Kroger's lawsuit is next to challenge the concept of federal regulation
John Roberts is salivating.
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What has worked to fight climate change? Policies where someone pays for polluting, study finds
Well, of course. Make pollution and climate change a very, very expensive cost of doing business, and we're on the way to a solution.
Problem is, the big companies that are doing all
the damage also own the lawmakers and courts. So, checkmate, the world burns.
This one especially pisses me off.
The Attorney General is a right-wingnut (he used to be a pastor), so the petition-pushers knew he'd be trouble. They contacted his office all along the way, for guidance on the rules, and did everything they were told to do. But the AG's office 'forgot' to mention one tiny technicality, and that's enough to have the ballot measure shit-canned.
DeSantis administration plans to build golf courses at Florida state parks
Scientists trained a lump of goo to play Pong
How rude. I have a name, you know.
Trump will host January 6 Awards Gala, honoring insurrectionists
California becomes first state to partner with tech firms to pay for journalism
10-year-old pointed a finger gun, so the principal expelled him for a year
Trump-appointed federal judge throws out machine gun possession charge, cites Second Amendment
Oklahoma revokes license of teacher who showed students how to find banned books
Summer Boismier is obviously a great teacher, but just as obviously, she had to know this would happen. Hope she's planning a political run.
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"Traditional" values will protect Russia from Mpox outbreak, top health official says
Dead French actor's family refuses his dying request to be buried with his (living) pet dog
Climate emergency:
• Global warming of 1.6C now best case scenario, new research shows
• Brazilians "struggling to breathe" as Amazon burns
• International report confirms record-high global temperatures, greenhouse gases in 2023
• Invasive insect could accelerate release of climate pollution from forests
• Climate change is making it too hot for bumblebees to adapt, threatening their existence
• "Heat engine" fueled by climate crisis bringing blast of summer weather to Australian winter
... but there's money to be made, so la di da, la di da.
The Lord works in mysterious ways:
• Christian teacher teaches Christianity as 'world history' in public school
• Assistant pastor convicted in $800,000 investment scheme gets 27 months in prison
• Baltimore man alleges sex abuse by St. Mary’'s seminarian: "He was like, untouchable"
Bad guys wear badges:
• New Orleans ordered to pay $1-million to teen who was sexually assaulted by cop
• Judge throws out major felony charges against police in Breonna Taylor killing
• Fired Louisiana deputy is arrested, accused of possessing child pornography
• Kentucky cop arrested, accused of pocketing $4K from suspect he was arresting
⚰️ DEAD PEOPLE ⚰️
Peter Dykstra
journalist
Mike Lynch
billionaire
Nell McCafferty
activist
Leslie Noble
football player
Chester Owens
activist
Paul Pressler
conservative pedophile
Gomez Regalado
football player
Robert James Sam
in county jail
Jayvion Taylor
football player
Semaj Wilkins
football player
8/24/2024
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I've not posted a top 5 rocklist for a few weeks, so it's time. And since the last movie I saw in a theater cost three dollars and sold out the house, I'm not very current on my post-millennial movie knowledge and never was knowledgeable on the pre films. If I'm going to contribute anything useful out here it's going to be about music or literature.
ReplyDeleteThe rock era started in the early 1950s when "Secular Gospel" and Rockabilly took advantage of the introduction of the 45 rpm record format and players as a conveyor of three minute "singles" first heard on post-war revolutionary AM pop radios installed in cars and, after the invention and explosion of the transistor, everywhere. By the end of the 50s, the more capacious 33 1/3 Long Play record aggregated songs onto albums, added a few songs which had failed to get AM radio play, and began a demand for longer versions of songs on FM radios which were just beginning to be installed in automobiles and in the living room consoles of the parents of the "45" adolescents.
Bands took very different approaches to filling the additional time albums provided. The longer and more numerous the material the band came up with, the more they'd have to choose with when going on the road to perform. In fact, this increase in material changed the way bands toured. The Beach Boys' lead singer, Brian Wilson, stopped touring with the band entirely and spent full time recording in Los Angeles. When the rest of The Beach Beach Boys returned from one of their many extensive and exhausting tours, Brian Wilson was ready with layered percussion, a nice layering of horns, and a layer of instrumental solos, to get the touring band into the studio. The Monkees, particularly for their first several albums didn't write songs and didn't play on the songs, so they'd come back to LA to put the vocals on top of the other recorded material, and start their next tour.
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Testing 1 2 3. Google isn't letting me post the only-slightly longer comment I've written. Will it let me post this?
DeleteOK, fifth or sixth try. I'm not allowed to post an entire TWO-PARAGRAPH reply, so I'll try breaking it in half. Here's paragraph one: If at first second and third you don't succeed, try try try again, so here goes:
DeleteEnjoyed all five, and the accompanying comments, and the greatest of these is "Peg." Steely Dan ought to be higher in the all-time charts than they seem to be.
And here's paragraph two, which must have been the problem: As I read, Michael McDonald's "I Keep Forgetting" briefly flashed across my ears, a pop song I abhorred for no rational reason, but fervently and forever. Fortunately, Google reassures me that "I Keep Forgetting" was a solo hit, after McDonald was no longer with Steely Dan.
DeleteI hope there isn’t any American over 30 who thinks that a real third party is possible in this country. At most, you could have a party disappear and reappear with a new name, like the Whig/Republican rebranding. There will only ever be one party with two branches. The Evil Party and the Stupid Party. Sometimes they get together and do something that is both evil and stupid. This is called “bipartisanship.”
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DeleteFresh ideas and actual improvement are forever-blockaded by the two-party system.
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