Saturday, May 20, 2017

54. 5/20/17


Tillerson: "The people in the rest of the world do not have the time to pay attention to what's happening domestically here." Nothin' to see here, folks ...




"'I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job ... I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off. I'm not under investigation."



Spectacular videos.


"If Trump makes it clear he knows what country he's in, it'll be a triumph."



A wonderful description of György Ligeti's String Quartet No. 1:

"In this visionary work, the ensemble often functions as a unit, creating an array of strange effects. The Calidore players performed it with synergistic brilliance and ferocious commitment.

The quartet's palette ranged from the subtle and creepy, as in the insectoid chromatic stirrings of the opening, to grunge-based grit. A few bars of barely felt hummingbird trills morphed into a section of full-throttle, aggressive tremolo bowing ..."




"When Daniel Murphy, then with the Mets, missed three games at the start of the 2014 season to be with his wife for the birth of their child, he was criticized on social media by some Mets fans and over the radio by the sports commentator Mike Francesa, who suggested 'you can hire a nurse to take care of the baby if your wife needs help'."

In the olden days, no one took off for just being a Dad! Thank God we've become more enlightened over the years. Except for Mikey. I think he needs a nurse. 

TIME MACHINE
May 20, 1957
60 years ago


Page 1 PRESIDENT'S TALK WILL SEEK TO BAR FOREIGN AID CUTS

"President Eisenhower is scheduled to send a $3,800,000,000 foreign aid request to Capitol Hill early this week and then go on television to try to save the program from economy-hungry Congressmen."

"'The way to feed that inflation is to continue big spending,' Senator [Harry F.] Byrd said. 'The way to stop it is to economize, balance the budget, make some substantial debt payments and eventually reduce taxes in all the individual brackets and on business.'"

A Democrat criticizing a Republic president for spending money on foreign aid. Weird.

Page 4 NEHRU ENDORSES WIDE DEMOCRACY

"Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India told members of Ceylon's Parliament today that 'full-blooded democracy' had the best chance of solving the problems of the atomic age."

But in just 17 short years from this date ...

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