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From: george drakoulias Subject: Re: Forever Young Date: November 2, 2025 at 5:55:22?PM PST Bob ever see this, spectacular _________________________________________ From: Harvey Goldsmith Subject: Grateful Dead Date: November 15, 2025 at 2:20:12?AM PST Dear Bob Great piece on the Dead.  I first met them in 1968 when they played a free show in Golden Gate […]

Misinformation

Last night Bill Maher said the average price of a Taylor Swift ticket was over $4000. Really. My favorite story on this came from Tony Wilson. His first job out of Oxbridge was in a television news department. On a Saturday night he collected the European football scores and the newsreader got them wrong. Tony […]

Musk’s Trillion Dollar Compensation

I was told I could be President. I learned that in first grade. I could see the opportunity, the trajectory, we were all starting from the same line. Now, who would want to be President? Certainly not me. I was told if I worked hard I could be wealthy. They called it the American Dream. […]

Tuesday’s Election

The story for me is how out of touch the press is. The right said Trump had a mandate. The left said the party had to run to the center. And everybody in the pundit class, everybody in D.C., seemed to have no understanding of the mind-set of the people. And the question arises, if […]