It’s that time of the week again where I show it’s a whole package, a grab bag that, like pop culture itself does not limit itself to Bella Thorne’s tongue much to the intense disapproval of Google’s algorithmic search rating pigeon-hole OCD and those that inevitably want something different to what is on offer. Either that, or scroll down for Bella’s bottom.
With most, even politically conservative Mitt Romney-favouring Gene Simmons’ KISS turning it down, who can tangerine Trump get to sing—or even hum—his inauguration Trumptune?
Rebecca Ferguson “invited to sing at Trump inauguration ceremony” (thisisnocave.blogspot.co.uk).
“Former X Factor runner-up Rebecca Ferguson says she has been asked to perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony. The star said she would ‘graciously accept’ the invitation to take part in the 20 January event in Washington DC if she can sing Strange Fruit. Strange Fruit is a song that protests against racism, particularly the lynching of African-Americans in the early 20th century. It was recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939 but had previously been written as a poem by teacher Abel Meeropol. The track has ‘huge historical importance’ and used to be ‘blacklisted in the United States for being too controversial’, according to Ferguson.”
Does that suggest that those in the UK without their own Katie Hopkins-esque or Mr “radio show Nazi Alan Partridge” Mirage (thisisnocave.blogspot.co.uk, 6th Jan. 2017) opportune “agenda” have had a change of heart on Trump or just testing those supporters conservative to alt-right positions many feel he has populistly let his rump cover?
And Trump himself? Well on the day all his intelligence chiefs warn him the Russians know more about what Americans had for breakfast and exactly what it is staining the inside of conspiracy dungarees than themself the DJT “ratings machine” was more interested in picking a Twitter fight with Arnold Schwarzenegger, because he backed she-in-the-pantsuit-that-must-not-be-named. Indeed, God bless… God “help” America!
A digest that through the quirky deconstruction of latest stories aims to show that a lot of media “opinion” is actually just “agenda” or “opportunity” and why philosophy is useful in everyday life in defining—for and by yourself—the difference between what ancient Greeks like Plato defined as episteme (knowledge) and doxa (belief), and not just idealistic training to pack Fyffes bananas. Think a bumper bonanza of those cultural, political and just down right hypothetical you don’t really read in Latest Picks.
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