Spotify playlist: https://shorturl.at/neBm0 1 The Beach Boys were selling the California Dream. And I bought it hook, line and sinker. Today California is a pejorative. The whipping boy of the right. And many on the left too. They have contempt for the Golden State, primarily because living here is SO F*CKING GOOD! Sure, real estate […]

RE: The Stax Documentary In your review of the Stax documentary you mentioned Stax being “screwed by Jerry Wexler” such that “Atlantic ends up with all the Masters.” However, technically, the latter statement is incorrect. When Jim Stewart made the deal with Jerry Wexler, Stax (now Concord) actually retained ownership of the Masters. But that was because the deal was […]

“Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again”: https://shorturl.at/ICCaY This is a riveting read. But I didn’t learn much. Regarding the facts. But aging and personalities? Maybe it’s my personality, always looking for the negative in myself. Seeing where I falter. This makes me strive to be better, but […]

Who has more power, a billionaire businessman who earned his money through hard work, insight and guile who has 220.1 million followers on the social media site he owns, or a grifter who inherited his money, has taken companies bankrupt numerous times, has a rinky-dink social network and has turned the White House into a […]