Discussion: Picketing at Greenway Market?

mrincredible said:

you may think that’s funny but it’s not

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Discussion: Picketing at Greenway Market?

Since we are lacking data, we have to fall back on the general condition that, in the aggregate, unions are good for both workers and communities

https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-and-well-being/

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Discussion: The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

got the QB. My last word was a very common word. Can't believe it took me that long to see it.

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Discussion: Trump shot at rally?

Jaytee said:

Man who voted for trump in 2016 attempts to assassinate trump on gulf course in Florida….

He obviously works for the CIA or one of those NGO fronts for the CIA, and was under orders to assassinate Trump for Zelensky.

At least, that's what I gather from reading Max Blumenthal on the Twitter.

routh from:maxblumenthal - Search / X

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Discussion: Roger McGuinn at SOPAC

The video above was posted in a Politics thread, and it called to mind Roger McGuinn’s autobiographical acoustic performance at SOPAC on Saturday, when he mentioned how much it meant to him for Dylan and the other all-stars to choose his arrangement of My Back Pages for this concert and to grant him the honor of singing the opening verse.

It’s still hard for me to believe it was my honor to sit just a couple of dozen of feet away from a giant like Roger McGuinn, who at 82 remained nimble-fingered on guitar and banjo. (His voice was even reedier with age, but hell if I cared.) 

My favorite anecdote he shared was about his friend Peter Fonda’s asking him for a new song for Fonda’s low-budget motorcycle movie. McGuinn suggests that Fonda ask Dylan instead. Fonda flies to New York and finds Dylan in a bar. Dylan scribbles something on a cocktail napkin, hands it to Fonda and says: “Give this to McGuinn. He’ll know what to do with it.” Fonda flies back go L.A. and shows up at McGuinn’s door with the napkin. On it is written: “The river flows. It flows to the sea. Wherever that river goes, that’s where I want to be.”

McGuinn takes the Ballad of Easy Rider from there.

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Discussion: The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

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Discussion: Excellent job, N.J.S.P.

Formerlyjerseyjack said:

Three cars pulled over... Porsche,  and two "vetted. Each at the same time and about 1/2 mile between the pulled over cars.

Of course, I'm only speculating on the purpose of the pull-overs. Maybe they were selling tickets to the Policemen' Ball."

was this on 78? 

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Discussion: The NYT Spelling Bee Thread

Got the last word with the help of the Buddy. We can discuss tomorrow :-)

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Discussion: Taylor Swift just endorsed Kamala.

nan said:

Have you ever been a fan of someone and then found out their politics sucked?  

Eric Clapton.

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Discussion: Taylor Swift just endorsed Kamala.

Steve said:

Very aware about Roger Waters; not at all aware of Carlos Santana.  Anyway, was always a huge Clapton fan.  Bought Crossroads on CD when it came out even though I didn't yet own a CD player.

over the years I just got tired and bored with Clapton's guitar playing and eventually came to dislike him as an artist. So when I heard about his awful politics (somehow I missed his 70s racist rant) during pandemic, my reaction was basically:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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