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Today’s News

“Ticketmaster’s Dark History – A 40 year saga of kickbacks, threats, political maneuvering, and the humiliation of Pearl Jam”: https://bit.ly/3Wf2ICE This is what happens when reporters tell a story. They may get the facts right but they miss the essence. And not all the facts are right. This is a tale from thirty years ago, […]

The Twitter Bans

This isn’t about social media, this is about authoritarianism. This is what happens when one person has too much power and exercises it willy-nilly. Not only can no one stop him (or her!), a good percentage of the population supports them. That’s right, Elon Musk is now a hero to the right. Which is kind […]

The Bitch Is Back

“Elon Musk Reinstates Trump’s Twitter Account – Mr. Musk, who had run a poll on Twitter about whether to bring back the former president to the service, said, ‘The people have spoken.’”: https://nyti.ms/3Gu1A9e That was then and this is now. Donald Trump was a disrupter. He said the unsayable. He broke norms. He rallied people […]

Mailbag

From: Dan Millen Subject: Re: Ticketmaster Swift Snafu Date: November 17, 2022 at 2:37:01 PM PST Great time to load up on LYV stock! I call it the TM hate trade. Every time some kerfuffle happens with LYV and ticketmaster people dump the stock, it drops $5-10 and I grab some more, it always creeps […]