, a different illumination. He has a way of saying the Truth that isn't dark. Imagine that.

So anyway, I looked on Twitter and people were trying to tear down Robbins' speech with the same kind of arguments we see on the political blogs, and I really wasn't interested in that level of minutia so I started going to the Caucus here to see what was going on, but as I have a really old broken down Toshiba laptop, sometimes it needs a nap (as do I!) and just won't respond to my commands.

Because of my Komputer Karma, the MSNBC tab didn't close immediately and I started hearing Chris Matthews and oy! I don't ever listen to him voluntarily, his voice bugs me. But anyway, my laptop kept the audio on long enough for me to hear Matthews talking about Trump and then went on to Clinton.

I really don't remember most of what he said, but one phrase kind of stuck out a bit - Matthews was asking what was Hillary for? He said her being a woman was "icing on the cake," but "what was the cake?"

That's a question I've asked since the beginning of the primaries.

So that was my evening Internet Dharma.

Go Bernie! Fight, Fellows, Fight and We Will Win this Game!

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