Month: August 2025

Terrible New York Times column ignores Republicans as the reason we don’t have better gun safety policies

Is everyone afraid of Trump and telling the truth?

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com“Among the many tragedies of the Minneapolis school shooting is how commonplace a story like this has become,” German Lopez writes. But “the prevalence of this problem is not normal, no other country has to deal with it to this extent, and we are not powerless to act.”

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-08-28T01:11:03.732958Z

The problem is Republican legislators and judges who make it easier to have guns. Too bad this column doesn’t say that.

— Harris Levy (@harrislevy.bsky.social) 2025-08-28T01:25:29.814Z

Ridiculous Washington Post headine on an article on the CDC

The headline and text right below it are pathetic. The crisis didn’t fall out of the sky! Trump and Kennedy created it. Yet, neither one is mentioned until you read the article.

Disgraceful work by the Post which used to be much better. My comment on the Post site is shown below the article:

The CDC is falling deeper into crisis. What it means for the nation’s health.

Months of upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have undercut the agency’s work, employees said, and put the future of vaccines into doubt.

My comment:

The CDC is not falling into crisis. Its been pushed into crisis by Trump and Kennedy.

Two DVDs about Gram Parsons

I recently watched Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel (2004) an outstanding documentary about the late musician. It’s very balanced, showing both points of view about the controversy over his body after his death. It has extensive interviews with musicians who worked with him including Chris Hillman and Parsons’ friend Keith Richards, There are many interviews with his family members who don’t gloss over the problems he and his relatives experienced. There is a fine bonus on the DVD where the director recounts how the film was made over a long period of time.

Also on DVD (which I have but haven’t watched yet) is a film of a tribute concert to Parsons from 2004.

Both films are on YouTube – see the links below.

Two films by Thom Andersen

I watched Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) several years ago. It’s an excellent film about movies set in LA.

I just watched Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975) and realized later that both were done by the same director. Muybridge was a 19th-century pioneer in photography of people and animals in motion. The documentary is excellent and has many examples of his work.

Both films are available on discs which is how I watched them.

I haven’t watched it yet but this is Andersen’s 2010 short Get Out of the Car, also about Los Angeles.

Terrible Washington Post opinion column on mail in voting

It’s pro-Trump trash. I still subscribe to the Post but it’s getting hard to justify it.

Why Trump has a point on mail-in voting

My comment on the Post site:

Why is Newsom pushing a “wildly aggressive new gerrymander” in California? It’s in response to a comparable gerrymander in Texas. Republicans started this, not Newsom, but you are too biased to say so. Pennsylvania doesn’t count mail-in votes until election day which could cause public concerns about the results. Why is that? Republicans wouldn’t agree to counting them earlier unless Democrats made concessions.