FOR PART ONE (2016) OF THIS RETROSPECTIVE FROM INDEPENDENT VOTER SITE BALLADEER’S BLOG CLICK HERE
A LOOK AT HOW DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN ERODING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. “The totalitarian asses of the 1960s can’t bear the fact that younger people might have opinions that offend THEM as much as their opinions offended their parents’ generation.”
A LOOK AT TRUMP-HATERS, FASCISTS AND BUFFOONS. Their attacks on the de facto Third-Party president.
BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION FOUNDER AND OTHER BLACK BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS PRAISE PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR HIS ECONOMIC MEASURES MAXIMIZING OPPORTUNITIES FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOBS. A reminder that Trump achieved the lowest black unemployment figures ever, but people trapped in the outdated political paradigms of the past failed to recognize the fresh air that the NON-career politician brought to America’s political cesspool.
MOCK HEADLINES: The definitive “Oh no, he didn’t!” edition that infuriated both Republicans and Democrats.
HEROIC LLOYD MARCUS CALLING OUT “MURKY” MUELLER AND HIS FELLOW CORRUPT FUNCTIONARIES – The Martin Luther King Person of Courage spoke his mind in April 2018.
MICHAEL MOORE: FAKE FRIEND TO THE WORKING CLASS. Moore and other financially comfortable Democrats are as callous toward the actual plight of the poor and the working class as the most bloated rich pig Republicans ever were.
FDR AND TRUMP HAD THE SAME KIND OF ENEMIES – Both major parties attack Trump for “filling the minds of the working class rabble with thoughts above their station in life.”
QUOTES TO PONDER: APRIL 4th – Social media robber barons plus callous and complacent fools. Continue reading
Frontierado is celebrated the first Friday of every August, so this year it will be marked on August 4th. This holiday celebrates the myth of the old west, not the grinding reality. Here’s a seasonal post regarding my look at an opera version of the original Django spaghetti western from 1966, which strips the story down to its essentials, with no gold subplot.
DJANGO: AN OPERA – Here at Balladeer’s Blog I love sharing my enthusiasms. My blog posts where I provide contemporary slants to Ancient Greek Comedies to make them more accessible have been big hits over the years, so I’m trying it with operas. A little while back I wrote about how Philip Wylie’s science fiction novel Gladiator could be done as an opera. This time I’m addressing the 1966 original version of the Spaghetti Western titled Django. 
LANGUAGE: Spanish. I’ve resigned myself to the fact that most of my fellow English-speakers find English-language operas to be silly. The prosaic nature of the forced rhymes in a language we are well-versed in does seem to rob opera of its mystique and its grandeur. 
Scene One: The opera would open with a stage version of one of the most iconic visuals from the 1966 film. Our title character, DJANGO, clad in his long blue jacket with his well-worn Union Army uniform underneath it, slowly, wearily drags a coffin behind him as he walks along singing his mournful song. He pulls the coffin via a rope slung across one shoulder. 
FACULTY LOUNGE FASCIST ROUNDUP: March 19th, 2018 
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Republican office holders who are descended from slave owners include some of my frequent targets for bashing over present-day corruption like Mitch McConnell, George W. Bush and Lindsey Graham.
THE MAN FROM PAINTED POST (1917) – Here is another Douglas Fairbanks movie from the years before he became the film world’s premier swashbuckler. Unlike the pure comedy of Fairbanks’ 
BAD MOVIES: There was 
ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION: I reviewed 
COMEDIES: MODERN PARODY HALL OF FAME: The full breakdown 
NEGLECTED GUNSLINGERS: 
