Historian Heather Cox Richardson on Trump’s Muslim Ban: „It’s a Shock Event“

Heather Cox Richardson: If people realize they are being played, though, they can reach across old lines and reorganize to challenge the leaders who are pulling the strings. This was Lincoln’s strategy when he joined together Whigs, Democrats, Free-Soilers, anti-Nebraska voters, and nativists into the new Republican Party to stand against the Slave Power. Five years before, such a coalition would have been unimaginable. Members of those groups agreed on very little other than that they wanted all Americans to have equal economic opportunity. Once they began to work together to promote a fair economic system, though, they found much common ground. They ended up rededicating the nation to a “government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

the way of improvement leads home

Heather Cox Richardson of Boston College is one of my favorite historians.  I highly recommend her most recent book To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party. 

Today Richardson gave me permission to publish a piece she recently posted to her Facebook page.

Richardson is probably right in assuming that Steve Bannon is behind Trump’s recent Executive Order on Muslim refugees.  She describes what Bannon is doing as a „shock event.“ This is an attempt to throw the country into confusion and chaos so that the administration can present itself as the only entity capable of restoring order.

Richardson explains:

What Bannon is doing, most dramatically with last night’s ban on immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries– is creating what is known as a „shock event.“ Such an event is unexpected and confusing and throws a society into chaos. People scramble to react to the event, usually…

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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival: Sei heute live dabei!

Leider stellte ich gestern erst zu spät fest, dass der US-Rolling Stone Live-Streams vom großartigen New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival anbietet. Es geht am heutigen Sonntag (8. Mai 2011) zu Ende – es gibt also noch eine Nacht lang Gelegenheit, Ausschnitte zu erleben.

Das Festival war lange Zeit mein Lieblings-Musik-Event – ich hatte das Glück, es ab Mitte der ‘80er siebenmal hintereinander komplett zu erleben.

Jack Bauer in Drag

Dank OnlineTvRecorder.com kann ich endlich wieder meine Lieblings-Talkshow sehen: David Lettermans „Late Show“ auf CBS. Heute erlebte ich beim „Abarbeiten“ älterer Folgen einen wunderbaren Auftritt von Kiefer Sutherland in einem hässlichen Kleid. Aber schaut selbst:

My Favorite Dr. John Encounter

A long-forgotten video posted by BLIP.fm member digitalfreestyleentertainment just reminded me of my favorite Dr. John anecdote.

Remembering Willy DeVille

I’m currently revisiting some of my favorite Willy DeVille songs – which remind me of a TV shoot I did with him in New Orleans in 1992, on the event of the German release of his album “Backstreets of Desire” (for the magazine “Das! Das Abendstudio” on the Northern German TV channel NDR). He had moved to the French Quarter around 1990 and recorded the album in the Big Easy (just like 1990’s “Victory Mixture”).

On the night before the shoot, I visited him and his wife Lisa at their home in the Quarter. Instead of doing the usual interview about the album, he suggested that we shoot him doing a tour of his favorite spots in New Orleans.

John Cleese vs. Sarah Palin

Dank des Tweet von Don bin ich auf das wunderbare John-Cleese-Video zum Thema Sarah Palin aufmerksam geworden:

Bekenntnisse eines Chocolate-Chip-Cookie-Junkies

Hamburg – Cafes – Coffee Shops

Warnung: Wer sich nicht die (Kaffee-)Bohne für Kekse interessiert, sollte sofort aufhören, diesen Beitrag zu lesen. Oder zumindest am Ende nicht behaupten, ich hätte ihn/sie nicht gewarnt. ;-)

Ich sah gerade, dass ich in einem früheren Beitrag über die „Balzac Coffee“-Filiale in der Steinstraße den Mangel an Chocolate Chip Cookies beklagte.

In der Colonnaden-Filiale wurde ich in der vergangenen Woche fündig. Und nicht nur das: Ich erlebte dort die beste CCC-Variante, die ich bisher in der Hamburger Innenstadt genießen durfte: Zusätzlich zu den Chocolate Chips enthielt der Cookie auch noch Banane (In Form von Bananenlikör? Bin mir nicht sicher.) und Walnuss.