[Kzyxtalk] Please state the nature of the political atrocity.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Please state the nature of the political atrocity.

Marco here. Here's the recording of Friday night's (9pm PST, 2026-02-27) 
eight-hour-long Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show on KNYO.org, on 
107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and also, for the first three hours, on 
89.3fm KAKX Mendocino, ready for you to re-enjoy in whole or in part:
https://memo-of-the-air.s3.amazonaws.com/KNYO_0685_MOTA_2026-02-27.mp3

Coming shows can feature your own story or dream or poem or essay or 
kvetch or announcement. Just email it to me. Or send me a link to your 
writing project and I'll take it from there and read it on the air. 
That's all I'm here for.

Besides all that, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a 
fresh batch of dozens of links to not-necessarily radio-useful but 
worthwhile items I set aside for you while gathering the show together, 
such as:

A.I. made this. It has a candy-like aspect. I like that the machine 
intelligence imagines that bus seats are stuffed with feathers, and that 
a 95-pound woman with limbs like pencils can be grabbed by the wrists by 
a fierce 275-pound muscleman but toss him across a barn by shrugging her 
shoulders. Wouldn't that be nice. The naturally evolved wetware A.I. 
that generates my dreams often in my youth provided me with the pleasure 
of picking up an attacker by an arm or by both feet in one hand and 
slamming him against the walls and the floor, breaking him up until he 
became like a pathetic sock full of bloody pennies. There was a funny 
shock of recognition when I saw The Hulk do this to Loki in The 
Avengers. Oh, I thought, lots of other people must dream of that too.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Qyk3Dfe5xgk

This is a real place in the real world. It's 142 feet from the floor to 
the highest point inside the top. It's made of stone, oak wood painted 
to look like stone, and it's waterproofed outside with sheets of lead. 
It was imagined and designed by a man appropriately named Alan and 
finished by the year 1322, /seven hundred years ago/. At that time in 
North Africa and Spain scholars were advancing astronomy, medicine and 
mathematics. Madrasas and observatories were active from Cairo to 
Samarkand. Mongols had sophisticated astronomy and had developed an 
accurate past and future calendar of events on Earth and in the sky. It 
was the golden age of Chinese theater. Trade networks linked the Pacific 
to the Mediterranean. Look up the Silk Road. Sea trade connected East 
Africa, Arabia, India, and Southeast Asia. Cultures traded paper, 
gunpowder, navigational tools, yadda yadda. In India around that time 
they had cataract surgery.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUTXfqzjHf8/

This unreinforced concrete dome was built almost 2,000 years ago and 
it's still there, still strong and safe. Modern concrete structures made 
sixty years ago are already crumbling.
https://www.futilitycloset.com/2026/02/23/tops/

And Mandolin Orange - Boots of Spanish Leather.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOHkyZ62jjQ

Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org, https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com