A murder. – Murray Smalpage
I’ve always been fond of this song, and it started going through my head about a week ago, so here you go. The links above it were provided by Mark Bennett, Mike Siegel, Scott Greenfield, Mistress Matisse, and Cop Crisis (x2), in that order.
- Escher’s diner.
- Sodom and Gomorrah?
- Paging Inspector Javert.
- Good riddance to bad rubbish.
- It’s not usually quite so literal.
- Sometimes even pigs oink out the truth, even if only by accident.
From the Archives
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Even by local news standards, the sound of bootlicking here is deafening.
- “Legalization” features weird, arbitrary laws from obsessive bureaucrats.
- 41% of cops admit to beating their wives. Some don’t stop with beating.
- Meanwhile, the “enlightened” West just watches a genocide in progress.
- I’m sure you amateurs are happy to be censored “for THE CHILDREN™!”
- Bizarre, stilted language used to describe a very ordinary escort service.
- The government keeps trying to hide information in the Backpage case.
- Politicians are gradually starting to realize that whores and clients vote.
- The media flail against a hysteria they’ve worked for decades to create.
- Do I really have to add, “Not because you saw a picture of a Nerf gun”?
- Serial rape is just one of the fringe benefits afforded to Florida screws.
- Much worse than the typical government propaganda such as “DARE”.
- Guess why he was allowed to rack up three victims before they acted?
- Why local laws banning surveillance technology are feel-good bullshit.
- Judge reverses one iota of government persecution of two journalists.
- Don’t teach kids about sex; fill their heads with anti-sex propaganda.
- Even shitty sex work doesn’t really resemble prohibitionist fantasies.
- It might be wise to restrict this to fully-anonymized online accounts.
- Deaths from a black market product? Just expand the black market!
- “Sex trafficking” is imploding in spectacular & entertaining fashion.
- A good general overview of political attacks on Dutch sex workers.
- Yet another example of why sex worker licensing is a terrible idea.
- Top-down government censorship has returned with a vengeance.
- On the collectivist campaign to rob the world of a beneficial plant.
- Without penalties, laws like this are mere political grandstanding.
- Oh look, someone in Hollywood appears to have grown a spine.
- A federal court finally recognizes what should’ve been obvious.
- On the deeply misogynistic basis of modern “consent” dogma.
- A retrospective of my columns for September 2016 and 2017.
- At least this judge didn’t give the stolen money to Ruhama.
- Cops, vegetables, shoggoths, little boys and much more.
- I love seeing prohibitionists hoist with their own petard.
- Cops, tombs, George Harrison, and much more.
- Laws are for the peasantry, not the rulers.
- My two previous columns for Mabon.
- A week of invisible improvements.
- News about the FOSTA challenge.
- Sliding smoothly into autumn.
- How I dress to buy steel.
- Rapist cop of the week.
It is so perfect that I wonder a bit why I don’t know anything else about The Tokens.
Did you hear the filk a year or two ago? “In the West Wing, the self-obsessed wing, the liar tweets tonight”
The Tokens are far down the chain for Mbube, or Lion. Written and recorded in 1939 by Solomon Linda (1909-1962), a record packer at Gallo Recording Company, Johannesbug, SA; recorded by Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds at the Gallo studio. It was in Linda’s own Zulu isicathamiya style. Mbube became a major hit in SA.
Unfortunately Solomon Linda and the Evening Birds didn’t make much from it either in SA, or even world wide after Alan Lomax discovered it in 1950 and passed it to Pete Seeger and The Weavers. Linda’s estate apparently has recovered some royalties since then.
It’s a wonderful song, with soaring falsetto melody and descant soprano countermelodies over very strong basso choir rhythmic lines.
For great detail on its history, and a sample of Linda’s original song, see the wikipedia entry for Solomon Linda.