Archive for March 16th, 2023

Bagatelle (#79)

Thursday, March 16th, 2023

Shot:

It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money. Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter’d your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!

–Oliver Cromwell, Speech on the dissolution of the Rump of the Long Parliament, 20 April 1653

Chaser:

“You shut down our schools, you shut down the churches, you shut down the businesses,” Kelly railed, according to a video posted by Forbes.
“You did the one thing that I thought could never happen,” he said. “As someone who was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, I never thought in my life that I would ever see the city of Chicago brought down so low as you have managed to bring it down.
“Shame on you,” Kelly said. “That is a legacy that you are going to have to carry.”

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Obit watch: March 16, 2023.

Thursday, March 16th, 2023

Jim Gordon passed away yesterday. He was 77.

Mr. Gordon was a drummer who worked with both Eric Clapton and George Harrison. He co-wrote “Layla” with Clapton.

He also had mental problems. On June 3, 1983, he used a hammer and knife to kill his mother. He’d been in prison ever since. After the killing, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, but was still convicted criminally and sentenced to 16 to life in prison. He was turned down for parole ten times.

Bobby Caldwell, R&B guy. (“What You Won’t Do for Love”).

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