Comments on: passings: james brown and gerald ford

By: frog-blog

frog-blog — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:34:56 +0000

Doug: after listening to KEXP’s tribute to JB I have to admit, he was damn funky. I was probably too young to appreciate his funk at the time, but too cool to admit it. (I just found the SNL skit on youtube; pretty funny!)

By: monkey aka dOd

monkey aka dOd — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:39:46 +0000

I remember it well. Rep. Gerald Ford was a nonentity, go-along with the party line, republican, for years. That’s why he was picked to succeed the disgraced Spiro Agnew. At the time of his selection, there was public chatter along the lines of ‘the fix is in’; if he’s named Veep, it’s clear sailing for Nixon. When asked if he’d “pardon Nixon” if the guy resigned and Veep rose to the Office, he replied, “The American people wouldn’t stand for it.” Of course he did; and the American people, then as now,
went about caring more about superficial trivialities than the entropizing of their liberties.
But looking around at the current crop of politicians (and those departed as well), there really isn’t much difference among them regardless of gender, race/ethnicity, party, height, weight, food preferences, or what have you.
I’ll sign off by leaving a couple of quotes I’ve enjoyed for years.
“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctively native American criminal class exccept Congress.” Mark Twain
“Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.” I.F. Stone

By: Tana

Tana — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:40:31 +0000

I think that Gerald Ford also served on The Warren Commission that “settled” the issues of JFK’s assassination.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:42:17 +0000

My fondest memory of James Brown doesn’t actually include him; it’s the celebrity hot tub party skit on Saturday Night Live.