"Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason, and invective for documentation than in politics."
John Mason Brown, Through These Men, 1952

Brown, a renowned American journalist in his time, is largely unknown today, but his insightful commentary on humanity shouldn't be.

"Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged."
Justice William O. Douglas, An Almanac of Liberty

In 57 years of playing guitar there have been a statistically insignificant number of solos that I've tried to learn. Oh, I may hear a lick here and there that makes me say, "Huh, let's figure that one out," but, for the most part, that's not why I play. Music, it's not what I do, It's who I am.

Sure does. My wife and I were talking about this last night and how we owe it to every WWII veteran to resist in whatever way we can.

It was one of our favorite getaways. Then, it was taken over by a national chain, and now the rooms are pedestrian — generic "motel." In such times as these, one of the most important things we can do is continue to let our freak flags fly. To hell with "normal," keep the weird. Save the quirk!

Anybody who's been following Gibson for the past several decades would have seen that coming. That said, my first electric guitar was a pre-lawsuit Univox Les Paul copy, which was pretty decent.

Don't forget the use of LLMs to generate bad pR0n. I have a local AI server running Ollama and Open WebUI with multiple models to help with research, but in the various AI subreddits, I come across a lot of incel-types who are looking for virtual girlfriends.

Just a side note, but I'm old enough to remember when Wonder Bread went from "Helps build strong bodies 8 ways!" to "Helps build strong bodies 12 ways." strictly because the federal standards for nutrition in bread went up. Do the minimum, corporate America.

Rick Nielsen credits his version of that guitar with a lifetime of back issues. So, geekily cool, but take care.

Well, they did say that the goal was not to have anybody who thought they knew more than DJT, so that makes it a lot harder.