It was two years later when someone handed me a cassette tape (which for all I know may still exist in a box in my closet) that had the OpIvy album on one side, and Skankin Pickle's debut album on the flip side, telling me I was too into NYC ska & had to learn about west coast ska... Great album. RE:
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Released 36 years ago today Energy, the only studio album by the American ska punk band Operation Ivy, with this track Freezer Up Operation Ivy...
It's that time: time to play "guess which news room with huge multi-million dollar budgets actually posted the court docs, because every article I've read doesn't bother to do so..."
Literally a week ago, Musk claimed that Tesla sales had already recovered from reported declines. When the interviewer pointed to weak EU numbers he said all auto manufacturers were having weak sales in the EU. This report says... nope: just Tesla. RE:
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After basically half the Supreme Court recused itself (nominally, a good thing) from a case involving the company that published many of their books, I wondered... can SCOTUS ever hear a case involving Penguin RandomHouse (a company involved in a number of important legal disputes)? RE:
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When Half The Supreme Court Has Book Deals With The Same Publisher, Who Decides Its Cases? When five Supreme Court Justices recuse themselves fro...
Remembering the day when I was called both a communist and a right wing extremist (yes, by two very different people, but still...). But it is amazing how quickly people jump to labeling people they disagree with in an effort to "other" them and then dismiss everything they have to say. RE:
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So my credit card is expiring, and I got the new one, and am updating all the various services... and seeing that a good percentage of them use something called "Link" but I have no idea what "Link" is, but I have to keep getting texts from Link.
I wrote a thing about the whole shipping people to South Sudan nonsense. RE:
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Homeland Security Defies Orders, Engages In More Human Trafficking Eight men were put on a plane from Texas, bound for South Sudan — a country ...