I'll be late for my own funeral.
Sorry about the late post. Was up late last night with an evening dinner engagement with family.
We were at the best steakhouse in Portland, The Ringside, and I splurged and had a 12 Oz. Dry aged bone_in New York cut priced at $84.
What was the occasion?

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a local dairy makes some mighty fine cheese selections

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you may have heard Canada's finance minister Chrystia Freeland resigned.
oops, one less Neo-nazi in power. Who is next? Trudeau, Zelensky, Scholz,
Macron, or Yoon? Unpopularity in crooked leaders is growing like cheese mold.

Constitutional Court Justice Jeong Hyeong-sik nominated as presiding judge for impeachment trial

The decision was made by random assignment by a computer, and he is also the brother-in-law of Park Seon-young, the chairman of the Jinwha Committee
appointed by Yoon Seok-yeol after the December 3 civil war.

For those who don't know, Grok is Elon Musk's chat AI. Candace Owens is taking flak for having an interview with a survivor from the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty. She is being labelled an antisemite.

The interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD5gtM1A990

The backlash:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/general/candace-owens-named-anti...

So I asked Grok what he thought and - expecting to find the propaganda laced response I received - decided to school the AI. Now Grok is an antisemite too.

Black Flags Over Damascus

This moment reminds me of the US celebrating bin Laden and al Queda for ridding Afghanistan of the USSR. Later he declared war on the US. I suspect HTS and al Golani will play out in a similar manner. No matter, the nation state of Syria is no more. Of course it was a post world war (1946) creation itself, although Damascus is quite old. Many scholars believe that, among the ancient cities of the world, Damascus is perhaps the oldest continuously inhabited. Over the centuries, Damascus has been conqueror and conquered, wealthy and destitute, and capital of empire and small states. Sadly it's pluralistic culture is likely to be dissolved. (excellent article)

Afternoon folks!

There's some pretty cool stuff this week. Starting off we've got an early 70's John Lee Hooker album with some really great boogie tunes on it followed by a Stax-era Albert King album. Then it's on to blues-rock with the deluxe 3-disc version of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's lost session - some great stuff on it. After that there's a Little Feat album and an Alvin Lee & Ten Years Later album. Finishing off, there's a folky Richard Thompson solo acoustic album.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!