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them at a distance the film opens with the boys playing one of their greatest early hits she loves you to a crowd of screaming fans mostly girls that is a song guaranteed to give me a shot of youthful exuberance whenever i listen to it on youtube it has an unusual twist for a love song giving a hint of the complexities that the group will prove capable of later on it s the usual puppy love lament but spoken by a third party to urge a friend with perhaps a bit of understated jealousy to pursue the girl who loves him you know you should be glad this unselfish friend admonishes the documentary then cuts to scenes of the beatles arrival in america in 1964 and their first encounters with a horde of press they throw out continuous zingers that demonstrate their unique liverpudlian wit but their most striking reaction is amazement at their success they simply can t belive the ruckus they re causing at new york s jfk airport and a few days later in washington dc scenes of the frantic touring years 1963 1966 are interspersed with glimpses of world events during that time jfk s assassination civil rights marches nuclear testing as time goes on the musicians seem to get jaded along with the rest of us the songs of rubber soul and revolver get more complicated and less conducive to live performance the tours ended after 1966 which had been a particularly brutal stretch they had faced bible belt anger in the us after lennon gave the infamous magazine interview in which he equated the beatles popularity with that of jesus another mishap occurred in the philippines where they inadvertently stood up the first lady imelda marcos and nearly got pummeled while trying to leave the country they were lucky to get out of that tour alive it was the end of even make believe innocence they began to take up independent projects and pursue new relationships and then came the cataclysm or the beginnings of one yoko ono entered the scene splitting the historic john lennon in half the pre yoko lennon and post yoko lennon are almost two different people h e met her at a london art gallery in 1966 where she was putting on an exhibit of what was called concept art it s not the kind of art you can hang on a wall you have to strive to understand it sometimes by participating in it it dawned on john heretofore a first class misogynist that a woman could be as smart and creative as he was after a while he decided that life with his comparatively conventional wife and son in a london suburb was too humdrum once yoko wormed her way into the recording studio the love besotted john convinced himself that he was bored with the band as well it s perhaps not fair to blame yoko entirely for the breakup that was set in motion the boys in the band were ready to grow up in their own ways she was more a symbol of that growth than the cause but something was lost for us fans lennon took on a stringy haired gaunt look possibly the result of the new pair exploring heroin together eventually they moved to new york where yoko had launched her early artistic career and involved themselves in far left politics thankfully that phase didn t last long not only did john s rather naïve activism threaten to get him deported but the songs he produced as political screeds were easily the weakest of his career a few years later after a separation john and yoko got back together produced a son and appeared to retire from the music business yoko looked after the family investments while john became a self declared househusband that was something of a myth contradicted by many other sources but this new persona served to take the pressure off him to produce new music until he was ready the comeback album he and yoko released in 1980 double fantasy was later denounced as something of a fraud by a radio interviewer who helped them promote it he confessed to feeling duped when he realized their renewed love story was not as idyllic as they claimed it was and then came the assassination which yoko failed to prevent despite the army of mystics that she had hired to serve as her advisors have the beatles aged well their music lives forever on youtube for us baby boomers to relive and younger generations to embrace paul and ringo the surviving members are rocking and rolling to this day paul at almost 84 took the brave step of performing live on the recent season finale of saturday night live apart from a little trouble with the high notes he did fine there never was a true reunion of the group after 1969 although rumors were always flying in recent years a couple of new songs were manufactured by technology based on tapes that john left behind but that doesn t reduce my nostalgia for the days when the group was still together in the flesh making unforgettable music and i don t mind admitting i m mostly nostalgic for the pre yoko john lgould171784 rock and roll self publishing uncategorized 2 comments june 18 2026 4 minutes the post and me who is this 62 year old bald guy named jeff bezos and what gives him the right to demolish my newspaper okay i ll admit that my indignation is fairly comical it s his paper not mine the most relevant fact about him is that he is estimated to be worth around 255 5 billion certainly he can afford to buy a newspaper and do whatever he likes with it he has owned a lot of other nifty things too like the retail giant amazon the spaceflight company blue origin which ignites spectacular explosions now and then and a promoter of artificial intelligence called project prometheus still i maintain that the washington post contributed a lot to my political and historical understanding while i was growing up and has continued to do so well into my old age when i was a kid my staunchly conservative parents subscribed to the evening star the other major washington newspaper at some point perhaps sensing that the star was dying they switched to the post they recognized quality when they saw it even when they disagreed with the paper s political slant doesn t my decades long loyalty and theirs give me a small stake in its future a billionaire of course can get away with full scale demolition as demonstrated all over my home city by our marauding president but there is something even more destructive in taking an axe to a venerable institution like the post and amputating huge parts of it several sections including book reviews and the sunday magazine have been consolidated or eliminated altogether from the print version bezos has also threatened to phase out the sports section probably the most popular feature donald graham the previous publisher has protested that sports is what he turns to first when he gets his paper and he is not alone for now sports in print still survives although bezos did fire several of the best sportswriters in the business he generously allowed a few of them who were already in milan to cover the 2026 winter olympics to continue doing so although just barely we can only hope there are enough reasonable voices left to convince him that deep sixing sports altogether would be a horrible idea no matter how much money it would save after purchasing the paper in 2013 bezos was a fairly hands off owner until donald trump s second inauguration which he ominously attended it was around then that he suddenly decided the paper should be a money maker like his other businesses that strategy required a consolidation process and more importantly not upsetting trump too much the paper s content began to diminish and hands off the wacko president became the standing order on the opinions page leading to the departure of several respected editorial writers besides that it s not unusual these days to come across startling proofreading errors which rarely happened before most of the editors were let go all in all it s definitely not the woodward and bernstein model of old the idea of a public trust is evidently lost on someone with only dollar signs in his eyes as many good people departed subscribers also began leaving in droves doesn t this bother the billionaire at all i m not quite ready to join that exodus i only get the print version on sundays and make do with the digital news the rest of the week thankfully the digital post retains a few features that have been axed from the print version including some book reviews i still look forward to the traditional sunday morning sit down over coffee and breakfast with a tangible paper before me i get pretty anxious when the paper is late materializing on my front lawn that is what i missed most during my recent month long hospital and rehab stint for a fractured hip coming home to several weeks of collected papers was like a smorgasbord is the wreckage as bad as everyone feared there are glimmers here and there of the old courage despite restrictions on what subjects can be covered on the opinion pages it seems that reliably conservative voices like kathleen parker and george will are allowed to get away with occasional trump put downs parker recently referred to don trump as if he were don corleone while will has described trump s intellect as bereft of information disorderly and easily swayed many of us have our fingers crossed that the news part of the operation will continue to be free of constrictions thankfully we are still able to read about trump s continuing election delusions and other statements he makes without evidence such as declaring that the iran war and the economy are going just great so we can say that journalism in the nation s capital is holding on for now lgould171784 american politics journalism self publishing uncategorized 6 comments june 10 2026 3 minutes waiting for the bubble to burst whatever i think of donald trump on any given day ranging from irritation to boiling anger i must admit that the man has a certain mystical talent he may be an idiot but he s also a genius in a way there has to be something magical about a man who gets away with absolutely every outrageous thing he says and does the more egregious he gets the more devoted his followers become his utter shamelessness is his shield he has so many stunning qualities stupidity childishness corruption incompetence hypocrisy dishonesty immorality that are regarded as virtues by his crowd of worshipers he has even proven he can go to war for no particular reason without losing significant numbers the trump devotees being passionate and loud wield power out of proportion to their numbers enough to intimidate many lawmakers and pundits who surely know better what will it take for those with a modicum of critical thinking ability to wake up and end this madness i guess the real question is whether there is anything trump can do that might burst the magic bubble at last can there possibly be a last straw a bridge too far no criminal can hide forever even jesse james and al capone were finally stopped one through double crossing and the other through government ingenuity is it possible for the worst american president in history to go too far now there appears to be a slush fund scandal shades of nixon who famously had one of those to cover his watergate expenses at least the current version is enough of a scandal to get some members of his own party roiled especially in the senate it seems trump sued the irs because a contractor released tax returns filed by himself family members and his company if you ask me it was high time the public knew how little he and his family paid compared to the rest of us but the disclosure embarrassed his highness so he extracted 1 776 billion a cutesy patriotic number from the already beleaguered agency then he announced his intention to use this money dubbed the anti weaponization fund to reward some of his most ardent supporters especially those attacked by the evil corrupt biden adminstration to those capable of understanding irony this is really rich it s probably the most openly corrupt thing he s ever done and that s really saying something if he succeeds with this scheme trump will probably use some of the money to reward the january 6 2021 marauders that with his goading and encouragement attacked the seat of government the plan is ingenious and shameless but how smart is it it will remind everyone of the january 6 riot and trump s role in it which is a major reason why he belongs in prison himself and he will be fighting some aroused members of the police which won t be popular with conservatives incidentally it may not have been the smartest move to torpedo the careers of two prominent senate republicans john cornyn of texas and thomas massie of kentucky through primary endorsements of more extreme candidates if those two find their backbones during the time they have left in office it might encourage others to find theirs and if the bubble finally bursts as a result won t that be a lovely sight lgould171784 american politics federal government self publishing uncategorized 6 comments may 31 2026 2 minutes a billionaire family s civil war all powerful media mogul rupert murdoch has six children spread among the first three of his five wives he is a billionaire of long standing he is also 95 years old and those kids of his have been embroiled in endless arguments and legal maneuverings to determine which of them will take charge of his vast empire once he dies you would think there is enough of everything both money and power to satisfy all of them but that isn t necessarily the case because this fight isn t primarily about love or filial closeness it s about politics lachlan the firstborn son shares his father s conservative views the other children who have had voting power in the firm prue liz and james have tried for years with little success to promote a more progressive outlook throughout their father s media assets gabriel sherman s 2025 expose the bonfire of the murdochs vividly describes this political schism the kind of thing that divides many families these days although rarely with such high stakes i found this book fascinating because it isn t just a narrative that details all the risky business deals rupert undertook starting in his native australia to build his worldwide media empire it is also a tale of the personalities involved in what became an endless soap opera rupert s properties especially fox news the wall street journal and a farflung array of tabloids are beacons of the right wing but there have been times according to james when rupert has betrayed his doubts about trumpism rupert was evidently appalled at trump s refusal to concede the 2020 election during the january 6 riot he reportedly tried to contact trump and implore him to put a stop to it on a few other occasions james has overheard rupert betray doubts about the misinformation his outlets spew you don t really believe this shit do you he once accused him could it be that the old man s so called political convictions are all about making money sure it could i wonder 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