So, the US amassing military in the Middle East, latin America, Greenland and the US. China must be very happy right now. Russia too.

No. It does not make sense for Russia to keep fighting. They should go home.

The problem with that is the rash of deaths of people with copyright over desirable content.

And this isn’t just speculative.

That’s the conservative way.

I suspect the Venezuela and Greenland things are really to provoke a war so he can suspend elections indefinitely and have some modicum of support for it.

I read that as “lighter” and [Pam] Bondi at first.

Good on ya, Oz!

The trick is, how do you make a statement federally without disrupting the state?

Macron, don’t join. The rest if the world will happily increase our purchase of your wines to offset losses stemming from any decrease in sales you experience in the US.

I’m guessing 30% of Americans think that the king of Norway mints Nobel prizes in Greenland?

I don’t think they do. But they DO think there are billionaires who will support their personal views and provide dividends to the worthy few right thinkers.

Why are they responding with tariffs?

They should be responding with sanctions.

My imagined Trump response:

“Sure thing! Where is she?”

What I’d like to know is, why does Trump feel so insecure unless he takes one of Denmark’s islands? What is he afraid of?

And if it’s not him, and someone else is feeding him this garbage… why?

I mean, there’s plenty of time to forcibly take Greenland AFTER the world begins to fall apart. So why now?

Are you looking for likeminded individuals with which to cross-train your model?

Nobody wins. Someone just gets control of the official narrative.

But who’s the “you” you’re asking here?

Easier to say “everyone but the US and possibly NK.”

I disagree. Anyone should be allowed to vote. But I’d happily support mandatory civics classes to be able to do so, where you actually have to pass to get your voter registration number.

It’s not just useful for lawsuits (creating them and defending against them) — it also helps you identify early if a new job is going down the same path.

You’re still doing a lot of glossing.

My parents listened to Roy Orbison, Chubby Checker, Buddy Holly, and some of the very early Elvis. Would they consider Elvis “oldies?” Probably not — he was pop music to them. Roy Orbison? Yeah; he’d be oldies.

To me, Madonna and Prince are oldies.

Think of them not as means of differentiating musical style for you, but as historical ways of explaining how a band or musical movement differed from the norm.

Take a band like The Beach Boys. In the 70s, what they were doing was alternative rock — that is, they took the dance/music genre of classic rock and roll, and re-imagined how it would sound on a sandy beach at a surf party instead of in a dance hall.

Enter the 80s, and their music became part of the cultural norm, so they were popular/“pop” music.

And yet, as a band, they kept adding new techniques and writing new music right into the 2000s, often drifting back out of popular culture while doing so.

The point of this is, see what the subgenre tells you about the musicians; it isn’t really a useful way to clearly divide musical works themselves into subcategories.