October 3, 2025

When one of my sisters informed me that Routledge "really is a really good singer in real life"

I said, "You wasted your breath telling me that -- you HAVE to be a really good singer to sing as BADLY as she does as WELL as she does!"




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September 29, 2025

Perhaps Trump has Portland OREGON confused with Portland MAINE

or Portland CONNECTICUT or Portland INDIANA or Portland KENTUCKY or Portland MICHIGAN or Portland TENNESSEE or Portland TEXAS...if not POLAND in EUROPE.


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June 15, 2025

And to top it off, the blow was dealt to MAGA by Trump himself

two days before:



His 180-degree turn away from the anti-nonwhite immigrant mandate upon which he has stood since 2016 saves his corporatist overlords the cost of wrecking their profit margins by having to replace immigrant indentured servitude with American citizens expecting a living wage and benefits.

It's no secret that MAGA is a sub-minority political group and always have been, complete with Trump losing the popular vote three times in a row: you can't "rebuke" what was never really there to begin with.


Rocknation

June 15, 2025

Well, duh dot com, President DuhDon!

He was ordered to stop going after farm/hotel/leisure industry immigrant workers by farm/hotel/leisure industry corporatist management (and Trump donors) because having such employees to underpay and/or otherwise exploit is what boosts their profits.



Thanks to a lack of the "common sense" he mentions in his closing sentence, Trump turned both his military birthday parade and the "No Faux King Way" protests into anticlimaxes: June 12, 2025 is when he actually began the end of his presidency.




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May 23, 2025

Bruce made the comments, not the band. And as Mr. Fleming wrote in his closing sentence

it's the customers' call to make, not the venue's.

People who do not wish to see the band on account of something that BRUCE said -- not THEM -- should not be deprived of the right to take their business elsewhere (though venue owners should keep in mind that bands can take their business elsewhere, too). More to the point, if Riv's owner REALLY hated Bruce Springsteen's hating Trump so much, why did he hire the band in the first place?

He blames and punishes the band for what Bruce said, but was willing to take the money of any CUSTOMER who hates Trump but likes Bruce? That's not a moral patriotic stand, that's a hypocritical grifting double standard -- I mean, he MUST have been aware of how much Bruce "liked" New Jersey governor Chris Christie!

Well, the band not only got a replacement gig for that night, they will be sharing the bill with a band who have played at Riv's at least twice!


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January 22, 2025

If Trump's problem is that "Gulf Of Mexico" seems to exclude the USA

then calling it the Gulf of NORTH America is the only solution: it shares borders with the North American nations of the USA, Mexico, and Cuba.

More to the point, the Gulf of Mexico has never excluded the USA or Cuba: the Gulf is actually named after a region and civilization that existed centuries before the nation of Mexico did.

So it's actually a moot issue -- and besides, wouldn't it go against Trump's anti-DEI stance?


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January 13, 2025

I avoided a serious accident because I had time to see a Hummer swerving across the median

and heading straight toward me, and had time to ask myself, "Should I hit the gas or swerve?" Decided on doing the former because I was in the right-hand lane and had no traffic in front of me. With my eyes focused straight ahead, I heard rather then felt the Hummer hit me -- thankfully nowhere near hard enough to knock me off course.

The car's driver-side tail light was my only casualty (someone was taken to the hospital by helicopter). I chided myself for not having driven a little faster because it would have allowed me to emerge completely unscathed, but only until I realized that I had been on an overpass: If the Hummer had missed me completely, it could have gone through or over the railing and down to the road below.


Rocknation

January 13, 2025

Creating something worthwhile isn't SUPPOSED to be "fun"

Well, yeah, duh dot com -- that's why it's CALLED "work."

To paraphrase the writer Dorothy Parker, "I hate PUTTING IN what it takes to create, but I love what COMES OUT of it." Whether you're trying to come up with a song, a photo, a photo book, a cake, a touchdown, a cost/benefit analysis, world peace, plumbing that no longer leaks, an illegal drug, or a tire rotation, ANYTHING you aim to create as well as possible requires work. It's the END PRODUCT for which you get to take pride, generate respect, and possibly earn money -- the destination, not the journey!




And with all due respect to the music industry's reaction to AI music, shouldn't the actual music creators get an equal slice of the pie?

IS it merely a coincidence that AI can also stand for anti-intellectualism?



Rocknation

December 16, 2024

That's definite now -- DuhDon DID get LESS than 50% of the popular vote?

MORE people voted AGAINST DuhDon than FOR him? Then woot woot woot and happy trifecta -- that means we can JOIN him in bragging of his LOSING the popular vote THREE TIMES in a row!!!


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October 28, 2024

Works for me

Well, duh dot com -- especially since I called this shot back in December (with an assist from Thomas Michael Crooks back in July).

With a week left, it is now time to forget the polls and get TO the polls...DON'T wait if you don't have to...VOTE if you haven't already!!!


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