Anthony Weiner has declared that he is running for Mayor of New York. You’ll no doubt remember him. He’s the former Congressman who sent compromising photos of himself via text message, then lied about what he had done and kept stringing out the lie, to an increasingly skepticism, until finally he was forced to admit the truth and resign.
He says he’s learned his lesson, and he wants to get back into the fray and fight for the people of New York. But why would any voter want to pull the lever for a politician who showed such contempt for voters that he stuck to obvious falsehoods until it no longer become possible? Who would believe him?
The New York Daily News story linked above says that Weiner may be a formidable candidate, because he has lots of money left over from his campaign war chest when he resigned from Congress. I refuse to believe that money is going to cause voters to forget that this is the same guy who was serving in an important office only two years ago when he decided that lying to the electorate was in his best interest. I hope I’m not wrong.
As far as Weiner himself goes, I think his decision to run for Mayor is pathetic. If he had any class, he would retreat to a private life — but the pathetic thing is that he can’t. Whether it is because he has nothing else that he really can do, or because he craves the limelight, or because he has a war chest and figures he may as well spend it, Weiner can’t resist opening himself and his wife up to intense ridicule. He deserves it, but his wife doesn’t. If he had any class and decency, he would recognize that. That he apparently doesn’t recognize it also says something important about why this guy should never be the Mayor of a major American city.
When I think of The Doors, I think of Jim Morrison’s deep, throaty vocals — but I think equally of Ray Manzarek’s keyboards. Both of those elements made The Doors musically unique, and both were equally important. Mazarek’s deft chops on the keyboard helped to burn countless Doors’ songs into the brain synapses, where they will remain forever and can be hauled out and remembered, note by note. Most of The Doors’ great songs had a great keyboard riff in their somewhere, but my all-time favorite is Riders On The Storm. For us wannabe musicians, who don’t know anything about those black and white keys, it’s one of the great air piano songs ever. I’ve “played” that extended keyboard solo on desktops, tabletops, car dashboards, and the air above the walkway around the Yantis Loop, always with a smile on my face and those lilting notes lifting my heart. I’ve put a YouTube video of Riders on the Storm below, and it still sounds fantastic and absolutely fresh.
Yesterday was one of those days in the Oklahoma City region
There were several weather-related alerts, including the “alert” that there is a dense fog advisory for New Albany this morning. (Thanks, but I figured that out when I looked out the window this morning and saw the streetlights shrouded in mist.) There were some ESPN app “alerts” about the results of NBA games. (Thanks, but I have no interest in the NBA). I think there was a news “alert,” too, mixed in with the rest, but it vanished when I swiped the screen to log in.
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Some people in the IRS decided that groups with “tea party” and “patriot” in their names should be given additional scrutiny, to see whether they were acting in ways inconsistent with their tax-exempt status. About 300 groups received the scrutiny. The IRS says that low-level employees were responsible and that, when more senior officials learned about it months later, the practice was stopped. However, it now appears that 
The Ohioana Book Festival is free, easy to reach, and open to the public. Parking is free, too.
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The three women — Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight — apparently were held captive for years in a house on Cleveland’s near West Side. 
Forty-three years later, it remains a mystery to me how anyone, Guardsman or officer or politician, could ever have thought that American soldiers should fire live ammunition into a crowd of protesting students. It is one of the enduring questions about the shooting that, I think, will never be satisfactorily answered. 
Like every American, I’m angered and sickened by the terrorist actions of the Tsarnaev brothers, and I can understand the impulse to deny a final resting place on American soil to someone who cruelly and intentionally killed and injured innocents . . . but I say let Tsarnaev be buried. A controversy about his remains is just a distraction from the real issues raised by the Tsarnaev brothers and the Boston Marathon bombing — issues like whether they should have been permitted to come to America in the first place, how they came to be radicalized and whether there are steps that can prevent others from becoming similarly radicalized, 
Anthropologists have uncovered strong evidence of cannibalism among the Jamestown settlers
