Jerry Brown, from How Jerry Brow Scared California Straight [Business Week]
It’s definitely akin to Camus’s theater of the absurd.
Here’s another gem from the same piece,
Even more compelling, Brown has a natural curiosity. When he quotes the Yeats poem Byzantium and I say it describes an opium dream, he tells me I was mistakenly thinking of Shelley’s Ozymandias, then quotes that, too. I tell him how academic that is. “It’s not academic! Yeats was not in the academy, as far as I know,” he says. Which is so academic.
And another,
He says his spiritual journeys have made him immune to the public’s love. “My soul is elsewhere,” he says. “I’m not beguiled by the fleshpots of Egypt here.”
And my favorite,
“I’m aware of the Roman Empire. It’s hard to have a rally after 80 BC because you can’t walk the streets. It’s bad news.” As he’s pulled away by his staff, he yells something positive about California—“The sun is still rising in the West”—and quotes Antonio Gramsci: “I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.” Brown is a politician long past being afraid of quoting a Marxist.
The Supreme Court has just announced it will hear challenges to the rulings on same-sex marriage in California (Prop 8) and on the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
Across four Pew Research Center surveys this year, 48% of Americans say they favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, while 43% are opposed. Just four years ago, in the 2008 election cycle, 51% opposed making same-sex marriages legal and 39% supported it. Read more.
![[source]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md3yscTr8v1qzs6yjo1_1280.png)
![[source]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md3yscTr8v1qzs6yjo2_1280.jpg)
[source]
One of my favorite artists, Favianna Rodriguez, recent work in favor of Prop 37.
Some more to consider from Latino Rebels on Facebook who got this from Infowars (alright?) who got this from the Cornucopia Institute.
Los Angeles Unveils Statue of Mexican Singer-Actor Antonio Aguilar
Antonio Aguilar, who died in 2007 at the age of 88, hit it big in Los Angeles. A crowd cheers the statue’s unveiling during Mexican Independence Day celebrations.
Family lore says that when a young Antonio Aguilar arrived in Los Angeles hoping to make it big, he spent nights sleeping on benches at La Placita Olvera downtown.
The Mexican singer and actor, who died in 2007 at the age of 88, went on to make more than 160 records and more than 100 films, building a huge following on both sides of the border. Thousands gathered Sunday to honor Aguilar during celebrations of Mexican Independence Day, when a statue of him was unveiled in a plaza close to the benches where he once slept.
“He made Mexicans feel proud of being Mexican in the United States,” said Martha Jimenez, 40, tears welling as the crowd cheered and cameras flashed. “He was a beautiful person.”
Read More at the LA Times
Photo Credit: Jay L. Clendenin, Los Angeles Times
A great singer and I’m related to him via family marriages.
If you want to listen, Triste Recuerdo is a staple of any party.
From technicallyhuman,
Parking at Berkeley is really competitive.
That’s certainly one way of describing it.
