Afternoon folks!

We've got piano great Otis Spann this week and a compilation of earlyish Detroit Blues featuring John Lee Hooker, Eddie Kirkland, Eddie Burns and Sylvester Cotton. Following that, on the harmonica we've got a great album by James Harman. Then there's a boatload of blues rock with Foghat, The J. Geils Band and Chris Youlden (formerly of Savoy Brown). After that there's one of my favorite Van Morrison albums, one by piano pounder Marcia Ball and we finish up with a later album by Steeleye Span.

Enjoy!

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

It seems time to contemplate placing one's hope in the courts to moderate a just society to live, work and maintain a government for the people. One of the methods to change government styles around the world in addition to trade, diplomacy, corporations and military conquest.

In 1644 the Manhattan colony in New Netherlands sent a letter to The Hague court complaining of an incompetent governing official assigned by West India Company and requested authority to create a more liberal form of government - a republic. In 1647 the official answer came with a newly appointed leader and four ships of soldiers to enforce the rules. (The Island at the Center of the World, 2004)

Happy Friday everyone. I hope everybody is doing well. Post any photos, memes, or music you like.

I stopped by the rose garden when I was at Balboa Park last week. The rose bushes are just starting to blossom again after being pruned back around the beginning of the year.

Welcome. This is a stand-in essay to fill an open slot. If anyone would like to consider
posting a regular or occasional feature, it could be fun.

RFK Jr. is now in the primary:

Here's the full speech, from Boston, Massachusetts:

The Disinformation War

One of the current events-heists-rigamarole-stunts-etc being pulled on Americans is the war on disinformation (or information) - whatever disinformation (or information) is. I say that, because disinformation seems to vary in meaning depending upon whatever political entity is speaking. I've certainly learned a lot about how to detect and disregard disinformation (of all sorts and kinds) from the people here at Caucus 99% who bring such disinformation to our attention and discuss it, for which I'm very grateful.

Welcome. Those famous words were attributed to Captain John Parker at Lexington