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Come Back Baby, Rock & Roll Never Forgets
It might seem a little odd to use a quote for a tribute post to Chuck Berry to use the lyrics to a Bob Seeger tune, but it was precisely the action of downloading the line below from that tune when it...
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Epiphone Les Paul SL Review
Well, here it is! It sill has the plastic on the front and it’s hang tag on it. All I did was stretch the strings and tune it up. Literally right out of the box. Here’s a fun fact: in 1964,...
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Will we ever get to the bottom of this?
The political turmoil we are going through right now has certainly vaulted the very idea of “The Truth” to center stage. On the surface, the whole idea of True/False would seem to be an instance of...
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People Can have the Power, we just need to do it.
I think we need to realize that the concentration of wealth we are now experiencing in the United States also confers a concentration of power that allows a small percentage of the population to...
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November 2020
Pretend it’s right after the 2020 Presidential election. Either Donald Trump has been a success and is likely to be re-elected, a failure, and likely to not be elected, or he is no longer the...
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A snapshot of the world’s economy.
What you see in the photo below is a chart showing the 50 countries with the highest nominal GDP, ranked by size, with the largest at the top. The pink column is GDP in millions of dollars, the light...
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My very own Time Machine.
The first pickup I was ever aware of was a 1950 ford F-3 that was always parked behind the chicken wire fence between our back yard and the neighbors property. It sat there most of time, but...
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Remembering John McCain
It’s gratifying to see such a large response out of people on “both sides of the aisle” as I think he would have appreciated that people would take the time to put down their differences to remember...
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A Cadillac at Le Mans
One of the more amazing feats in automotive history was when, in 1950, Briggs Cunningham took a basically stock Cadillac Series 61 Coupe to Le Mans and placed it in tenth place. Co-driven by Miles...
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