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Today’s Nuggets

Don’t waste your time yelling into the echo chamber, love him or hate him, your words about Trump make no difference to the other side, it’s about doing the work, the anonymous drudgery, no one likes to do the work. Sometimes the softest voice commands the most power. We’re conditioned to yell, but Gus Fring […]

musical.ly

I finally downloaded the app (and live.ly too!) It was the article in today’s WSJ. magazine. Let me see, can you access this without a subscription? Unfortunately you can’t, welcome to the new world of haves and have-nots, you thought information was gonna be free forever, but it’s not, you’re gonna pay if you want […]

Hamilton In L.A.

How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore And a Scotsman dropped in the middle of a forgotten Spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor Grow up to be a hero and a scholar? It might have been “We Will Rock You.” Or “Rolling In The Deep.” Or any hit of today. […]

The World Series

It ain’t over til it’s over. That’s the defining characteristic of baseball. There’s no garbage time, no running out of the clock. Until the final out is made, the other team can always win. There was football when I grew up. I remember listening to the championship game in my mother’s Ford Falcon, where you […]