An election shouldn't be anything like a horse race

“The handicappers influence the betting … the horserace coverage is more distorted than ever.” My only quibble w/this analysis is it was too extreme long ago in parallel w/media consolidation & declines in media literacy. www.wnycstudios.org/story/on-…

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Thunder From the Mountains

Really digging this Orson Welles radio play about Benito Juarez and the Mexican resistance to French imperialism being aired tonight on an NPR affiliate. I’m sure it’s a flawed telling of the history, but I dig Welles and its a more in depth telling of what Cinco de Mayo is an observation of than most mentions in broadcast media now.

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Sundown in Cane Beds, Arizona.


Sad that many of the people I’d most like to share and interact with in a rebooted, perhaps more ethical, social media are so uninterested in trying, given their experience with the crassness of Facebook, Twitter, etc (and many of their users).


The shadow of The Sundial falls across Zion Canyon to Twin Brothers and The East Temple at sunset.