2025-04-03: "Bruce Springsteen will release a boxed set of seven albums of songs never before released."
Boxed set. Tell me you are from a bygone era without telling me your name or what years your biggest hits were released.
2025-04-03: In reaction to Trump's announcement of the imposition of broad tariffs on almost all of America's trading partners, the Dollar Tree announced an immediate name change to "$1.10 Tree."
2025-04-03: The Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act was a 1930 law that implemented protectionist trade policies in the United States. The Constitution says, "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises." What I don't understand is why did Congress cede this power to the President?
2025-04-03: Material for a class on reading graphs. Where is the USA on this graph? For extra credit, explain why it's where it is. If students can't answer, teachers should be asked why we're not teaching our kids how our economy works?
2025-04-03: I love how AI transcribes oral inputs. My favorite today is "Mayor Bob Doom."
2025-04-03: "Trump Tariffs Wipe Out $2 Trillion From US Stock Market"
Tired of winning yet?
2025-04-04: In 2021, of $151.1 billion in the U.S. exports to China, the top exports were Machinery and Mechanical Appliances, Agriculture, and Chemicals, Plastics, Rubber and Leather Goods. China's reciprocal tariffs means Chinese companies will look elsewhere to buy these things and others. Tired of winning yet?
2025-04-04: Chair of the nation's bank, the Federal Reserve, says Trump’s tariffs raise risks of higher inflation and slower growth.
Tired of winning yet?
2025-04-04: The S&P 500 closed the week down 9.1%, marking its worst weekly drop since March 2020. The good news is that the 2020 drop was caused by COVID, something difficult to overcome. The 2025 drop was caused by our President's stupidity, something that can be easily reversed. Not that it will be, but it can be.
2025-04-06: Trump has changed the National Park Service's web page about the Underground Railway. It used to say the Underground Railway featured resistance to slavery. Now it says it "bridged the divides of race."
2025-04-08: A new Facebook group has appeared in my newsfeed. It has "Truth and Integrity" in its name, but it has an anonymous sock puppet account using the name and photo of a dead man as its one and only admin. Ironic, no? They need to make room for "Hypocrisy" in the group name.
2025-04-24: Headline: "Dozens killed as gunmen massacre tourists in Kashmir beauty spot."
I was fortunate to visit Kashmir in 1977. I have nothing but good memories. It was an idyllic spot then. Now, it's torn by violence. Tragic.
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