Music Friday: "Information Overload"

This morning I was listening to the 1990 release Time's Up by Living Colour. 

Here's a gem from that album. What a great band. 

Random Notes from a Crank

President Adolf has restarted his trade war with Canada. Read all about it in "What Canadian Goods Will Take Trump's 50% Tariffs" in The New York Times. 

Having spent some time in Victoria, BC this month, I noticed that quite a few homes were flying the Canadian flag. I also saw some bumper stickers with the maple-leaf flag on it saying, "Not for Sale." 

A notoriously nice populace is motivated and mobilized. A common refrain I got from cashiers the short time I was there in Victoria was, "No worries." 

I'd also use that phrase if I had universal health care. 

And the one liquor store I visited near my eldest kid's apartment had very little bourbon. It looked like it only had what was left before the ban on U.S. liquor imports happened. 

Whether Canadians will go back to buying American beer, wine, and liquor remains to be seen: "'A Bad Taste in My Mouth': Will Canadians Buy U.S. Booze Again?"

With new tariffs being imposed by with this dumbass administration, I suspect the boycotts on American juice will remain. 

And as NPR reports, PM Carney isn't messing around: "As Canada Readies Retalitory Tariffs, Mark Carney Says His Nation Is 'At War' with U.S." 

The concerns are real about data centers. If a political candidate wants to go across party lines, oppose the building of data centers: "The Data Center Backlash Bursts into the Midterms." 

Music Friday: "Semi-Charmed Life"

It's a true sign that the marketers are going after your age group when a song you listened to and liked in your 20s is being used in a commercial. 

That's the case with Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life." 

Musing of the Moment: U.S. Debt, Gas Prices, & Inflation

 

Here's one of the many gas pumps I visited as we drove back from Victoria, British Columbia after taking our oldest kid there for their start to graduate school. 

As The New York Times reports that the U.S. is in debt up to $40 trillion dollars, see "U.S. Debt Hits $40 Trillion as America's Borrowing Binge Continues," everyday Americans are getting screwed by sky-high gas prices and inflation. 

Moscow Don and MAGA are really MAME. 

Making America More Expensive

Americans are getting gouged at the pumps because of this stupid war the US has no business being in. And that price per gallon above isn't even close to the diesel price that are directly connected to all kinds of shipping costs.

As Americans suffer difficult economic consequences because of the Iran War, the feckless Republican cowards in the House and Senate do nothing to hold the current administration accountable.

Instead, the complicit cowards will kiss the ass and lick the Florsheims of a very dangerous, clownish, narcissistic, boorish, moronic mountebank.

I hope the mid-terms are a reckoning for good.

Music Friday: "doom"

I read an article about the musical artist Steve Lacy in The New Yorker and decided to check him out. 

He was described as someone who mixes hip hop, R&B, and alternative rock, and that mix sounded interesting. 

Here's "doom" from the his most recent release Oh yeah? 

Music Friday: "Won't You Come Out Tonight"

I listened to a lot of SiriusXM's Spectrum a lot over the past week because Mrs. Nasty and I drove out to Victoria, British Columbia to move our eldest daughter there for grad school. 

This song isn't my favorite on his new album, but it's concise, positive song.