“And Barack Obama will require you to work.
He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism, that you put down your division, that you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones, that you push yourselves to be better, and that you engage.
Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual – uninvolved, uninformed…”
More people are beginning to notice that the candidate’s superbly crafted image as the postracial uniter doesn’t quite add up. He is supposed to bring us together to overcome our tragic history of racial enmity, etc. Yet his role-model magic doesn’t seem to have worked on his own wife, who continues to vent her anger over the racial indignities she feels she endured more than two decades ago at ultra-liberal Princeton and Harvard Law School. She remains perennially peeved by her relatively poor performance on standardized tests.
Perhaps it’s not a topic of conversation here, but among the normies with whom I sometimes discuss politics, the point that even a slightly better than mediocre response to COVID would have gotten Trump re-elected is one that I often hear. Obviously, we have examples of absolute gross right-wing incompetence in Brazil, and whatever-wing incompetence from AMLO in Mexico, but what would an OK-but-not-great “conservative” have done? Strangely enough, we might have a bit of a clue in the Canadian province of Ontario.
You might remember Rob Ford, the drug-addled and fairly crazy Tory who was mayor of Toronto for a hot minute. If not, here’s a refresher. Well, his brother Doug, who was the brains behind the Ford operation all along (to the extent that it had brains) is now the Premier of Ontario. Ontario politics are strange Rob and Doug Ford rose to power in formerly more liberal Toronto because of a 1998 amalgamation that added in their banjo-on-the-porch suburb to the city. A
Do Nothing interview: Frontman Chris Bailey breaks down their Glueland EP track-by-track
Hotly-tipped Nottingham four-piece Do Nothing have returned with their new EP Glueland, the second released during lockdown following 2020 s excellent debut Zero Dollar Bill. Frontman Chris Bailey breaks down Glueland track-by-track for Daily Star s Rory McKeown
Do Nothing s Glueland EP is out now via their label Exact Truth (Image: Adrian Vitelleschi Cook)
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The bass doesnât get the attention of its flashier, six-string cousin.
Yet, talk to musicians and theyâll tell you that the bass is at least as important as the guitar â or, really, any instrument â since it sets the groove as it marries the rhythmic and melodic elements of a song.
California s Bay Area certainly has had more than its fair share of great bassists over the years, ones who could not only be counted on to hold a tune together but also found ways to repeatedly steal the spotlight.
Itâs time to celebrate those mighty groove masters as we offer up our list of the top 25 Bay Area bassists of all time.
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