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Organizing Aid to Gaza Led Me to a Harsh Truth: Biden Is on Board for Ethnic Cleansing

Imagine if The Ramones or Sex Pistols were girls.

With a name like Die Spitz, you’d think this up-and-coming punk band is from Germany, Austria, or perhaps even Switzerland, but they are actually from Austin, Texas. And, a German speaker would know that the German word “Spitz” is masculine, so it should be “Der Spitz.”

By the way, “Spitz” in…[Read more]

An up-and-coming all-girl rock quartet from Argentina.

Last month, Fin del Mundo (“end of the world” in English) exploded onto the Latin American emo/indie/post-rock scene with their debut release: a self-titled EP complete with four carefully-crafted and stunningly beautiful tracks that represent the achievement of a specific and sou…[Read more]

He’s good. He’s also a big promoter of Freeze the Fall, a younger trio (ages 15 and 16) that he and I see as possibly following The Warning to the top in a few years. The singer guitarist is good but the bass and drummer (both 15) are next level.

It never ceases to amaze me how super-talented musicians manage to find each other even in relatively…[Read more]

Oh, I like that. I’ve seen online sites that can separate music into tracks, but I haven’t messed with them yet, and I’m sure they’re not this good. But they’re handy when you want to play or sing along with specific tracks.

I came to post about another lesson on listening. I was impressed by Dany’s high belting in HYCAD, live, but it wasn’t a…[Read more]

I asked the Gemini AI “What would an interstate highway system created by libertarians look like?” and got the following answer, which lays out, I think, why libertarianism won’t work: Nobody would like the result!

Libertarians generally advocate for minimal government intervention in the economy. So, an interstate highway system designed with…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
The basic idea of Libertarianism is Individual Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property, exercised through a Free Market, with the only purpose of Government being the protection of those rights.

Yeah… I get that. That’s an is, not an ought. WHY should that be the basic goal of “Libertarianism” (and why the capitalization,…[Read more]

Bernie Sanders vs. a corporate libertarian.

I’m still waiting for flying cars.

BTW, while something like the Internet was predicted, nobody I’m aware of predicted the effects it’s had on, well, the world.

@ Enco  @ Jake

Trump is a moron and, in many ways, prone to be a tool of more nefarious others. Putin is an obvious puppetmaster, but I’m more worried about the maniacs he gets his ideas from. Some of them who played roles in the fake elector attempted coup, but that leaves some really sinister bad actors behind to enable him to carry out their…[Read more]