Afternoon folks!

This week there's some great stuff, starting with Chicago blues guitarist Magic Slim recorded live, followed by some great late 40's through early 50's r&b recordings from piano player Jimmy McCracklin and the Blues Blasters. Following that there are albums from harmonica guy Mark Hummel and a really excellent, not to be missed Mike Bloomfield album. Shifting gears a bit, we've got a mid-60's album from Doc & Merle Watson and in that country-folk vein with a little added electricity is a live album from Gram Parsons and the Fallen Angels (featuring Emmylou Harris). Finishing up, get ready to get spaced-out with Stomu Yamashta, Steve Winwood and Micheal Shrieve.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Let's start with the general state of affairs:

Good morning, good people!

I hope everyone has a planned and well-executed fun weekend ensuing. I encourage you all to jump for joy that you aren't Mahmoud Khalil, who had some bad luck from a Louisiana Immigration Judge.

He has 2 weeks to come up with a response to the ruling, but will at least be free on bail until his fate is decided. Rubio said his behavior posed a threat to US foreign policy. I think the definition of "threat" to include peaceful protests against genocide is as cowardly as it can get. Oh! Oh! I am afraid for my foreign policy! is also something pretty damn cowardly. Policy protection? Is the policy that weak and spindly?

I am hoping his appeals will work. If he can be deported for wrong-think, who can't be? There is this beautiful prison in El Salvadore, after all.

Welcome to Friday Night Photos everyone. Your once a week break from the daily madness of the crazy world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music, or whatever else you find of interest that helps you escape the madness.

It's spring. That means it's time for the annual butterfly exhibit at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. I stopped by the park on Monday to check it out. The variety and total number of butterflies and the length of time the exhibit runs varies from year to year. This year the variety and total number were the smallest and the length of run is the shortest I've seen in the dozen years I've been a zoo member. I hope the low numbers this year were an anomaly and not a sign of things to come.

Blue Morpho

Definition

Short selling is a trading strategy in which a trader aims to profit from a decline in a security's price by borrowing shares and selling them, hoping the stock price will then fall, enabling them to purchase the shares back for less money.

Source

In the simple form shorting the stock market is tantamount to betting against it.

I'm going to try to be as unbiased as possible in this opinion piece.

Why?

A couple days ago, as I reading my local news website, I came across an article about how a company is genetically engineering wolf genes and has created 3 supposed instances of the extinct (for tens of thousands of years) dire wolf. These three white wolves are living in an undisclosed location in the USA. I suppose I should be excited about it. But I'm not. My main question is 'Why?'.

Dire Wolf Pups, from the BBC article