buzzsawmonkey 2/12/2020 6:08:39 PM

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Occasional Reader 2/12/2020 6:10:09 PM

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buzzsawmonkey 2/12/2020 6:18:31 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 2:

I had to take "sexual harassment training" (by video) a while back.  I don't know why that was necessary---I know how to do sexual harassment, even if I've never actually utilized the knowledge.

buzzsawmonkey 2/12/2020 6:26:58 PM

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I was listening to some variations on "Careless Love" today.  It would be interesting to do an album/disc of seduced-and-abandoned songs; "On Top of Old Smokey," "Careless Love," "Bury Me (Beneath the Willow)," "The Butcher Boy," "Home, Boys, Home," and "The Sentry Box" spring to mind.  

The line in "Careless Love" about how "You loved me when I wore my apron low/Now I wear my apron high" (i.e., you loved me when I had a waist, but now I'm pregnant and you don't love me any more) is pretty elegantly done.  

Anyway, I was reading something about Amy Klobuchar talking about how, even though she is rabidly pro-abortion herself, she wants to entice "pro-life Democrats," should any exist, to vote for her, and it started me thinking about there being an entire genre of such songs which, in the pre-abortion days, were meant as warnings about consequence.

buzzsawmonkey 2/12/2020 6:28:45 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:

Getting a little more modern, both "Wake Up, Little Susie" and "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" are more or less in the same tradition.

Kosh's Shadow 2/12/2020 6:35:58 PM

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In #4 buzzsawmonkey said: "pro-life Democrats," should any exist

Someone identifying as one confronted Mayor Pete a few days ago, and he seems to feel abortion is OK up to delivery.

So, Democrats support killing an innocent baby but not a guilty adult.

Maybe they'd support the death penalty if we called it "very late term abortion"?

buzzsawmonkey 2/12/2020 6:40:45 PM

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In #6 Kosh's Shadow said: Mayor Pete...seems to feel abortion is OK up to delivery.

There's probably a sardonic joke about the Democrats, Amazon, and "package delivery" in there, but I can't quite think of it yet.

buzzsawmonkey 2/12/2020 6:43:09 PM

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In #6 Kosh's Shadow said: not a guilty adult.

I remember back in my law-school days there was a lot of anti-death-penalty agitation on the grounds it was "cruel and unusual."  "Life without parole" was "sufficient punishment."

Well, the "death penalty" has certainly become "unusual," since it is now practically a guarantee that one will die of old age in prison.  Meanwhile, "life without parole" is now being inveighed against as "cruel and unusual."