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Odds and Sods
A cornucopia of topics, and no real closure. I am getting old. I am as horrified by the debate as anyone. I might have bested my prior record for footnotes. It's been a complicated week.
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Music: Ellen Plays Bass
She nails one of my faves, and is worthy of this post.
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It's not good.
The smart money will pivot to Trump, and the soft "undecided" cohort will as well.
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Bad Dates
We all have had them, this is one that sticks out in my mind. Writing about it is better than watching the debate.
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What the candy-apple fuck: Trump trusted more than Biden on democracy among key swing-state voters
I truly got nothin' on this
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Music: We Want MOORE!
A sleeper album, delivers to us one of the most soulful tunes, played by one of the all-time greatest guitar slingers in the world.
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Migrant Fights? For reals?
Trump goes off script (or did he) and really loses the plot. Alas, the trained barker seals of his Evangelical base further diminish their ethics, and sell their souls to the tangerine hippo
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Music: Friday Night in San Francisco
Three greats, trying to out-do each other, left us with some great recordings. I just wish that HD video existed in 1980...
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MAGA is not well on Substack
A rabbit hole I wish mightily that I didn't dive into. Conspiracists and MAGA have huge overlapping Venn diagram, and they seem to believe that the world is against them when their followers flee
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Music: Kent Nishimura - again
A deep cut of the incomparable Steely Dan, Kent does his magic on one of my favorite tracks, and it is glorious
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HGotW: A Roundup
It is a two-fer this week! We have a governor who thumbs his nose at past precedent (and will likely get away with his egregious behavior) and a candidate for governor who is shockingly awful
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Music: Mario Parga
A somewhat reclusive master demonstrates how it is done.