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Look The Bulwark: Your favorite Dems are unelectable in national elections, and you should stop fawning over them.
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Gee, so much for America First and no more wars. This will not go well.
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The latest round of mind boggling investment announcements around AI is really bonkers. This is round-tripping not unlike what brought Enron down, but on steroids. It is feeling like late-stage bubble behavior and FOMO in tech-bro land.
Music
A bad day at work, and some uplifting music to counter. Here's Rush, playing a medley of their most recognizable riffs.
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Independent Media is important. But does it replace the legacy media? No. It is splintering attention, and continuing the ideological siloing. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Music
A young Japanese lady manhandles her axe in a tribute medley to honor one Eddie van Halen. A delightful diversion!
Politics
Too damn much going on this week, but some mixed topics.
Politics
Not to slag on Agriculture (yes, I am gonna), but they have a large hand in the inconsistencies in US immigration policies and play both sides. Don't pity those fuckers.
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It was a wild week of news. A small subset of what triggered my fuckery threshold...
Music
Kids these days have it so much better than when I was coming up. The era of digital, modelers and meticulous crafting by dedicated people makes getting great tone trivial.
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Farmers knew what they were voting for, and they expected a round of bailouts, and some backtracking by Trump. But so far, they are boned. Good.
The blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut. David Frum, Canadian scold does have a point.
The fucking Washington Post speaks out of both sides of their mouth, whinging about the Jimmy Kimmel event, but just last wek they fired Karen Attiah for rather tame social media posts. Hypocrisy, they name is Washington Post
Surf music, played by an all women group? And they slay? SIGN me up!
Al Di Meola, doing what he does with his inimitable style and flair. Joined by stellar musicians from the Valencia campus of Berklee, this was a magical performance.
Gee farmers who voted for Trump are stuck with a soybean crop that they can't sell and are facing ruin. And water is wet!
My latest acquisition is a Strandberg headless guitar, with the Endur neck, designed to be ergonomically correct. The fit, finish, and polish of this instrument is in no way budget.
Ezra Klein, The NY Times' token progressive once again licks his finger and reads the winds wrong.
It's been a funky week, and by funky, I mean not worn gym-socks odor funky. From the release of the Epstein 50th birthday book with so much cringe in it (and Trumpworld's ludicrous attempt to memory-hole it... I have it in two fucking places beyotches), to
Hang on Baby Jesus, it's gon' get bumpy
Human skin-tag RFK Junior recently was flensed on the stand at the Senate, but the Behind the Bastards podcast really dove deep last year before the election.
The price of US made guitars is bonkers, but the imports, once a sad parody, are now top tier in quality and performance.