Public Enemy

I only spoke with him once, but I don't like Gavin Newsom at all. He seemed very smart but utterly devoid of authenticity or even sincerity. He was trying to persuade a roomful of bloggers to back him for governor instead of Jerry Brown. I may have been the only one in the room that was revolted by his smarmy dissimulation. I haven't been impressed since.I heard him on the radio this week.

The fight for the conservative lane is in full swing, and yesterday, Bloomberg's campaign manager dismissed Biden's strategy for beating out Bloomberg, Klobuchar and Mayo Pete.

See America's Sweetheart, Part I hereOver the weekend, the Financial Times published a short essay by Edward Luce, The Clinton-Obama Era Ends As U.S. Democrats Seek A Radical New Voice. He wrote that the Democrats owe a debt of gratitude to Trump "as it sweeps away a cautious mindset." Well... maybe an overly-cautious... and if it does. It sure hasn't yet. Luce bids us to listen carefully so we can hear "the retreat of the Democratic establishment." I'm trying.

Police PR, mosh pit opera and Ticketmaster Taylor + this day in history w/Flight 007 and our song of the day by Mastodon on your Morning Monarchy for September 1, 2017.

(ANTIMEDIA) Kanye West has become a household name, not necessarily for his music, but for his absurd remarks, belligerent publicity stunts, and self-worshipping persona. He is the personification of the perpetual narcissistic image that mainstream hip-hop culture has come to represent. He embodies the “I’m the greatest” complex that modern rappers use as a crutch to get around the fact they lack any real substance to add to their lyrics.

“They just don’t get it.” Yes, the phrase is overused, yet, all too appropriate when addressing the continuing critiques, from both the left and the right, of Bill Ayers. The recent publication of the second phase of his memoir, Public Enemy: Confessions of An American Dissident (Beacon, 2013), was followed on the “SDS and ‘60s Leftists” page of Facebook by an un-thoughtful conversation on Ayers, his comrade and wife Bernardine Dohrn, and the Weather Underground (WO).