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Mailbag

Subject: Re: The New James McMurtry Album Hey Bob Thanks so much for giving James new record Horses and the Hounds some love.  I am very proud of it. James is more than an artist I have worked with since the beginning, he is a close friend. For me the work is the reward particularly […]

Covid-19

“Covid Deaths Surge Across a Weary America as a Once-Hopeful Summer Ends – Cases are starting to fall in some hard-hit Southern states, but nearly half of Americans are not fully vaccinated, allowing the Delta variant to persist.”: https://nyti.ms/3tgbiU2 So this is how it ends, utter chaos. The same people bitching about the exit from […]

The Texas Laws

It’s the left you have to worry about. For years, we’ve been told to fear the right. They’ve got the guns. They’ve got an echo chamber of Fox News and right wing radio. They even believe in QAnon. You don’t want to anger them because they’re gonna show up at your house, they’re gonna camp […]

Mailbag

Re: Rubberband Man! Bob, The Spinners’ immortal song, “Rubberband Man,” has a special place in the history of Ben & Jerry’s.  On the last day of September in 1978, after surviving our first summer in business, Ben and I hosted a “Fall Down Festival” in front of our original scoop shop in Burlington Vermont.  By far, the […]