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It's most definitely a spade.

I have been obsessed with this performance for the past two weeks and have listened to it a couple or three times a day since. I'm sure I'll move on to something else soon but I'm enjoying the hell out of it in the meantime.

Tell us exactly what you would need to see to be convinced that Ginni Thomas did something inappropriate or compromising to the Justice here. Because If this is your actual position, then you either believe that January 6 was merely legitimate political discourse and not at all an assault on the core of our Constitutionally-guaranteed transfer of power, or that her reported involvement in enabling it is simply legally-protected political action, and allowable as long as she didn’t personally ram the business end of a flagpole through a Capitol officer’s throat. I suppose a third option is that you believe everything being reported about Ginny Thomas’s involvement is a lie, at which point I would love to hear your counterevidence on that.

That's kind of true. I think Zeppelin wrote the song (well, as much as they "wrote" any song in those early days), but the vocal is Percy channeling Janis.

I saw Chick Corea in 1981 for free at the Montreux Detroit Jazz Fesitval, but I paid money to see a couple years later. This is my favorite song from him which, now that i think of it, is fairly atypical for Chick Corea music.

"Since I've Been Loving You", which is one of my all-time favorites from that band, is basically a Janis Joplin song.

The Rolling Stones became the greatest on the planet when they started softening and countrifying their sound in 1968-69 for Beggars' and Bleed. They took over that mantle from the Beatles and single-handedly changed the direction of rock music, leading to scads of country rock classic acts and songs in the following few years. You can basically thank the evolution they wrought for the Eagles. Led Zeppelin became the greatest band on the planet through the early to mid 1970s, leading to a bunch of chainsaw rock acts that were the most popular genre of rock through the end of the decade.

As much as I like Chick Corea—I actually paid money to see him in concert!—he would very much be the wrong answer here.

I've always thought there is a clear difference between "best" and "greatest". I take "greatest" to mean most impactful in size, scope and influence, whereas "best" is more a matter of personal preference, similar to "favorite". I made that point in the old political forum when I posted that the United States is inarguably the greatest country on Earth, but whether it's the best country on Earth could be fodder for a spirited debate. (Not here, of course ... 😏)

The Doors are perfectly execrable. The moment I hear even a single note of that Manzarek keyboard, I can't reach for the volume or tuner knobs fast enough. As for Dylan ... talk about someone whose celebrity eventually eclipsed his music ...

If you like that song, you might like this one. It was in a KIA commercial like ten or twelve years ago. It got completely by me when it first came out.

FWIW, I find the news to be neither bad nor good as I have literally no feelings toward him, the person. I will say that he is a man of 73 years, so whatever happens, that's not a bad run.

Looks more like a Kieran to me. 😏

How could your wife possibly be annoyed by your desire to spend your money as wisely as possible?

I’m with you on this. My wife is still way into it. I’m starting to run out of gas on it.

Jack Lopez would definitely be an out-of-nowhere make.

That can’t be a serious post.

Then it looks to me as though that puts us in a super difficult position, because Putin’s is slaughtering Ukrainian civilians, and we simply cannot respond in by doing the same with Russian civilians. And just about any military action we undertake would put civilians at mortal risk—otherwise we risk losing support from the rest of the world. And US don’t necessarily have a very good track record recently of avoiding civilian collateral damage. So it seems like there’s a very fine needle we have to thread here, and it’s gonna be a challenge to make Putin take notice and pause without our having to play in his particular sandbox.

The crux of the biscuit, right here. Let’s not pretend that corporations are zombies rising from a state of inanimacy to impose its self-directed political will on the process. A corporations’s political activities reflect the supercharged will of the most powerful person within it, usually the CEO. It’s a way for one person to cloak themselves and their personal intentions behind the imprimatur of an institution. It’s a way for such people to wield an inordinate amount of power far out of proportion to what the Founding Fathers intended for the individual citizens of the nation. Call it dark influence, maybe, although if you think about it for a few seconds, you can usually figure out who’s behind it in most cases.

Well, sure, as long as it’s being allowed, of course Democrats aren’t going to unilaterally lay down their arms and get rolled over in the dark funding game. And I grant there are Democrats who are just fine playing in that muck. My belief is that, funding aside, in strictly a marketplace of ideas, absent either dark funding or dramatic funding imbalances, and with a free and fair election landscape in play in which literally everyone who is eligible to vote can do so if only they wish to, today’s Republican Party would get slaughtered by todays’ Democratic Party. I would like to see dark money banned outright, for everyone, regardless.

Sure, I agree, and we always have to prepare for any contingency. I’m just wondering, what’s the red line step? Can you proceed up an educated guess?

Really? Didn't Correa just do a press conference welcoming him to the Twins yesterday? That wouldn't have been in Minneapolis, would it have been?