Chris Hayes, at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, hosts a town hall with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Green New Deal and how it's about more than just climate change ...
I'm still waiting to see Bohemian Rhapsody, the movie about Freddie Mercury and Queen - there's quite a wait at Netflix - but today I was thinking of a song by Queen that I especially liked. It was the theme for one of my favorite movies, Highlander - Who Wants to Live Forever. For those who aren't Highlander fans ...
Christopher Lambert plays swordsman Connor MacLeod from the Scottish Highlands, known as the Highlander, one of a number of immortal warriors who can be killed only by decapitation. After initial training by another highly skilled immortal swordsman, Ramirez (Sean Connery), MacLeod lives on for several centuries, eventually settling in New York City, managing an antiques shop. In 1985, he falls in love with a police forensic scientist named Brenda. He also finds out that he must face his greatest enemy, Kurgan (Clancy Brown), who wishes to kill MacLeod and to obtain "the Prize" – a special ability which is given to the last living immortal warrior, vast knowledge and the ability to enslave the entire human race.
Here's Freddie at Wembley Stadium, 1986 ...
And here's the Highlander video of the song, showing Connor and his wife Heather, who ages and eventually dies while he remains immortally young ...
Today the Senate discussed the Green New Deal, with Republican Mike Lee floating a plan to use Tauntauns for transportation in Alaska (be patient, first there's a Velociraptor ) ... ...
And thus the empire strikes back. Sadly, climate change and the damage it's already causing is no joke.
At a special City Council meeting in 2006, a billionaire real estate investor unveiled his vision for redeveloping downtown El Paso. To replace tenements and boarded-up buildings, he proposed restaurants, shops and an arts walk rivaling San Antonio’s River Walk.
Representative Beto O’Rourke, one of hundreds attending, wasn’t exactly a disinterested party.
Not only had he married the investor’s daughter, but as a member of City Council, he represented the targeted area, including a historic Mexican-American neighborhood.
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Mr. O’Rourke was perceived by many as siding with the moneyed elite against angry barrio residents, small business owners and even the Jesuit priests who ministered to the immigrant community at Sacred Heart Church.
“Mr. O’Rourke was basically the pretty face of this very ugly plan against our most vulnerable neighborhoods,” said David Dorado Romo, a local historian who added that the episode had resurrected longstanding race and class divisions in the city.
Barrio residents feared that they would lose their homes through eminent domain, and a city-funded branding study suggested that the residents of El Paso were perceived as “dirty” and “lazy.’’ Among some constituents, the hurt feelings have lingered ...
As I wash dishes I'm listening to this CNN town hall meeting with one of the Democratic candidates for the 2020 election - Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg. I like him very much ...
Last week Vicky (a neutered male despite his name) got into a pretty bad cat fight and had to go to the vet. Very stressful - I couldn't see him very well and just saw blood and thought maybe he had been hit by a car. My sister came over on her lunch break from work and we spent half an hour just trying to catch him. Th vet shaved and cleaned part of his arm and part of his back where the worst bites and scratched were and he got an antibiotic shot too. He seems to be doing well now. He reminds me of a little yellow sheep with his sheered areas.
