tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post5785504060373197372..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: The Passing of Iron PegBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-28701254782640933572013-04-09T13:31:05.854-04:002013-04-09T13:31:05.854-04:00"I Confess" that I am beyond ignorant of..."I Confess" that I am beyond ignorant of anything to do with the late great(?)/not-so-great(?) Margaret Thatcher.<br /><br />HOWEVER...<br /><br />I do love the The English Beat. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnAQRodZNp0<br /><br />Thank you for inspiring me to spend the afternoon bouncing around my house whilst listening to my EB collection.<br /><br />squirrel_e_girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09423530609601487092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-26171441855161598172013-04-09T13:01:33.635-04:002013-04-09T13:01:33.635-04:00the overall short-term focus at the cost of any so...<i>the overall short-term focus at the cost of any sort of sustainability is what makes now different from then</i><br /><br />Mikey, I really think that this crap in both the UK and US started with both of these creeps. By today's standards, they, in their times, would be considered unconscionably liberal (although I am sure they would have adjusted quite successfully to today's environment), but in their times they were very hard right turns, made room at the table for the Birchers and old guard Tories (and in Ronnie's case, the fundagelicals), and really created the basics for today's garbage barge.Rev. paleotectonicshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05075546930890385711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-72906201989102099842013-04-09T10:39:03.955-04:002013-04-09T10:39:03.955-04:00That's nothing more than as it has always been...That's nothing more than as it has always been. It's like saying we still breath oxygen. The WAY the rich are getting richer, the speed and opacity of technologies like algorithmic and high speed trading, the blatant kind of savage corruption and the willingness to starve the people who represent the 'market' - the overall short-term focus at the cost of any sort of sustainability is what makes now different from then...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-45639548242101587382013-04-09T07:50:19.059-04:002013-04-09T07:50:19.059-04:00NOTHING about the 20-teens is remotely similar to ...<i> NOTHING about the 20-teens is remotely similar to anything about the 80s.</i><br /><br />Really, mikey?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-07/where-bank-regulators-go-to-get-rich.html" rel="nofollow">The rich are still getting richer</a>.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-42871988839736193302013-04-09T03:01:00.728-04:002013-04-09T03:01:00.728-04:00the jaunty little number with depressing lyrics:
...<i> the jaunty little number with depressing lyrics:<br /></i><br />I did a long, soul-baring intense post about seeing them on one of their Resurrection tours, where I pointed out that almost ALL of their lyrics were bleak or depressing, while the music was poppy and upbeat.<br /><br />I am with you, though, I love cheerful sounding songs that are horrible. I also like depressing songs that sound just as depressing as they are.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-56567459961218566172013-04-09T00:28:23.554-04:002013-04-09T00:28:23.554-04:00The Mekons did even better.
Also, my sadness abo...<a href="http://backtotheworld.net/2013/04/08/carls-tuesday-musics-on-monday-empire-of-the-senseless-the-mekons-1989/" rel="nofollow">The Mekons did even better.</a><br /><br />Also, my sadness about her passing is that it seems to be forty years too late.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-20278224986649560752013-04-08T23:16:38.510-04:002013-04-08T23:16:38.510-04:00The initial reports had Reagan not making it out a...The initial reports had Reagan not making it out alive. So we went straight to the whiskey because somebody was likely to do something horrifically stupid. <br /><br />But the old fucker didn't die after all...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-20435381681899831762013-04-08T21:58:00.097-04:002013-04-08T21:58:00.097-04:00That Stand Down Margaret has a great ending. I su...That Stand Down Margaret has a great ending. I support covering your audience with crap.Substance McGravitashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118764163822188800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-54240157296413916242013-04-08T18:51:51.273-04:002013-04-08T18:51:51.273-04:00Meh. Let them jack off on the graves of ancient ru...<i>Meh. Let them jack off on the graves of ancient rulers. I WAS there (I remember sitting in Teds having a late lunch the day Reagan got perforated in DC). </i><br /><br />I remember having a beer in a bar the night Gulf War One started and thinking, "Holy shit, we're at war, and it's on T.V." Then I had another beer.Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-45177447493015560512013-04-08T18:07:59.398-04:002013-04-08T18:07:59.398-04:00Meh. Let them jack off on the graves of ancient r...Meh. Let them jack off on the graves of ancient rulers. I WAS there (I remember sitting in Teds having a late lunch the day Reagan got perforated in DC). It's all every bit as pointless as arguing over which movie or band is "more conservative". In a sense, it's even MORE pointless.<br /><br />Because here's the thing. The eighties were thirty years ago, a generation on, and more importantly, NOTHING about the 20-teens is remotely similar to anything about the 80s. The policies, the actions, the words, from "tear down this wall" to Maggies take on Gorbachev - "We can do business together", none of it has any bearing on the world we find ourselves in today.<br /><br />They offer us nothing but filler for highbrow films, dusty tomes and spittle spewing political blogs. The so-called "conservatives" look to the past for answers, because the world of today truly befuddles them, but alas, there are no answers to be found there, not for them, and not for us...mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.com