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Is Dan Bongino Giving Up On The United States?
Published by Elliot "Alu" Axelman on July 24, 2021 July 24, 2021
Over the past few months, one of the most influential conservatives in the united states seems to have been growing more radical. Dan Bongino has become so frustrated with the current political system that he has begun to advocate for many once-radical proposals on his podcast. Over the past few weeks, he has expanded his platform to include radio and TV. His podcast is the #1 conservative podcast and the #4 overall, his brand new TV show on Fox is very popular, and his radio station is now being syndicated on stations all over the united states.
Bongino began to make a name for himself years ago when he left the secret service, where he worked on presidential details and on other federal security missions. As the Republican nominee for US Senate from Maryland, he lost the 2012 election to the Democrat. In 2014, Bongino lost the Congressional election in Maryland's 6th district. In 2016, Bongino lost in a congressional primary in Florida's 18th congressional district.
His podcast has been steadily growing for years and he has published a few books about federal corruption – which included his first-hand accounts of the disgusting insanity and tyranny that goes on in DC. Bongino has been one of the tougher pundits on the Russia collusion hoax and other anti-Trump conspiracies. Considering that he seems to play the role of a simple blue-collar jock and former cop, Bongino is quite intelligent, principled, and very funny. He also has very good intel, possibly because he spent years in DC working in classified environments. These may be some of the reasons that so many patriots – myself included – love his show.
A few years ago, Bongino gave up on saving Maryland from falling into authoritarian Marxism and he moved to Florida. This brings us to the first important point. It seems that after years of trying earnestly to change the system and fix Maryland, New York, and the whole 'America', Bongino is coming around to what the Liberty Block and I have been screaming for years; The united states cannot be saved, and we MUST focus on saving the few semi-free States. During every podcast it seems, Bongino urges his listeners to give up on the far-gone States like New Jersey and California and to move to the good States if possible. He moved to Florida, which is one of the least oppressive States, and he has experienced this first hand. Likewise, I moved from NYC to New Hampshire and never looked back. Further, the conservative superstar has advocated for 'separating' from radical leftists by building our own societies, complete with all major institutions like social media and businesses. Again, I have been saying this for years. Bongino also seems to support nullification of at least some federal laws. He's only a small step away from advocating for secession of Florida from the union and it seems that his doing so is now inevitable. Biden will surely continue to push conservatives until they have no option but to leave the union.
After years of supporting the US Constitution, Bongino seems to be giving up on it, much like the members of The Liberty Block did over the past few years. During a recent show, Dan said "The constitution is dead… I'm laughing at you if you think it's not." What he seemed to be saying was that the Constitution is no longer relevant because the politicians and their enforcers have demonstrated time and again that they refuse to be restricted by the Constitution. Of course, the founding document clearly prohibits any gun laws, any restrictions on free speech, expression, or assembly, and much more. Yet, politicians consistently infringe on those natural rights that the Constitution promised to protect. The fact is that the Constitution cannot enforce itself, and it unfortunately does not even include any punishments for politicians who willfully violate it. When we citizens violate laws, we are punished. When politicians violate the Constitution – the ultimate law – they are never punished. So, the Constitution is no longer a strong argument because it's been proven to be irrelevant. Further, conservatives (including stars like Bongino, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity, etc.) all revere judges and believe that they have the heavenly power to determine how the Constitution ought to be interpreted. So, the actual words of the Constitution do not matter at all. For instance, when a few judges ruled that 'shall not be infringed' meant 'could be infringed', they proved that the words of the actual Constitution were 100% irrelevant.
Although he is a former local cop and federal agent, Bongino seems to be slowly coming around to the idea that law enforcement may not be filled with 100% benevolent saints. He has condemned cops for selectively enforcing laws against conservatives for corona-fascism crimes while giving a pass to members of Burn Loot Murder (BLM) and other racists. For the past few days, he has openly called for the dismantling of the FBI because they have proven themselves to be corrupt political partisans and not neutral agents of justice. However, Bongino has called for a new federal agency that would act like 'internal affairs' for police departments. Of course, he fails to realize that its replacement agency would likely be just as corrupt, because it would still be a federal law enforcement agency, just with a new name.
My advice
I love that Bongino seems to be relatively open-minded for someone of his stature. He seems somewhat able to admit when he's wrong and does evolve on some issues. However, I do have some advice on things that I hope he can realize before it's too late.
Taxation: Dan, taxation is extortion. Plain and simple. Please ditch the 'Laffer Curve' perspective of maximizing government revenue while also mitigating the harm to economic freedom and production. When I was still a conservative, I believed in such an ideology; that taxes should be low. Now that I am a voluntaryist, I don't believe that we should have low taxes. I believe that we should have no taxes at all. First, it is theft, and theft is wrong. Always. Second, it funds the most demented, evil, vicious, and incompetent sociopaths in the world (politicians). Billions of dollars collected in taxes are sent to groups that are even worse than politicians, including ISIS, Hamas, Iran, and many others. Third, taxation is literally not necessary, even if a robust government is to be funded. I've written articles about other ways of funding the government and I have a book on that subject in the publishing process, as well.
Secession: You are getting closer every day to supporting total secession. Please continue to think about why we would want to remain in a union run by Biden and Pelosi and dominated by citizens who believe that everything we stand for is wrong. So many Americans believe that whites, men, and capitalists are evil because of who they are. Knowing that, would you rather be an American or a Floridian? As Daniel Miller, the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, often asks crowds, "if you were an independent State at this point in time, would you join the Union?". Please read my articles about secession. All of my books explain why secession is the only solution, as well. Again on August 12th, Bongino endorsed secession, saying that "it is way past time for a national divorce".
Police: Considering that you were a cop, I commend you for remaining so open-minded about the role of law enforcement in an ideal society. Consider that the job of cops in 2021 is largely to violate our natural rights (masks, peaceful assembly, free speech, self-defense, self-ownership, etc.) and to collect revenue for politicians. Keeping society safe is no longer necessarily their primary objective. We could do much better. If cops returned to being 'peace officers' who focused primarily on preventing or stopping actual crimes (violence and theft) and also practiced de-escalation instead of escalation, we would be worlds better than we are.
Courts: I am not sure that Bongino understands how much of a lost cause the courts are. I do believe that courts are 100% gone and no longer a reasonable avenue for pursuing liberty. It seems that in nearly every case, judges rule in favor of the government (their employer) and against the citizens. Further, whenever a good law or policy is enacted, one judge immediately 'blocks' that policy from going into effect, even if it means totally nullifying the entire Congress, the president, or any other institution. I cannot understand why so many otherwise intelligent conservatives and libertarians insist that we 'keep calm and sue' as a means of taking back freedom from the very government that owns the courts.
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The host, Hamish, is joined by his parents, Nicole and Fraser, for a brief interview about their lives and life in general
Episode 5 · 1 year ago
My Parents - Episode 4
Cheese settle. All right, welcomeback to episode four of the on the ball podcast. Today is a differentone. Last episode was a change of pace with the marvel movies with myyounger brother, Campbell, but today's going to even be more of a changeof pace, I'd say. Now we're into we've gone from fast following tomedium bowling to spin bowling, and I'm here sitting with my two creators,my two rocks, my two heroes, I would say, my two parents, Nicole and phrase. I'll welcome to the on the wall podcast. Hello. Thanks for having us, Harrysh yeah, no worry, it's welcome to mystudio. That is definitely not dad's work study. So pretty much todaywe're just gonna have it. You know, Nashril Acts Chart on our Sunday Alvo, just going to discuss how everyone's going. I've got a few questionshere about your pass as a couple. I'm not interested in your individual lives, as that they could be episodes to come. I'm not looking to gettoo deep here today. We don't want to be breaking down with bad thoughtson our Sunday afternoon. So yeah, we're just have a relaxed conversation andnice little chat. So is that sound good? Guys? Sounds Excellent Hamish. Yeah, exactly. All right. You guys look nervous. How areyou guys coping in isolation? I know I don't want to talk about ittoo much because that's all we talk about these days. But how are yougoing? Well, I'm kicking out of the park because I've got an office. I'm very, very fortunate. First of all, we got to we'vegot a decent house. Your kids are at the right age. I meanI talk to my teammates at work lots. You've got young kids and it's amuch different environment for them because the stress you young kids and having toschool them and things like that. So working from working remotely for me isfine because because of travel so much, I actually do a lot of workand hotel rooms and airports and she's get used to it and unfortunate that myjob you can do that. So from a from a work point of view, it's good. From a personal point of view, it's starting to dragnow. The like a sport. I'm not a big TV watcher, butso I am. So I run every day just to escape it. Butyou feel like a mouse in a mouse cage. We are inside the cageand then they're the thing. You've got his a little wheel on the sideto run around it. So yeah, I think it's starting to get abit dull and if you're starting to feel a bit trapped, to be honest. M Yeah, been traveling okay, I have. I have days thatlike I'm really enjoying having the family around and that's been good and it's beengreat having phraser around a bit more, because he does travel quite a bitwith his family. So we've had some really nice times out in the backyardin the sunshine. On those particular days you want the microphone back to steadyon. So that's been good. Work wise for me, I haven't beenworking as much supporting the kids at pair say academy. So yeah, that'sthat's been a bit hard because I do thrive on a bit of structure andI get a bit lost with him myself when I don't have as much todo. You know, I mean there's always a thousand and one things youcan do around your house and Housework and tidying and stuff like that, butthat's a bit dull. So and I do miss the contact with the kidsbecause it's a small school. We're quite a close knit family, so Ihave been missing that. But fortunately, you know, to have a laptopand and we catch up on zoom every morning with the kids in a meetingfrom school. So that's been really nice to set their faces and, asphrases said, we're very fortunate as a family. We have a lovely homethat's quite spacious to hang out in with everybody and everyone's got their own spaces, if not more. And also, yeah, we all get on prettywell, like the five of us really get on and enjoy each other's company. Might be speaking out of turn there, but I think we I think wecan get on pretty well and it's true what prayers is said. Imean I've said to friends like thank goodness I don't have toddlers or or primaryschool age kids. So yeah, some but yeah, it is. I'mdraggging on a little bit, but you...
...know, all in this together,all right. So, as you mentioned, we are quite I would say we'revery close family. Like it's hard to say looking from the outside inother families because you don't know really what they do behind closed doors, butI would say we're closer than like my friends, families and people we know. Do you? Is there a reason why you reckon that is? Isit because we may be traveled as a like we had to move where welived, or jacking a something to do with like your upbringings or like?Why do you reckon that is? I look, I think multiple answers.He how me, I need to spare them that. Well, I think. Well, if you go back to my background, coming from Scotland,I came out just drove the very tight family. That's all we knew.We didn't know anyone, and so that really grew a family sort of environmentfor me, very strong family environment. So when I grew up and thenI had my own family, you replicate what you know. You're always goingto replicate what you know. I think the other thing too, is thatis what you said. We've traveled so much, like we jump around Australiaa lot and when we go to new cities we've only got each other,like when we came to Melbourne and two thousand and thirteen has just does andso you do look inwards. And then the other thing too, I thinkwith my travel, with work, when I come home, I want tobe with my family. I don't want to be with other people like Iwant to spend time in my family, and I think also mom and dad, we take a huge amount of interest in you kids, like you know, we like what you do, you know, like going of the cricket, like on the sport with you. So I think we're all got commonshared interests which makes it easy. But I think that's a big one.I think it's some I think it's driven by just it's what we are andthe way we travel and so, as result we've become a close unit.I mean, you could answer that question as well. Why you guys arestill hang around the house before home. Should answer is the answers that intriguingquestion, which is father, and I really want eager to know the answer. Me, I I actually agree with everything prays the said, but Ialso of course I do, just on a few occasions, but I doagree with them. You know, when we have moved around and phrases sortof being able to go off to work because we've moved to a new placebecause of his job. So straight away he's sort of working and we workthings out together. We work out schools, houses, we make decisions together andI think very much. Apart from that, it's quite an open communicationfamily. So we've always really encouraged the kids to that they can talk tous about anything. Were always made ourselves available for them to have a chat, be out front about when they when they came to age to possibly startdrinking, to be up front and honest about that and not sort of hideit. So so yeah, I think I think that's why we're pretty close. Unless you can shed some light on that subject image that we might notknow about. Well, that's why I asked, because I'm just interested,because I like it's a I feel like it's always been hard to explain andsometimes, like my mates find it, as you know, my mates findit quite peculiar when I'll like turn down the opportunity to go out because I'drather actually spend my Sunday night watching then are real or just like watching amovie with my family. So I feel like just like an interesting thing tothink about because you just don't really know, like it's not hard to determine whatlike makes a dynamic, especially in a family, because it's just theway things have always been. kind of like there's not really it's hard topinpoint one thing that kind of created it. But yeah, I guess well doneto you guys. I love my family environment. So for it's onthat one. I mean we got I mean it's a reflection of you guysas well. I mean you're pretty easy. I mean Campbell can be a bitweird sometimes, but you know, you're pretty easy young guys. Soyou use sort of flex into what we do, like we you know.So I think that makes a big difference as well. I think also tolike, while you have similar interests, you've all also all got your ownindividual personalities and individual interests. But I think we've always encouraged you to supporteach other's interests. So, whilst it might not be your favorite thing todo for yourself, your sibling likes to do it. So we've always encouragedyou to to support that. And I...
...remember, like, even when weused to live in Brisbane and friends it sort of make comments to me howthe kids, you know, always want to do this and that each dayof the holidays and stuff like that, and I just didn't I just turnedaround to them and, you know, I said I've got it pretty crazybecause my kids are just happy hanging around the house together, playing with oneanother, which is probably been good, I think. Also, even thoughyou can have like a boy and a girl, but I think it doeshelp maybe having three of the same sex. They sort of look to each otherpossibly a little bit more then maybe if we just had two kids.Mom was a girl, mom was a boy. Yeah, and like,not saying girls can't be into like video games or backyard cricket, but likewhen we used to have a backyard or Campbell, not as much, butlike we would often play in the backyard together or like at the moment,like we're playing a lot of playstation together and like with each other's mate.So yeah, that's probably a good point. Back to your back to your cheapbelow of why we still high. I think it's a bit of astretch. Man. The oldest is only twenty one. If I'm correct,my my sister was, my two sisters, were they still home twenty one,they might have been gone by them. But a different times. Yeah,exactly. Now. Now you got to work like full time, liketen years and I don't believe for to house twenty three when I finished universityand then. So what are you on about, mad but the only reasonI have that reason. Like yeah, but I'd gone off and done acouple of stints in the you know, the gold industry. Yeah, andthen then mine, I had my degree. I had no option, and thatwas a big struggle for me, was that I had to live myhouse because I once I got my degree on you want to be a duologist, I had to leave Sydney and that that was a crisis which is awhole another podcast which we've gone for hours. Did you did you find it easymoving out or, like, found it really hard? I mean Iwell, I had to go to Norseman in, which is near Calgoli,for six months as a student and I found that a little bit difficult,but you sort of go, well, this is what I'm doing. Butthen when I finally graduated and I think I got offer three jobs and Itook they're all in West Australia and I took one. I went and didit for two months, three months, and I quit because it just missedmy family and MS and my lifestyle in Sydney, and so I gave itup. When worked and totally it, got out of it and was goingto go off and do something completely different because I found it a real struggleand it's always. Even now when I'm jumping on a plane, it's astruggle some days like that's good thing about what we're going through right now isI don't have to travel without my family, which is a big plus. Doyou think you struggled away from home at the start because, like,you actually missed your family members always it more just like not living with abunch of people, like did you struggle living alone and like the actually stuffof look, what's the running at us, like you jumped to it. Yeah, it's I've struggled with the word the isolation of where you were likein the middle of nowhere and living with in big camps with people you didn'tknow. And I was a youngest by far, like by far, whereaswhen I went to capital city, I went to Brisbane on my own,I didn't find that as hard because it was in the city and around normalthings, and so I found that but yeah, I miss my mom anddad and miss my sisters, you know. So that was a bit hard atfirst. When, when did you move out? One I didn't getthrown out, but I did leave. I did leave I wanted to makea fresh start wanted to move away from some stress within my family that Igrown up with. So I did move to Queensland to to make a freshstart and I moved for a job and, back in the day, you know, for a little bit of romance as well, which actually wasn't withphraser. That's another story, but but led me to phrase at which isthe main point here. O regret. But Yeah, I was twenty one. I'd sort of gone away for a few months before twenty one and I'myet twenty one lock and I did move up to Townsville at twenty one.I had a job, our fulltime job, and that was great and I lovethat and I didn't move back home after that. So yeah, thatwas me. So basically, like I didn't locks times coming, I didn'tMiss I didn't Miss Home as much as dad did. I was, youknow, I wasn't as in a remote...
...place like phrase. It was,you know, back in out in out back Western Australia. So yeah,so I was sort of Townsville, which sort it was a slow city,like a big country town, really mainly set up for the army. Sobut it was it was nice up there, good weather and enjoyed it, enjoyit. Did a little bit of traveling around and and work, juston short stints. But yeah, even I was home till twenty three.My tear out. He did now. But I just tell you what thedifference is. My parents, because they, you know, they didn't have themoney that you know different times, so they traveled on their own forthe so basically, from sixteen onwards, I didn't go aund hold those mom, Dad, where's you guys still come with us, and I think thatmakes me get invited. It's not like we but the reason we do,the reason I was just going to say, the reason why I want you tobe there, because I do. I travel lots on my own andyou want to share things that I've seen with my family. So I thinkthat makes a huge difference as well, as you get older, that youstill still doing things as a family unit, not just going over too old tohang around mom and dad, which is it's a bit strange for youguys. And also I not I tell I tell my hot are you guys, because I feel like, compared to most families who are in like asimilar like class to us, like social, econonomic class, they go on toholidays a lot earlier, like, for example, were in the lastfew years. We've been lucky enough to do a trip to North America andthe UK and, like a lot of my mates, did that when theywere like fourteen fifteen, and I think you can't just take it in alot more. So I actually I'm very grateful to be invited on things image. That's lovely for you to say, but I think too, there's acouple of reasons for that. We we wanted to achieve a few things forthe security of our family when you guys were young. It's a lot.I mean, whilst it can be cheaper traveling with younger kids, I don'tknow whether it's easier. And also, I guess you know, how muchdo younger kids really keeping their memory banks and appreciate the places that you takethem, whereas now, you know, we can have some really good chatsas a family when we discover new places together and have conversations, and Ithink that's something that binds is to because, as you guys have gotten older,a lot of the conversations we have and we bring up things that havehappened in the past on our holidays with the with the press, which isanother close family that we've done a few holidays with funny things that have happenedon those times that we've shared together, and they're the really important things thatare just too precious to to not have had experience. So yeah, soyou've talked a bit. I was thinking of some questions last night to askyou guys, as you are just searched fascinating subjects. Well, we are, but well, you like to think you are. Rise has been solong since, you know, my podcast debut. So like Racknteur of goodstories, good times, you love, you're full of it. So alot to change since like the S and s when you guys were growing upand aging, which can you say you were growing up in the s?Yeah, yeah, so you grow up in the S and S. Well, I went to school in the s and university in the early S.Yeah, yeah, so is there anything? So lots obviously change from now.We don't have flying cars, we don't have hoverboard. So back tothe future. You know it's not correct. Yeah, yeah, I wanted somuch more. Far failed predictions, but that's where you KFC. Iwas looking for. That never happens. If there's something you could bring fromnow and like take back to your childhood and upbringing, like what would youtake back? Like there's something that is changed in society now. It canbe like a physical thing, like if you want the Internet, you cantake that back, or if it's like something that's just like families are justlike, I don't know, looser now. Or is there something that you wouldchange about your upbringing that you see now in like families growing up?The would maybe, I don't know, just more enjoyments to better experience whenyou were growing up. I look for me would be cheaper, ifest liketraveling. Well, until covid crisis,...
...traveling now compared to when you werekids is huge. Be Difference. A lot cheaper to travel now. Soif you could take back that you would change. I'm not sure about theInternet. You know, it's like from the ease of doing things, like, you know, the the fact that you can have instantaneous information, youcan watch whatever you want, you can do whatever you want really, butthen you didn't have I look back, I was just thing as you askthat question. Would I really want it? If you didn't know you had it, you wouldn't want to. So but yeah, I suppose you couldyou got to say you'd want some of it because you it would be good. But I look at all the things that I did growing up, Ididn't need it. Like I look back down, instead of watching, youknow, instead of wasting time the Internet, you actually out doing things, likeyou're going sporting of it, because you had to do things like ifyou want to see sport, you had to go to sport. Yeah,because you wouldn't see it on TV. So you're a lot more active.I think, not that we're not active. I don't know. Maybe, maybeI don't know. Well, look, I mean if there's also a healthaspect to that, there's more more in technology around health and people livinglonger, and maybe if you learned things when you're younger that would have achange. But then we've been really fortunate. We really haven't had a lot ofhealth issues in our family. You know, my mom's about a billionyears old still life. So yeah, I don't know, I'm Eysh I. I don't know if I take much back. I think I think it'smore a question. What would you I think it's more of an individual thing. Is that I look back now and what other things about me when Iwas in my when I was in my teens and twenties that I would change. So I think it's more that it's not technology, is not gadgets,it's my life experiences and the things that I've learned that I would like totake back. Well, you think everything about this will go to mums forher answer, but think about this. So what about the other way?Like I said, something that you guys didn't have that we have now growingup in the twenty one century that you wish, like kids didn't have accessto or didn't have, like there's something like Jewish social media didn't exist forkids growing up. I'll know I look like I think communic. Join ananswer mom. Mom Can answer this first, but I'm just saying good. Justjust ponder on that second part because I want to give you time toprepare a good answer. So the question was you guys grew up in likethe S and s. You guys grew up in the S and s andnow, obviously you're bringing up a family in the twenty one century. Sothe question is, is there something that you see nowadays in the way you'vebrought us up that you wish you could take back to your childhood? Andapply. It could either be like a dynamical like a relationship of family,or like a genuine physical thing, like a technological innovation. I think outsidethe box. He Hay. Mean, all right, I write it andthrow it out there. It's unlucky you for me and I don't want togo too deep, but it is pretty dame for me saying what my familydynamics is like. I wish this family, our immediate family, the mccorcodiles,you and your children, yes, and my husband, and we'll bringhim with. An't have a dog or account much time. What's can Imust came Campbell's discussed well, your PA. That's you enough. So I wouldlike to take back to my ten ags, to my family, theway our family dynamics and time. That wow. I wish that my childhoodfamily could have been like our immediate family is. Yeah, all right.I won't ask to any further questions on that because I know it's a deeptopic with some unfortunately serious like drama. But I respect that, and soI'm sure anyone who, like grew up in a broken home or a familythe signs privileged as us, would like wish that that could be different.But for the some people are put aren't broken homes don't any different. Yeah, that's and they're happy. So it's a you know, yeah, andoften like pushes preful to strive for excellence. Actually, like as I was watchingthe NFL draft on the weekend and I saw people taking the piss outof it on twitter, which I actually thinks a bit stiff. But mostthe draft he's actually like come from tragedy or like a broken home. Who'sthey probably realize that they've got to work hard to get somewhere in this world. I think that's right. I mean it's I think you do, likeit does help you strive for things.
Like like my grandmother, for instance, was always, you know, pitting her children up, you know,against each other and causing family drama, and my brothers and sisters sort ofhad sort of said to each other, we're never going to let you knowarguments or things come between us, sort of thing. As we're growing upand we're older. So I'm we sort of saw that as not a waythat we wanted to go. So I think that sort of can drive youand you saw things along the way and you went. I didn't, Idon't, you know, that happened and you know, mum did. MyMum did the best to her ability. But in hindsight I don't want tolive my life like that or make those choices and I could see how Icould change things. So yeah, I think that just because you come frombroken home, that's no excuse play the pitty party or victim, you know, like you mentioned about the NFL draft before. There's no that's no reasonto, you know, say you don't know any different, because I thinkyou see enough on social media, through the television, through movies, throughfriends about how things, you know, should develop amongst family and family relationshipsand how things were work. So I don't think that's really ever an excusefor you know, it might, it's it can make it harder for peopleto break out of cycles if they've, you know, growing up in situations, you know, less desirable, but we've got now drugs or, youknow, violence or stuff like that. But I think it's possible to breakthose cycles. So, Dad, what would you eliminate from like the Idon't know, the the raising of a child experience in the twenty one century, like would you what have you seen in our childhoods that you like wishyou could change and an element of your childhood could like, still remain.I think it's some simplicity of life. I look at what you guys doas kids and you got too much on. I think the demands of schools aretoo great. I think you've you've got sport. When you you buildup, and I mean particularly you boys with the sport and dancing, ifyou build that all up on top of your school, if it's huge,and I think I didn't have that. I mean I but I didn't playsport like you guys did, so I had a lot more spare time.But I think that's one thing I would do, is that it's a tryingto make your life's a little bit more simple, and I think a lotof that is I look, I said, it'll work. You know, it'sjust instant demand for information. People now want everything now, and Ithink schools are the same. They want everything now. So I think,think, I think if one thing we could, I would like to changeis to make your life's a little bit more simple and let you enjoy yourlife's because you're only a kid and you're only young for small proportion of yourlife, so you should really enjoy it, but I just worry that there's somuch pressure. Of Mean, whether it's at school or whether you wantto be in rep cricket or REP football or whatever, there's just pressure,pressure, pressure on your kids and I think a lot of that is there. And then I think the horrendous thing is this bullying on social media.I just think it's horrendous, and I mean not I was a victim ofreal bullying at school because it's small, but you lived that because it wasthere in your face when you left the school playground at the afternoon. Youdidn't have it phone your home, whereas I think this environment we're in rightnow of just where it's just absolutely hostile at all levels. I just thinkit's atrocious and so I'd love to get that out of your life's make yourlife simple, but fortunately for you guys, you seem to manage that pretty well. Good answer faith. I think I'd actually I was even before dadmentioned he's things that he would take out of today and put it back.I think I actually agree with phraser. I think it your kids life isa very small proportion of the rest of your life and I think that,yeah, I think it's almost like it's a shame about the social media thingbecause people, some people just revolve their lives around social media and there theirlife is to make other people's life miserable and they could comment on people theydon't even have a relationship with on social...
...media and and say very hurtful,hurtful things to someone else whom they don't even know, and that I actuallyunderstand the impact of their comments or the repercussions that are for the person thatthey've made the comment towards. And I think too, that things could bea bit slower, families could appreciate time a little bit more to spend withone another and maybe maybe relationships wouldn't family relationships wouldn't break down so quickly andreadily now, I think, and I think the outside influence, I meanthe outside influences, things like it's a lot easier and the drugs that maybeare out there in the community are a lot more fierce and addictive and andthat sort of thing nowadays. But yeah, bit slower and just to enjoy likelife for not those pressures. I think social media destroys kids childhoods because, you know, I've had to tell if I'd tell young phraser what todo, you know, like back in the S, it would be dowhat you want to do and don't worry about what people think and take chances. I mean, if you if there's one thing that's in stall into you, mother, you boys and everyone, you've got to take chances every dayto live your life to the fullest problem is with social media you are forcedto conform and you see that at all levels of life, not just familylife. You see it's sporting stars, you see it with politicians. Everyonehas to conform to this consensus and all that's going to do is crush peopleand you lose that freedom. So that's that's why it's bad. It's notjust a bullying, it's a it's a confirmat it's it's destroying the individuality,which that's what you got to be as a human being. Talking of individuals, and we have three individuals in this household that you guys brought up.Who Do you start with, mom first? Who Do you see more in outof us three each like, who do you see more in yourself,and who do you see more like phrase in? And then you can haveyour crack out of that. I know you're chomping at the bit over there. Not Not physically. I'm talking personality. I don't care that we're rangers andDAD's ranger. That's that's a copper and it doesn't have to be.Hamish is the best bloke and I'm a good bloke. So that's it.Like I'm talking personality traits. So sort of where I was heading. Butyou know, that's a hard one, Hamish, because I see bits andpieces of you all, I say bits and pieces of me in you all. I don't. I don't think. I really don't think you, anyof you, look like me. I think Lochlin's Lacklin has some features thatlook very much like my brothers, especially across the eyes and the mouth sortof thing. But yeah, personality wise, Campbell and Lachlin are quite similar.They can jump onto an idea or a fad and play it to deathor do it to death. They're very they can be structured, they canbe quite structured, and I'm quite structured. I like to do if I dosomething, I like to do it, do it well. But then Ican see that attribute come from you. I mess you can be, Ican worry about what other people think. And unfortunately I've passed that. Whydon't you? Thanks. And I can be a warrior and a personwho worries, not a musical warrior. Yeah, and no, no,not a and our warrior. Let me tell you all we want once forwarriors, if you know the movie. But yes, I've thought. Yeah, I can say my personality a lot in Hamish in you, I think, my social part of me. I can see more in Lachlin. AndLachlan, as he's gotten older, though, like Lachlin eighteen plus, I cansee he's social personality, my social...
...personality in Him. But yes,I think the lucky and Campbell's chill back nature comes much more from Fraser thanI. So sorry about that, Homi, but Hamish I have passed on mykindness and thoughtful most to you, I'm afraid. Yeah, caught thatKenvil and yeah, everking really here? Oh, no, I think he's. Yeah, he's gonna give me though. He's later, but you know he'sreally standing at the door waiting for these man. Yeah, okay,you're underpressure now phrase. What about you mate? Yeah, look, it'slike I can see one thing I've got as a huge self drive and ahuge self motivation and Campbell's got that in spades. So, out of thethree boys, I see that mostly in Campbell. I see locks deep obsessionwith things. That's me because I go deep on things and get obsessed mysense of human place. I can see it all three. If you arecan at times, you can be all yeah, like I think all threeof them's got a good sense of humor, which I have as well. Oh, I think I'm a bit I'm not like mom. I'm very muchI'm happy in my own skin. So I'm like lock. I'm happy tobe on my own. I don't need people around me. I enjoy whenpeople around me, but I don't need them. So locks got that.But I've also got big in securities, which you've got you worried. Butthe difference with you, Hamish. You you're completely different to measure, acomplete finisher. I'm not. I'm an eight twenty guy, like close enoughis good enough for me. Whatever I do, I mean what I like. I've got a little bat, I know. I mean you've got lotsof you're very hard like. I don't need to get around. You don'tneed to get you're very caring. I mean month thing that you've. Onething you've all got that I don't have is just sporting and dancing capability.Mean that's just amazing. So that must come from because I look at allthree, few, all three, if you mean. Yeah, probably notas close academically as me. Or you're all a bit off the large exercidelike actually, not now I think you're also, there's no, no,I think you're a bits farther than all three of us. Yeah, butI like not not pumping up your tires, for you are very intell. Soyeah, I think it's there's bits of pieces, but your model bythere's some bad things about my like. E. There's bad things about myback, my personality that you haven't got, which is good. I've not,I think. So I've got just a destructive side to my personality,which is not good, but I manage that really hard and really close andI haven't seen that in any three for you, which is good. Allright, good answers from birth you or full marks. I would say allor I'd say you. Guys were both talking about earlier in a previous questionabout how you moved out at home and you didn't actually live in the samecity. You moved away quite dramatically in this great big land, this thegreat big southern land. Where is? You've lived in many places, likesix or something. I would like nothing too deep here, but I'd likeyou to rank. You can do this together or you can have a spokespersonor whatever. I'd like you to rank your the places you guys have livedtogether. Well, we can. Let's so listening. List let's just listwhere we yeah, first, so we obviously lived in Sydney, but welived, mom and dad lived in different parts of Sydney. I'm talking whenyou're together. So after the pointed together. Well, towns will we started.Then we went to tomorrow in New South Wales. Then we went toOrange, cal Ghoulie, Brisbane and now Melbourne, to six. So wegot a rank that. Yeah, I want one to six, one beingthe best sixpand the world. I mean obviously. I mean, yeah,it's daughter compare. Well, use you. That's right. You Tomorrow's two thousandpeople. Did you enjoy that or not? Look, I did somethingfor me that we needed to do, and that was the reason dad tookthat job was I didn't have to travel. So for two or three years Iwas home every night. So that was important at the beginning of mymarriage because I wanted to give mum for my matter, our marriage to work. I had to be home. I couldn't be away eighty nine percent ofthe time like I used to be. So that served a purpose. Butthat wasn't fun. But it was fun. It was fun in a way thatthat Sydney was closer. Well, it's have to purpose for our marriagebecause it said about yeah, then you've got then you got cal Ghouli,which is a mining town but a great place for kids to go up.Orange was a sort of step up from us, like a much more vibrantcity, a lot more happening in orange because you had good restaurants and good, you know, wine festivals. Plus...
...it was close to the Sydney sothat when locky in and well, you didn't really get to live at homebecause we left by the team. You were so but lock used to getto go down to Sydney pretty regularly, so that was good fun. Thenyou've got the three, the two cities. You Got Melbourne and Brisbane. It'sa toss it. Then the Townsville. I wouldn't look, I wouldn't.I my feeling is if group two more, Calgooli and orange, atthe same sort of level that they were there for, you wouldn't live there. If you had a choice, you wouldn't live there. Right Townsville.I enjoyed townsville, towns it was good fun. The weather's awesome, lotsof again, lots and lots of things to do, a very different lifestyle. But it's been so long since we since we lived there, you knowit's like. But I definitely could go back there. And then you gotthe two big you got the city. So I don't know. I struggle, struggle between Melbourne and Brisbane. I mean, look, I got tobe honest, my preferred place to Sydney. Sydney to me, you know we'remom and dad didn't live there, but Sydney to me as my numberone. So that cities are always going to come below the same and I'mnever lived there. But I love Melbourne because of its vibrant like it's hugeand there's so much do, the so many things to do, but theway this shit and the football ship. So that's why it's also toss thecoin some days, like Brisbane. But then Brisbane you didn't really live inBrisbane. You lived on the Gold Coast. So that's the thing. When youguy lived in Brisbane, but every weekend we go down the coast.So you're not really it's not that city, it's more of an area. Yeah, so I had one. Yeah, it is. It is a hardone to write. It's because you're with such a wonderful woman for,you know, at all of them around, because of because nature, of course, my friends, and you know, we never on our own. Suchlots of goods. I think I always, when we moved around,I always took on I always took chameleon. Yeah, that's right, we're no, I swopped Cambel out in the cow Galley Hospital. But you know, that's a bit of I think. Yeah, I think each place serveda different put it different, not trying to our belt, and and theywere good notches because we made them good notches. So I always whenever wemoved to a new place, I always had the philosophy of I could sitinside these, you know, our house, wherever we lived, and get reallydepressed and not meet anyone, not know anyone. But what, whatpurpose was that going to serve? So so you had to make an effort. So whether it was, I mean tomorrow in towns where we obviously hadn'thad a family yet. So that would that was get that smile off yourface for us. So that was more of a more about getting, youknow, finding employment. I mean praser always had jobs before we ever movedto the new place, which was a good thing. That sort of letme then have time to look for jobs. So that was sort of more aboutpeople that you met through work. But then when we when we oncewe moved to orange, you know, and that was where we first boughtour first family home and we spent a lot of time making that home andpainting and and doing those sorts of things that lots of young couples doing wherewe had Lachlan and Hamish. So that was good for that reason. And, as phrases said, it was very close to Sydney, within and drive. So that was really good for US starting out as a family with twoyoung kids. It was in driving distance, closer to Sydney, so it wasgood for that. But and then caw Gholey was different again. Thatwas a that was a long way away from our family in Sydney, butit was good as far as the mining companies companies wanted to keep families there, so they used to spend a lot of money. So I got heavilyinvolved in the in the family play group center that you're all used to goto, and high mission Campbell, you always used to the two out ofthe three of you. So used to be a race to the arm tothe fairy costume box and the wings and the high heeled shoes that that youtwo used to raise towards when we got there stood to this day. I'llget their first solid so that was a good place as well. But youdefinitely I need primary age school children there. We didn't want to be there afterthat. A lot of people used...
...to send their kids to boarding schoolin Perth. So I think Brisbane for me probably, if on a whole, if I was to take everything into account, I would probably say Brisbanewould be at the top of my list because I had a really good circleof friends and I think when you're dropping off kids to primary school you're muchmore in the school, you're waiting outside classrooms, you're doing parent help atschool. You create really firm, solid friendships that I still have to thisday. And Yeah, we did travel down to the Gold Coast and yousurrounded by a lot of beautiful places in Brisbane and it's a bit like abig country town. But I do love Melbourne as well. But I thinkBrisbane probably probably was number one in Melbourne is number too, if your lifedepended on it. Just quick, one, twenty, six, come up.There's no, there's no reply. I would go for me, Iwould probably go Brisbane, Melbourne, Brisbane, Melbourne. This is probably orange,Calgary, townsfull and tomorrow last, or just not including that? Yeah, look, that'll do the cause been cup. Yeah, probably tomorrow last. I would be Brisbane, Melbourne, towns, will calgoolee, then orangeand tomorrow. Not Big Fan of original New South Wales. I really enjoyedif I could live in Brisbane with the job I've got now and my familyback up there. Yeah, I'd leave Melbourne like the next five minutes.That hurts my feelings, seeing as a me and my older brother were bothfrom Regional New South Wales. So thanks praise. We mentioned a bit earlierof mom likely. There we go. We mentioned a bit earlier. We'vebeen fortunate enough to go on a few great family holidays in the last maybeseven or eight years so quickly would you like? What's your favorite holiday?Is it the most recent why we've been on, or is there another one? Shock candidate, watch, a most favorite family holiday? For me itwas the one we just went on to the UK. And yeahs a reason. Or I was so excited because I hadn't been there before and I've obviouslyseen so much about it and heard so much about it, because a coupleof you guys had been there. Camel and I were the only ones thathadn't been there. So I was so excited. I was like a littlegirl and a candy shop walking along that street for the first time, seeingred telephone boxes and everything that you see on telling any movies, the RedDouble Decker buses, and it was just a great time. We had justgreat chats, just traveling in the car, singing songs together, great quizzes byme. Yeah, great quizzes which are still don't get how we lostthat quiz that night. Yeah, when camell was scoring. I think mathshas got a lot to answer to with that child. But but yeah,I think that's one. I think I loved Canada as well. I lovedCanada, our Canada holiday and that was to still with the family, everyonebeing able to go, but also being able to share that with another family, the press family, give a shout out in Brisbane that it's a familythat we really get along well with and because we don't spend a lot oftime outside of our family unit with other people, it's yeah, we allget on really well. So I'll probably think those two holidays phrase, yeah, look the same. I thought the holiday just recently in UK was outstandingjust because, you know, we got to do so much. Like me, every day was another adventure and you guys good ages. And then Ilike whistler of the well, it was all the hold actually in the sameyear. Its whistled in January and London in December. So whistler was justfantastic because, you know, I hit my marks and my snowboarding, soI was out there. Yeah, no, they're the best. I really enjoyI enjoyed both those. All right, final question to wrap up today's proceedings. Thanks a lot for joining me. The final question where? So youtalked a bit about where you've lived your past, where you've been lastfew years. Where do you see yourself retiring to? So, like where'syour it could be a dream location or actually realistic one, depending on whatyou want. Look, that's a really...
...mom and I I mean first ofall, mom's younger than me. She's not facing retirement and as quickly asI am. I don't know. I mean I don't think I'll be.Well, depends where you guys go. I mean wherever you guys go,we won't be too far behind you. So you're not getting rid of us. I think it'd be pretty sad that if we sat in Melbourne and youguys weren't here at find that really hard. I like I'd like to mean.Obviously you guys are going off do your own things, so that's youknow, that's life. You know you'll you'll move. But where would Ilike to retire to? I mean that you have fantasy retirements and you havea real retirement. To me, Gold Coast for me like cool and gutterbecause I think it's knee Brisbane. Mum Gets to be around a friends,awesome weather, you're on the beach, lots of things to do and it'sjust a great lifestyle. You know, and I think when you're when you'vedone what we've done, you go. Well, I want to live somewherewhich is really nice. You'LD have to worry about the weather. So Ithink that's it. In a fantasy retirement, like a few years to be London. I mean I'd love to go to live in London for two years, but we could do that. I'd have to go there with work orsomehow wrangle a job based in London. But London or Edinburgh, you know, like their fantasy periods. But yeah, I'd love to do that. Butlong term I reckon Queensland. Yeah, everyone else. Yeah, yeah,we doat and night thrust around this subject everyst so often, probably moreoften recently. But Yeah, so's Dad said, like covid makes you thinkyour whole life differently because, yeah, particularly me, I'm getting spends somuch time in my family, which is unusual and I'm loving it. I'mto be honest with you. I you know, you walk out to thecar today, and usually on a Sunday afternoon, by through a clock,you start to look at you watch, going well, what times my planetomorrow morning? And you guys know that a for o'clock. I actually allmy start shutting down because you actually go into the psychological state that you haveto get ready to go. So you lock everything down, your packing badge, you're going to like a Zombie state until you get on that plane.So it's a great feeling right now when I get to the car today andI go well, I don't have to worry about that. I don't knockon anyway. So I think the questions you're asking about the future comes reallyracing up harder because you go, will do I really want to do whatI'm doing right now? I don't know. I really don't know. So that'schange things. But Nicole, yeah, so coming back I'm probably the samespace, probably the same space as dad, I'd say, like Ireally yeah, when you when you retire, you do want you do want tohave nice, be in a place when where it's Nice, whether whereyou enjoy, where you can walk along the beach. For us, youknow, I have the live in an area where the real estate is stillaffordable so that you can, if you've got, if you're lucky enough tohave money, to travel that. Like Dad and I would love to keepon traveling and have fun and go skiing and cash in on those cheaper oldietickets on the slopes. Love. How wait till that day. But butyeah, I'm I'll probably a social distancing. So I'll be. Yeah, I'mprobably about the same as DAB with that and I would love to sortof it is. It is a very hard question, though, Hamish,because I mean, I'm sure every parent comes to this, or maybe theydon't, because maybe they're not, maybe they're not as close as our familyunity is. But I'd hate to be in a place where, and Iknow you guys have got to fly the coop eventually and and live your ownlife, but don't think we're going to follow you and that we don't expectso forbid, always ready for us. So I think we've got Campbell signup on that idea. Will Soo, he's playing along with maybe tomment.Dad. You I get shafted, I get shofted, I might have tocome to your place or sleep on the floor of your room if I'm ifyou guys are sharing. But but yeah, London, I loved London. Itwas Um. It'd be a great experience for a while, I think, just explore. But yeah, I still come back to somewhere like cooland Gutta, or I mean the place is in Sydney that would like tolive. I mean we'd have to live in a very small apartment real estatewise, but that would be another that would probably be the second on thelist as well. You'll be like I over having a house right next tothat. Every Sunday I could just peer over my back fence and it doesreality. Yeah, I knew that would be on the cards. And weknow I'm just jump over again because I...
...just think about I excuse me,phraends, I don't think you just bet. You wouldn't be peering over the fence. That like heart. You be yelling instructions and abuse over the fenceat the coach and the team. Let's be honest, we're very fortunate.In my life and work, I travel so much and you won't stop traveling. So, as mom said, you'll have a base somewhere, but you'llkeep rolling in a bus. You know, expect you guys to be living thesame life. If there's if there's one thing that I hope that I'veinstalled in you, is a sense of the sense of adventure to travel,because I think that's the key to life. If you get off your ass anddo things in travel, life's fun. I think that's a beautiful note.To end on a very wholesome phrase. I'm very wholesome from to absolute legendsof the game. I just like to quickly thank you both being greatparents giving me the opportunity to have a great education, not writing atensign justgreat. You just we just had a great up upbringing. Campbell loock andI very fortunate. So thanks to being great parents, great people, andthanks for joining us on the on the ball podcast. Thanks for having USand thanks for being a great part of our family.
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(South Hadley) The New Thinking on Sexual Orientation and its Expression Over The Life Course
Mount Holyoke Psychology and Education Department present
Lisa M. Diamond, Ph.D, University of Utah
Thursday, November 13, 7:00 pm
Hooker Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
The New Thinking on Sexual Orientation and its Expression Over The Life Course
The past decade has seen profound changes in the scientific understanding of sexual orientation in men and women and its expression over the life course, but little of this information has "trickled down" into conventional understandings of sexual-minority (i.e., non-heterosexual) populations. This presentation will review the most radical changes in our understanding of the origins and expression of same-sex sexuality, including research on sexual "fluidity" (i.e., the capacity for sexual behaviors, attractions, and identities to change over time), differences and similarities between men's and women's experiences of same-sex sexuality, and the implications of this emerging body of work for research, clinical practice, and social policy and advocacy.
Lisa M. Diamond is Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She is best known for her research on female sexual fluidity, which describes the phenomenon of women periodically developing attractions and relationships that run counter to their overall sexual orientation. Dr. Diamond has published over 80 articles and book chapters and has received numerous awards for her research. Her 2008 book, Sexual Fluidity, received the Distinguished Book Award from the American Psychological Association's Society for the Study of LGBT issues.
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Rosebud Ben-Oni
Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a CantoMundo Fellow. She is the author of SOLECISM (Virtual Artists Collective, 2013), a contributor to The Conversant, and an Editorial Advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Her poems appear in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Arts & Letters, Hunger Mountain, among others; recently, her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark" was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City. She writes weekly for The Kenyon Review blog, and teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension Writers' Program. Find her at 7TrainLove.org
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Q: Lines when attempting to color each pixel of the screen? I'm trying to draw a point at every pixel on the screen but I'm getting a weird anomaly: two red lines, one vertical, one horizontal:

My setup is like this:
I've got an ortho projection matrix like this:
glm::mat4 projection=glm::ortho(0.f, screen_width-1.f, 0.f, screen_height-1.f, 1.f, -1.f);

It's just setting the opengl coordinate system to be the same size as the screen's pixel dimensions.
Then, I'm creating filling the data into a vector like this:
for (int i=0; i<screen_height; ++i){
    for (int j=0; j<screen_width; ++j){
        idata.push_back(j);
        idata.push_back(i);
        idata.push_back(1);
    }
}

I'm uploading integers into a VBO with this:
glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, sizeof(GLint)*idata.size(), &idata[0], GL_DYNAMIC_DRAW);

Setting up the attributes like so:
glVertexAttribIPointer(0, 3, GL_INT, 3*sizeof(GLint), (void *)(0*sizeof(GLint)));
glEnableVertexAttribArray(0);

This is the layout of my shader:
layout (location=0) in ivec3 position;

And this is my draw call:
glDrawArrays(GL_POINTS, 0, idata.size()/3);

A: That's a rounding issue, because you did set up the projection in a very weird way:

glm::ortho(0.f,screen_width-1.f,0.f,screen_height-1.f,1.f,-1.f)

In OpenGL's window space, pixels are an actual area (of squares of size 1x1).
So, If your screen is for example 4 pixel wide, this is what you get in terms of pixels
+--+--+--+--+
|0 |1 |2 |3 |  integer pixel coors
...

However, the space you work in is continuous (in principle, at least), adn OpenGL's window space will go from 0 to 4 (not 3), which makes perfect sense as there are four pixels, and each pixel being one unit wide:
0  1  2  3  4  OpenGL window space
+--+--+--+--+
|0 |1 |2 |3 |  integer pixel coords
....

Using OpenGL's window space conventions, the pixel centers lie at half-integer coordinates.
Now you're not drawing in OpenGL window space directly, but you can set up transformation to basically undo the viewport transform (which goes from NDC to window space) to get a pixel-exact mapping. But you didn't do that. what you did instead is:
  3/4   9/4
0    6/4    3  your coordinate system
+--+--+--+--+
|0 |1 |2 |3 |  integer pixel coords
....

And you're draw at full integers in that weird system, which just does not map very well to the actual pixels.
So you should do
glm::ortho(0.f,screen_width,0,screen_height,1.f,-1.f)

However, since you seem to be drawing at integer positions, you end up drawing exactly at the pixel corners, and might still see some rounding issues (and the rounding direction will be up to the implementation, as per the spec).
So, you better shift it so that integer coordinates lie at pixel centers
glm::ortho(-0.5f, screen_width-0.5f, -0.5f, screen_height-0.5f, 1.f, -1.f)

    0.5   2.5
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Anthony "Tony" Kornman (1887 – 17 December 1942) was an American cinematographer, who worked on three films: Cameron of the Royal Mounted (1921), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) and The Ridin' Streak (1929). He was considered a specialist in special effects.

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1942 deaths

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Mujhe Mat Maro Saab
Politics, Race, The Economy
Two days ago we filmed a protest play performed by the Budhan Theatre in front of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Ahmedabad. The play was called Mujhe Mat Maro Saab, or "Don't beat me sir!" The story behind the protest is not too different from the situation in Maninagar (which I wrote about in my last post): They are formerly nomadic peoples whose homes were destroyed to make way for new development as Ahmedabad expands to become a "mega-city." In this case, two children died from exposure to the elements after loosing their home.
This kind of protest play is a new thing for Budhan Theatre. Even though they do "street theater," they generally perform in front of receptive communities and in pre-arranged venues. This was different, and while the performance itself was a great success, the results have been horrifying:
on the next day of the performance the temporary shelters of these people was destroyed by the local authorities.
The shelters that Roxy speaks of are far more meager than what we saw in Maninagar, where they had something I might call "temporary shelters". These people are basically sleeping out in the open, and the destruction of their shelters amounted to their blankets being thrown into the street and their cooking implements being taken from them. When we visited today they were packing up their possessions and getting ready to move — who knows where.
These people were displaced to make way for an expansion to IIM's campus. The old IIM campus is one of the most beautiful college campuses in the world, designed by the famous architect Louis Khan. It is also one of the most selective business school in the world!
While the timing of the attack on the community may seem to have been provoked by the play, it also may have been coming for some time. The week before a prominent article in the English language paper described how IIM students were teaching members of this displaced community (with no discussion of how they had been displaced). The chief minister will also have to pass through that street on his way to attend the annual kite festival next week.
It is unfortunate that the only people speaking out about the forced displacement of formerly nomadic peoples who had lived in this city for generations are the volunteers of the Budhan Theatre, themselves residents of an urban ghetto. There seems to be no other voice here speaking out against the violence being done to pave the way for Ahmedabad to become a mega-city, full of shopping malls, supermarkets, multiplex cinemas, fancy restaurants, and high rise buildings.
The people on the street outside IIM and the residents of Maninagar have a right to their own land according to Indian law, but without documentation to prove that they lived on land that until quite recently was completely wild, there seems to be little that can be done. If you do want to do something, please write to IIM and let them know how you feel!
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On the Spot: Michael Tisserand
By Nick Pittman
Michael Tisserand discusses his new book, Krazy: a Life in Black and White
Lafayette Public Library, 301 W. Congress St.
The author of 'The Kingdom of Zydeco' talks about the book, its reissue and who will next wear the crown.
How did you wind up writing this Kingdom of Zydeco?
I had started writing about zydeco for offBeat Magazine. My friend Robert Mugge, who has documented Louisiana music in several projects including a movie that is not coincidentally titled The Kingdom of Zydeco — he let me cop the title — encouraged me to see those articles as chapters in a book. Happily, I was able to convince a publisher to see it that way too, and I quit my job at Gambit Weekly [a staff position he held after contributing to offBeat[ and moved out to Lafayette for a year to follow around accordion players.
How long did you work on it?
I'd done a fair amount of previous interviewing and writing but devoted a year in Lafayette for nothing but research, and spent another year finishing the writing. There's a picture of me at my laptop in the hospital room the day after my wife gave birth to our first child, in January, 1998. So I'm pretty sure I was on a final deadline that day.
Why was the new edition published?
It's in part a publishing story: Arcade, the publisher of The Kingdom of Zydeco, had gone bankrupt, and it was becoming harder to locate out-of-print copies of the book. Thankfully, Skyhorse Publishing, which has acquired Arcade's catalog, was enthusiastic to release a new version of the book and get it back on the shelves and in readers' hands. I also felt it was a good time to reintroduce some of the voices in the book. At the time when I researched and wrote the book, zydeco was in a major transition. Clifton Chenier had passed away, and now the flame was about to be passed forward by musicians such as John Delafose and Boozoo Chavis.
At the time, I was curious to see what happens as traditional music progresses from hand to hand — what ideas and understandings about the world are passed along with the music. Much of my writing centered on possible tensions between tradition and change, cultural continuity and artistic creation and how musicians themselves talked about those issues. Looking back, the book now serves as a portrait of a time in zydeco that has now passed, when many of the music's pioneers were still filling the dancehalls. I'm very fortunate that I was able to spend time with such great artists as Canray Fontenot, Boozoo Chavis and so many more. I also added a new introduction that brings the story up to date, as well as revised the "Keys to the Kingdom" section to help people find zydeco recordings, documentaries and venues. I'm very happy that Francis X. Pavy's great painting returned to the cover of the book and grateful to Philip Gould and other photographers who allowed their work to be used again. But of anything in the new edition, I'm most grateful — and deeply honored — by the new foreword that Buckwheat Zydeco generously contributed before his death.
Michael Tisserand
Photo by Cecilia Tisserand
What do you think is the biggest change in the genre since the first edition?
The most obvious change is the invigoration of the music by younger players such as Keith Frank, Sean Ardoin, Chris Ardoin, Leon Chavis, Nate Williams, Curly Taylor and others (most of whom grew up in longstanding zydeco families) who work rap, R&B and Southern soul into the sound. This had begun with Beau Jocque and Keith Frank at the time I was writing the book, and these ideas have continued to take hold. We've yet to see where it might lead. I think the school work that Terrance Simien is doing is also a fantastic addition to the scene, with young listeners around the world encountering zydeco for the first time. At the same time, perhaps the most remarkable thing to me is that artists like Geno Delafose and Nathan Williams are still at it, not tiring, still fresh and energetic and creative and still keeping close to the dance floor. It's really a remarkable achievement.
With the passing of Buckwheat, who do you think is the next in line to rule the kingdom of zydeco?
Nobody will ever replace Buckwheat Zydeco. His passing is a great loss. His great contributions to zydeco — and just to music itself — will live on. That said, I think the notion of kings of zydeco had started to fade away years earlier. It had started as a grand show by Clifton Chenier and moved on to different performers until it sort of ran its course. I hope now that people recognize that zydeco is a great traditional music that has always been moved forward by majestically talented artists offering a wide variety of styles, from Chenier to Chavis to contemporary players like Cedric Watson. It's my hope that the book will help serve as a reminder of the music's roots in the work of Amédé Ardoin and offer a few ideas of the directions it might take in the future. The title was always intended to shift the discussion from who might be the king of zydeco, to examining the cultural riches in this great musical kingdom.
If you could hear any one of the subjects one last time who would it be?
Boozoo Chavis. In his carport on Dog Hill on a hot Labor Day afternoon. With his family at his side, and Leona Chavis at the back table selling boudin. And Beau Jocque standing there right in front, just finished with his set, cracking jokes in French.
Nick Pittman is a freelance entertainment and feature writer. To contact him, email pittmanreviews@gmail.com.
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For the first time since 2007, The Weary Boys play the Blue Moon


You can be a leader. You can stand up and serve people, and it's okay.
It's a strange thought to wake up with, but it's one that gives me hope. It calms me and fills me with zeal all at the same time.
When I was younger, probably in fourth grade, we started doing group projects.
Oh my gosh, you guys. Talk about testing the patience of a ten-year-old Amy. In those moments, my life story couldn't have been more tragic than Job's.
Everything inside me railed when part of my performance was tied to a ragtag group of kids burning with Pixy Stix-fueled energy I couldn't control. I tried to be a puppet master, a ring leader, tried to channel my Coach Taylor from Friday Night Lights as I sized up the project, told everyone what they were going to do, and tried not to blow a gasket when, during team updates, I found out they hadn't done what I had told them to do.
I moaned to any adult that would listen (i.e. my mom) about how unfair group projects were, how much I hated them with every fiber of my being, and how they weren't even true to real life because how often am I going to have to work with a group of people where I'm going to be judged by what they do?
Oh, sweet, blissful ignorance. I just want to hug that child.
At some point, I learned that my generalissimo tendencies were not appreciated by my troops. Not that I blame them—I couldn't read a room to save my life when I was younger (and am very much still learning). So like Napoleon during a Russian winter, I retreated. I gave up my post and started to keep my mouth shut to keep the peace.
And I carried that behavior with me long after fourth grade, pretty much into adulthood.
As an adult, I view leaders a little bit differently.
I am responsible for so much, and I am only taking care of myself. I can't imagine if I had a whole family of needy Amys to keep alive and healthy every day. Shout out to moms everywhere—you have my awe and kudos.
Oh my gosh, the glory of someone showing me the way, even just a little bit.
When I don't have to put on a head lamp in the dark, take a machete and hack my own way to blaze a new trail? That is absolutely awesome, and I am 100% here for it.
Never in my life have I wanted to delegate so much. For this control freak, that is a shocking statement, but that is where I am, y'all. Sometimes I am just tired and frozen by the paradox of choice. I have to consciously hand over the reins every once in a while, but when I do, I relax. I smile more. I feel so much more at peace. Whoever wants to drive me like Miss Daisy, here are my car keys, I'm just gonna be over here drinking La Croix and taking a nap—turn on Waze and godspeed to you.
And you know what? I don't begrudge the person who spoke out, who took those reins—quite the opposite. I thank them.
By that same token, if I see how to go forward on the brushy trail, it's my responsibility to put on the head lamp and hack away.
Because we're all doing this for each other, in our own way.
Of course, people are always going to have a different opinion and shout from the back of the pack, "You should've gone to the right! There's less brush there!" But you know what? You're the one with the big knife in your hands, so you might as well keep swinging and make the way easier for those coming behind anyway.
Some people won't appreciate your efforts, but some people will. And those people who will? That's a good enough reason to keep hacking away when you have the vision and energy.
Social compact, y'all. It's a real thing.


In 2012, 28 percent in the Dutch population were highly educated according to figures released by Statistics Netherlands. The education level in the population has risen continually since 2003. The proportion of low educated people declined, the proportion of people educated at secondary level remained unchanged. The proportion of highly educated has grown more rapidly among young women than among young men.


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ONLY IN YORK COUNTY
Ask Joan: New old restaurants edition
Joan Concilio
For the York Daily Record
I recently had the privilege of eating at the new home of Marco's Pizza on Carlisle Road in the West York area - also known as the former home of Alexander's. I've always loved eating at Marco's at their former White Street location, and I grew up going to Alexander's with my parents after church most Sundays. (Soup of the day: Chicken Supreme. Every Sunday. I'm still not sure what the "supremeness" was.) So bringing those two things together was a lot of fun for me.
The new Marco's is great, too. Lots more seating and same great food, plus the space looks amazing. You should definitely check it out. And in its honor, I figured today would be a good time to share some food-themed questions and memories!
More: 'This is my dream:' Marco's Pizza opens in new location at former Alexander's restaurant
Watch this video about the new Marco's (story continues below)
1. Seeking info on East King eatery
2. More memories of Pappy's Pizza
3. What was Cottage Place restaurant?
4. Ritz Ice Cream in Freysville
5. Forest Ice Cream and Jolly Cow
1. What was King Street eatery?
Reader Steve Hanna wants to know the name of a breakfast and lunch counter that used to be on the first block of East King Street, he believes at 27 E. King St.
I know of a few downtown cafeterias, like Les's and the Golden Glow, but neither of those were at that location; Les's was on Cherry Lane, and the Golden Glow was on North George Street.
Then there was the YMCA cafeteria on East Market Street. But... none of those help Steve, so maybe someone can suggest another idea?
(Also: reader Carolyn Caplinger was wondering, "Was there ever a restaurant on East Market St across from the old courthouse in downtown York?" The YMCA Cafeteria was at 100 E. Market, so not directly across, but maybe that's close? Or was there something else there?)
More: Memories of Ahrens bologna and Bury's burgers
2. Recalling Pappy's Pizza
We've talked frequently in the past about the Pappy's Pizza chain of restaurants.
Mostly we've talked about their former locations in York County, but I had a fun note from reader Steven Salati who recalled one elsewhere. "We had a Pappy's Pizza in Colonie, NY," he wrote. "It was the same chain as mentioned... I had a birthday party there when I turned 8. It was 1976. The location is now a famous area restaurant, Grandma's Pie Shop, 1273 Central Avenue, Colonie, NY, 12205. This Pappy's pizza had the same logo, with the straw hat guy, etc."
And similarly, reader Charles "Chuck" Roseberry wrote, "I used to work at Pappy's Pizza Restaurant in the Exton Square Mall. Pappy's Pizza was a restaurant chain based out of Newark, Delaware... the territory ran from Ohio to Delaware and Allentown to Maryland. The chain was owned by a man and his two sons; one of the son's names was Mark Balick. Some of the restaurants were franchises; I think there are two that still operate in western PA. Sadly the one in Newark, DE, closed recently due to competition from Seasons Pizza and Wings and the Grotto Pizza chains. It was a good family pizza restaurant that offered a variety of menu items including pizza, steaks, salads and pastas. They were created the same time Bob Farrell created Farrell's ice cream restaurant, which promised to sing to every child who came into celebrate their birthday at the restaurant. Sadly most of the Farrell's restaurants were bought out and made into other restaurants, but recently I saw a video by Bob Farrell about customer service called 'Give 'Em the Pickle.'"
Believe it or not, I'm actually familiar with that video; it's a customer-service/management strategy I learned about in another job, and you can read all about it at GiveEmThePickle.com.
Finally about Pappy's, reader Pete Brady noted that, as Chuck said, there is at least one Pappy's in business now in Johnstown, PA. In York, Pete said, one Pappy's was next to Roll R Way when it was on East Market St., where the Wendy's is now. "After Pappy's left, it was an Arby's for a short time, then Wendy's," he noted, adding that this location as well as the one in Leader Heights were in business at the same time for a good while in the early 1980s.
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Reader Sally Beck said she is trying to remember a restaurant off South George St to the west in York. "I believe you turned right on Cottage Place... Had a dance club that I went to 1973 or '74."
Any ideas on this for Sally? I feel like I was actually just talking about this place, but I can't "place" it!
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Moving out of the city, I have a question from Nancy Katz, who wanted to know if anyone could share information on the former Ritz Ice Cream Store in Freysville, more toward southern York County.
I'd love any information!
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To conclude today's food stories, I have a note from longtime reader and commenter Bill Landes, regarding a West York-area business. He writes, "The Jolly Cow (owned by Wayne Davis, who later had the Dairy Freeze on Richland Avenute) followed my dad's Forest Ice Cream on the corner of West Market and Forest Street in West York. The Jolly Cow would have been there late '50s and '60s, then became a Friendly's, among other restaurants. Forest Ice Cream would have been there in the early '50s."
Since we started with a new West York restaurant, this seemed like a good note to end on! Thank you all for sharing these great thoughts of our eateries of the past.
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There's nothing like taking the wrapper off a fresh container of ice cream (I'd say half gallon, but no one wants to make those anymore). Anyway, last night I opened a fresh container of Breyer's Double Churn Cookies & Cream. You have to be careful with Breyer's because there are several variations: I had the regular old double churn which uses some skim milk to cut the fat in half but still leave you with a respectable taste (I believe they also call this the Light version). There is also the fat free version which uses no regular milk, just skim (comes in the Chocolate Cookies & Cream flavor and Chocolate Fudge Brownie). The third double churn style is No Sugar Added, which comes made with my arch enemy, the evil SPLENDA. I'm sorry, but I don't buy things with Splenda, end of story.
on second scoop: hmmm, the cookies to ice cream ratio has not remained consistent ...ok, it's actually kind of embarrassing. I think I had better luck on the last container, but keep it in mind.