Down home again
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 05/13/2025 - 9:41am
Hangin' at home in suburbia this week babysitting our grandkitty Aurora. She is loving the bigger house and the extra large back yard than her own home. And she already found the catnip patch.
Doing the deep spring cleaning routine and fixing stuff around the house and garage.
The Evening Blues - 5-12-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 05/12/2025 - 3:12pm
05/12 Open Thread - Various and Sundry
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 05/12/2025 - 5:00am
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The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 05/11/2025 - 6:29am
We all share the same mitochondrial DNA...we are a human family. We get our mitochondria (the powerhouse of the cell) from our mother. It is like a symbiotic bacteria in our cells.
In 1987, studies of mitochondrial DNA (which tracks maternal ancestry), suggested that all human beings were descendants of one woman who may have lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago.
We also have other mothers in common. We all live on Mother Earth and in Mother Nature. This week we'll take a break from the news and honor Mothers...
MASA
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sun, 05/11/2025 - 5:09amThe actual slogan of the CPAC fantasists can be interpreted from this interview with Brian Berletic:
Can you imagine if Biden had said this?
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 05/10/2025 - 11:58pmIf Biden had said this when he was president we would be seeing a complete meltdown in the right-wing media echo chamber.
Album of the Week 5-10-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Sat, 05/10/2025 - 3:00pmAfternoon folks!
There's some great blues here for you this week, starting off with a B.B. King album recorded with a bunch of prominent British blues-rock types back in the early 70's. Following that is a German Clarence Gatemouth Brown release, showing off a more countryish blues style with a good helping of Gatemouth's fiddle playing. After that we've got an album of a couple of lesser-known Chicago blues players, Morris Pejoe and Arthur "Big Boy" Spires the latter of whom is accompanied by Willie "Big Eyes" Smith in his early incarnation as a harmonica player before he became a drummer for (among others) Muddy Waters.
Next we move on to a great album from David Bromberg followed by Paul Geremia (a lesser-known acoustic blues guitarist and harmonica player). After that it's diversity time, there's some rock and roll with NRBQ, some country rock from Richie Furay (formerly of Buffalo Springfield and Poco) and we finish off with a fine album from Emmylou Harris.
Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!
The plot to resurrect Yoon like administration; coup d'etat still ongoing
Submitted by soryang on Sat, 05/10/2025 - 1:55pmThe leadership of the conservative party in South Korea, with elections pending for president on June 3, decided to try to get rid of Kim Moon-soo, People's Power Party candidate for president with chicanery of dubious lawfulness, to install Han Deok-soo, the former prime minister and acting president from the deposed Yoon Seok-yeol administration.
Saturday Open Thread - 5/10/25: Odds and Ends
Submitted by on the cusp on Sat, 05/10/2025 - 7:00am
Good morning, good people! We are still here, haven't been blown up, and no cyber attack to take away our communication! That's something good. Uh, can't think of much else good.
