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Welcome to 2026

I'm not sure if we're in WWIII or just in wars all around the world. The US criminal enterprise has now kidnapped the president of another country in order to steal their resources. The fake cover story of drugs is more bogus than Iraq's WMD. Next up, Iran, where Trump has green lit an attack by Israel which he will back. I have no idea how western powers will cope with their loss in Ukraine, but my guess is badly. And then we have China, where we're sending weapons to one of their provinces (Taiwan) in order to provoke war there. Absolute insanity. This is a war on BRICS+ in order to thwart their rise. We remain ignorant to the fact that our actions have increased the influence of BRICS+ as the rest of the world tries to escape US bullying.

Afternoon folks!

This week it's all hits, no errors. Starting off there's a compilation album of early recordings from one of New Orleans' finest songwriters and guitarists, Earl King. After that a live album from Chicago harmonica player Junior Wells followed by an album from a fine vocalist, Mighty Sam McClain. After that is the other half of the compilation of Sonny Terry recordings from last week and then we switch up genres for an album from Buckwheat Zydeco. We finish up with another genre switchup with an album from the Old Crow Medicine Show.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people! I hope everyone has enjoyed the holidays and is enjoying this weekend before things, such as working, go back to normal.

I am kinda sort of pegging a date to retire, which really means I will work from home and provide wills, deeds, and some documents for pro se litigants in family law cases. It just won't be 9 to 5.

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

The sun has set on another year. One that was filled with fires, floods, the military on our city streets, inflation, a crumbling economy, piracy, war, and some really bad movies. So long 2025. I don't think to many people will be sad to see you go.

Happy New Year.

A New Year!

2026 - Who'da thunk? It's a New Year! When I was much, much younger, I never thought I'd see 2000 nevermind 2026. I mean, in 2000 I'd be almost 40... who lives that long (thought 18 year old me)? Dang, was I young-stupid, or what?!

So since it's a holiday, here's an interesting article and some fun stuff!

A recent article on the BBC about spotting AI videos was pretty good. I like the conclusion about treating videos like one treats text.

You'd never look at a piece of text and assume it's true just because someone wrote it down. If there's any question, you go investigate the source of the information. Videos and images used to be different, because they were harder to fake and manipulate. That's over now. The only thing that matters now is where a piece of content came from, who posted it, what the context is and whether it's been verified by a trustworthy source. The question is when (or if) we're all going to wrap our heads around that fact.