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@Mik said in Bill Moyers, 1934-2025:

Wow. Another real journalist gone.

Yeah, he really was the real deal when it came to journalism.

I really enjoyed his programs on mythology and spirituality that were broadcast on PBS stations back in the 80s.

RIP good sir.

No BBC subscription fee in this country.

No indication in the pipe of one either. Certainly not for World Service news.

I always thought it was the Americanised version of the Valkyrie battle cry Hojotoho in Wagner’s Die Walküre

@Axtremus said in Chilling news about Thomas Massie:

@Mik said in Chilling news about Thomas Massie:

Sometimes I find it hard to believe he doesn’t drink alcohol.

Looo up Auto-Brewery Syndrome. It’s a rare medical condition where the digestive system synthesizes alcohol from carbohydrates on its own. A person with this condition can become intoxicated without drinking alcohol.

There was an episode of Doc Martin where the storyline centred on a patient suffering from just that very syndrome.

I doubt though that Trump’s affliction is physiological. Rather his pathology is a personality disorder firmly residing somewhere in the vacuous space between his ears.

They should set up a 12 step rehab programme just for him and call it BeeEsser’s Anonymous.

Trump might want to put a sock in it at least for a day or two. In the meantime he ought not confuse Iran with the Persian Empire. In ancient pre Islamic times, the latter was periodically great, Iran on the other hand, has never been great.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ckg3rzj8emjt?post=asset%3A5d890f70-ce83-43b2-aef8-b2a14e5b456d#post

Canada’s gain.

U of T is a great university- the Eastern European history department is first class. The Munk School of International Affairs is as well.

Both will be welcome in this country. They should have no trouble assimilating into the culture here providing they don’t feel obliged to become Leaf’s fans.

@jon-nyc

Presumably it was decided she didn’t have a need to know.

Let’s see what kind of war time President Trump is. He’s crossed the Rubicon although I agree the Iranian regime left him no other choice than military action.

Well, I got that one wrong. Bigly wrong.

@jon-nyc

That’s the Scriabin Prelude I was referring to in my earlier post.

It has a particular attraction to me as a music miniature, not least because it evokes very pleasant personal memories of a sunny autumn afternoon walking along the Garden Ring park surrounding downtown Moscow amid the mature oak, maple and linden trees.

I used to hear from my engineer that “it would not go bankrupt; it’s too big to fail”.

Wonder if they knew one another?

TNCR until recently.

No he won’t.

He is not a war time president.

Edit: …and Trump knows that himself.

….and the price of oil.

Trump is psychologically committed to (or obsessed with) cheap oil. A full on war with Iran would drive the price of a bbl of oil through the roof.

All depends under what conditions Iran’s unconditional surrender to the US is achieved.

@jon-nyc

Had to listen to Brendel’s recording of Liszt’s B minor Sonata recording during an undergrad Music History course. The prof, a vocal disparager of Liszt and his music, loved the recording and praised it to no end in class. At the time I had already owned two recordings (still have the vinyls) of the sonata - Arrau’s and Argerich’s.

The word “trite” best describes Brendel’s interpretation in comparison to Arrau and, at the time, a very youthful, Martha Argerich.

@Horace

Interesting presentation. Beehoves me to listen again to some of Brendel’s recordings of Beethoven. Not sure about Liszt though - I remain convinced that he never “got” Liszt the same way as did the likes of Horowitz, Arrau, Cziffra, Ogden, Wild, Bolet and Argerich.

@Horace

That seems obvious, but I agree it's not said out loud much.

It would be what Donald Rumsfeld termed a “known unknown”.

Nobody in the know likes to conjecture those in public.