Thursday, November 20, 2025

House gets back to work, or not ...

The U.S. House is back in session after a multi-week hiatus, but its agenda has been quickly overtaken by a sudden flurry of censures, reprimands and the investigation of members, leaving little bandwidth for legislating.

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... With few bills to consider -- and no quick fix for the problem of skyrocketing health insurance premiums -- the House has instead devoted time to lawmakers' demands to punish each other for their personal and political transgressions in showy spectacles on and off the chamber floor. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:36 AM

Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs (1974)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

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...
The sun don't shine
The moon don't move the tides
To wash me clean

Sun don't shine
The moon don't move the tides
To wash me clean

Why so unforgiving and why so cold?
Been a long time crossing bridge of sighs

Cold wind blows
The Gods look down in anger
On this poor child
...



#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:42 AM

fwiw ...

Bridge of Sighs
en.wikipedia.org

...The Bridge of Sighs (Italian: Ponte dei Sospiri, Venetian: Ponte de i Sospiri) is a bridge in Venice, Italy. The enclosed bridge is made of white limestone, has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison (Prigioni Nuove) to the interrogation rooms in the Doge's Palace. It was designed by Antonio Contin, whose uncle Antonio da Ponte designed the Rialto Bridge. It was built in 1600.[1]

Etymology

The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment.

The bridge's English name was bestowed by Lord Byron in the 19th century as a translation from the Italian "Ponte dei sospiri",[2][3] from the suggestion that prisoners would sigh at their final view of beautiful Venice through the window before being taken down to their cells.[4][5] ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:45 AM

Robin Trower, formerly of the band Procol Harum.



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-20 12:48 AM

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