I see that peerless vocalist Dave Clayton-Thomas (Blood Sweat & Tears) recently passed away.
Damn. I saw him and BS&T live in Johannesburg back in the late 1970s, and they blew the doors off the theater.
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Finally
Start your engines, rev them loudly and turn your A/C down to 65, because the foolishness is ending:
The reelection of President Donald Trump came with an overall shift in the political landscape regarding climate and energy issues. Since then, major media outlets shut down their climate desks, corporations are easing back on emission-reduction targets, and polls consistently show the public rates climate change low on their list of priorities.
Can we also repeal all those stupid CAFE standards and regulations on auto companies and the cars they sell?
Could-a, Should-a
Here’s one that got my right index finger twitching:
A Saudi Arabian asylum seeker activist has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering six people and injuring hundreds more at a Christmas market in Germany in 2024.
This week, the Magdeburg Regional Court handed down the maximum sentence to Taleb Al Abdulmohsen over an attack on the town’s Christmas market in which he used a rental car to plough into pedestrians, killing six, including a nine-year-old boy and five women. Over 300 more were left injured in the frenzied attack.
So far, so good — although a more fitting punishment would have been slow impalement — but here’s what got under my skin:
The Saudi Arabian native had arrived in Germany in 2006 and was granted asylum ten years later, despite warnings from Riyadh, Kuwait, and the United Kingdom over potential criminal acts.
…whereupon my feeling rage directed towards this asshole promptly transferred itself towards the Kraut officials who ignored those warnings and granted the lunatic asylum status.
So six people died and three hundred more people were injured as a result as a result of this foolishness.
Now read all about Citizen Vigilante.
Monday Funnies
…in honor of the latest FIFA World Cup.
And a classical reference:
So on we go, into the modern age:
And to end the silliness, I’m declaring today as:
Classic Beauty: Rose Stradner
Here’s an interesting one. Born in Austria, Rose Stradner eventually found her way over to Hollywood, starred in a couple decent movies — she was an excellent actress — and ended up marrying director Joe Mankiewicz.
That’s the bare bones of it. In fact, she was schizophrenic, a condition which went ballistic if she had a few cocktails — and she loved to drink. In fact, the memorable expression “Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride!” was supposedly coined during a dinner party when Rose started to go off the edge, then later used in All About Eve.
It all ended when she popped a jugful of sleeping tablets, at age 45.