Music Friday: "Baby Don't Leave Me Alone with My Thoughts"

Here's a great song by Lake Street Dive. It's the first song on Free Yourself Up. 

Music Friday: "Almost Everything"

Here's a deep cut from the fine band The Hold Steady. 

Random Notes from a Crank

The Premier League season got off to a start a couple of weeks ago. I've been watching Tottenham Hotspur and Wolves matches. 

St. Louis finally got awarded a MLS franchise, which is a big deal. After the Rams left, I thought that city would have gotten MLS franchise more quickly. 

Like this columnist for the Post-Dispatch, I'm wondering what the team will be called: "MLS Is Coming, but What Will the St. Louis Team Be Called?" 

I just hope they don't go with the copycat names like FC St. Louis and St. Louis United. 

Here's are monikers I'd consider, some of which come from the video:

• St. Louis Rivermen
• St. Louis Trailblazers
• St. Louis Spirit

If they're smart, the GM will recruit well known Bosnian futbol players because St. Louis has such a large Bosnian immigrant population. 

Music Friday: "Exploder"

It's not Friday. I'm way late with this. 

I've been listening to Audioslave quite a bit lately. So enjoy this fine tune from that band. 

Music Friday: "Hound Dog"

Here's the original tune from Big Mama Thornton, which Elvis obviously made his own to white audiences. 

Thievery...

Random Notes from a Crank

In the wake of the mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso this weekend, I'm sure the apologists for Moscow Don and the NRA will cite the "troubled minds" of the shooters, send some worthless thoughts and prayers, and do absolutely nothing. 

Three writers for the Washington Post get it. 

The first is Philip Rucker's "'How Do You Stop These People?": Trump's Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Looms Over the El Paso Massacre."

The column by EJ Dionne Jr. is spot on: "On Guns and White Nationalism, One Side Is Right and One Side is Wrong."

Here is most of a ¶ that is worth a read: "But may God also judge Trump for a political strategy whose success depends on sowing racism, reaction, and division. May God judge him for stoking false and incendiary fears about an immigrant 'invasion,' the very word echoed by the manifesto that police suspect was the El Paso shooter's. May God judge the president for cutting programs to fight white extremism at the very moment when the FBI is telling us that we are more at risk from white-nationalist terrorist than Islamist terrorists." 

The title of Jennifer Rubin's column coheres with my thoughts exactly: "There Is No Excuse for Supporting this President."

Her last ¶ is trenchant: "In sum, we are awash in hate crimes and white nationalist-inspired mass murders. We have a president whose words inspire and bolster perpetrators of these heinous acts. That makes Trump not only a moral abomination, which no policy outcome can offset, but a threat to our national security. Those encouraged by his words in recent years kill more Americans than Islamist terrorists. If that is not justification for bipartisan repudiation of this president and removal from office at the earliest possible moment I don't what is. Those who countenance and support this president for his white-grievance mongering are not merely 'deplorable' but dangerous."

I don't care whom the Democrats nominate for president. Hell, I'll back Biden even though I've never been that impressed by him, and his policy stances are somewhat wishy-washy. 

We need to get that pathologically lying, white supremacist, sociopathic con man out of the White House. 

Music Friday: "Green Machine"

Here's a great hard driving song from the defunct band Kyuss. 

Time to rock.