The TESC Administration met on May 5th to discuss some rather interesting things, as revealed by an Agenda found in the garbage today just outside the police office on Evergreen College's campus. Check out the people attending - including at least one person from the Dispute Resolution Center. This meeting evidently led to the opening of confidential negotiations between several community organizations, TESC, and the City of Olympia to create an event - some kind of discussion - which would address the recent incidents of police use of force and responses to that violence.

Finally got cable internet on the boat!  Now I can look at useless stuff online EVEN FASTER!  :-)

Of course the cable guy didn't know how to set up an instalation on Linux...  And running the cable to the boat was just annoying.   Oh well.  

No more sitting up in the laundry room using the wifi from the bar upstairs!

In many ways the 1920 Washington State gubernatorial election was a replay of 1912. The incumbent (1912 Hay, 1920 Hart) was a status quo Republican who had inherited the office as a result of his predecessor's death. The Democrat was a Puget Sound-based moderate (1912 Lister, 1920 Black), and the real-threat third party candidates were coal-mining King County Scotsmen named Bob (1912 Hodge, 1920 Bridges). It was Bob Bridges bad fortune to run an aggressive campaign for Governor in the age of "Return to Normalcy," when the voter audience was growing weary of progressive visionaries. Even so, as the candidate for the Farmer-Labor Party he placed an impressive second in the midst of a Republican sweep.

1920 was the third serious attempt to break the back of the two-party system in Washington. The first, in 1896, resulted in the election of John Rogers and his Populists to every statewide office. But four years later the bubble had burst, and Rogers himself was re-elected as a Democrat. Then in 1912 the Progressive Party, led by Theodore Roosevelt, won the state's electoral vote and elected a controlling chunk of representives and senators to the State Legislature. But they also evaporated as their ideas were co-opted by both major parties. The 1920 Farmer-Labor Party uprising was a bit different in that it didn't have it's genesis as a splinter off the Republicans or Democrats. Rather than mostly drawing people away from the Big Two (although many Dems fled to the FLP), the FLP served as an umbrella for other disenfranchised groups. For example the Socialists, who had a candidate for Governor ever since 1900, endorsed the FLP in 1920.

Maybe I missed a blog, but does anyone have something to say on this noise law? If, according to the article in the zero, 'normal conversation' is between 55-65 decibels, and the ordinance would make it illegal to make more than 65 decibels of sound between 7a.m. and 10p.m., and 65 decibels from 10p.m. to 7a.m., what are we going to do??? Do we all have to whisper now when we are in the downtown area?

(Rod MacKenzie was formerly employed by the late mafia boss Sam Giancana and was in Cuba during the Bay of Pigs fiasco. When JFK came to Dallas, Rod was running a “safe house” and privy to the cast of characters involved with the assassination. He recently did an exclusive interview with ConspiraZine, which will be available soon on CD. The following is an excerpt of his upcoming book, The Men That Don’t Fit In.)

Introduction

I have been asked by friends why I care to relate what I know about the events leading up to the killing of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and consequent cover-ups and diversions. It is not easy to answer because in revealing these facts as I know them, I open myself up to being branded everything from a nut case to a wannabe, kook, or liar. I am none of these and care little what the reader thinks. These facts have gnawed at my gut for 46 years and I do not care to head for the eternal dirt nap on the Great Midway Beyond without making an attempt at stating what I know and saw at that time.

I took a trip to Dallas to hunt up journals I kept at the time, so the events are completely accurate, though some of the times and dates will be a bit off. I did a lot of moving in those days; carnival and circus types and agents do that. The months prior to going to Dallas get a little mixed up, but the chronological order is accurate, as are all the Dallas events up to the time I split. I was stable enough to have steady housing, a phone, and a second job in nursing while in Dallas, which enabled me to keep a pretty good account in my log. Later and before Dallas, I only kept a record of finances, travel miles, and sometimes an event of note.

It's Peabody Magical Mystery Tour.

Learning Stick Technique from Karma Chocolate Pudding

Peabody and Grump's destroyed slipper

12 mini-reviews for the short attention span, taken from dark corners of stevenl's video vault: