Author: Mark Alexander

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Telling It Like It Is

From Palmer Report:

There’s a reason right wingers have spent the past three years falsely insisting that President Joe Biden is in cognitive decline. It’s because they’ve seen their own guy Donald Trump going senile, and they’ve been trying to get out ahead of it. But at this point there’s simply no way to distract from the fact that Trump’s brain is gone. This sums up it quite well:

“Braindead psychopath” indeed. We need to start making the national political conversation all about how Donald Trump’s cognitive abilities have vanished entirely. That’s the quickest way to make him politically irrelevant.

Hashtags including #DementiaDon and #TrumpMentalHealth and #TrumpIsNotWell all began trending on Twitter as Friday night went on, due to the sheer number of people talking about Trump’s cognitive collapse. It feels like everyone is finally taking this issue seriously. I’ve been saying for months that Trump’s worsening senility is the biggest story in politics, and it’s nice to see that it’s finally starting to be treated that way.

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Bands From The 90s

I’ve always viewed the 90s (the decade in which I spent the majority of my 30s) as kind of a musical wasteland (mirroring my personal life), exemplified by grunge rock and rap. Ben and I were discussing this over lunch, and upon digging deeper, I actually remembered quite a few groups/performers that stood out for me during that time. And when pressed to start naming them, several immediately sprang to mind, which makes me realize that perhaps it wasn’t such a wasteland after all:

    • Cowboy Junkies
    • Melissa Etheridge
    • Duncan Shiek
    • KD Lang
    • Vonda Shepard
    • Hooverphonic
    • George Michael
    • Chris Isaac
    • Björk
    • Garbage
    • Pussy Tourette
    • Annie Lennox
    • Marla Glenn
    • The Sea And Cake
    • Engima
    • and of course continuing work from Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, and Madonna, arguably at the peak of their respective talents

What say you? Who springs to mind when you think of the 90s?