We are living in an age of unhingedness, punctuated with only occasional pockets of sanity. Though few and far between, those oases are important. They are worth the effort to find.
I have nothing to add to the last half of your essay, other than maybe a hearty, "Amen!" It's the first half that has me commenting.
My best friend in high school (and we're still in regular contact 40 years later) introduced me to Steely Dan. I latched on and their music comprises the most hours of play time throughout my life's soundtrack. Of course, all my kids know it well too.
Shortly after Walter Becker died, his estate auctioned much of his collection and my friend won one of the guitars. It wasn't a "special" guitar, from a collector's perspective, but it is certainly one of his most prized possessions. Enjoy and play it well! I hope you'll grace us with a few licks sometime.
They’re “suffused with incompetence” is foremost cause of legacy media’s loss of credibility. When Trump’s people announced promotion of Sean Curran to head the Secret Service NOT ONE OF THE PRESS CORPS asked why Sean Curran was promoted to that position when he demonstrated massive incompetence as top manager of the Secret Service detail at the July 13, 2024 Trump speech in Butler PA where the Secret Service ended up looking like the Keystone Cops.(?)
If this White House press corps had been serious journalists they would have done their homework (a word they probably have never heard for their entire deficient US public education experience) and would have known about Curran’s questionable record! Or were they aware but just too chicken-shit to risk getting their White House passes revoked?
I have nothing to add to the last half of your essay, other than maybe a hearty, "Amen!" It's the first half that has me commenting.
My best friend in high school (and we're still in regular contact 40 years later) introduced me to Steely Dan. I latched on and their music comprises the most hours of play time throughout my life's soundtrack. Of course, all my kids know it well too.
Shortly after Walter Becker died, his estate auctioned much of his collection and my friend won one of the guitars. It wasn't a "special" guitar, from a collector's perspective, but it is certainly one of his most prized possessions. Enjoy and play it well! I hope you'll grace us with a few licks sometime.
They’re “suffused with incompetence” is foremost cause of legacy media’s loss of credibility. When Trump’s people announced promotion of Sean Curran to head the Secret Service NOT ONE OF THE PRESS CORPS asked why Sean Curran was promoted to that position when he demonstrated massive incompetence as top manager of the Secret Service detail at the July 13, 2024 Trump speech in Butler PA where the Secret Service ended up looking like the Keystone Cops.(?)
If this White House press corps had been serious journalists they would have done their homework (a word they probably have never heard for their entire deficient US public education experience) and would have known about Curran’s questionable record! Or were they aware but just too chicken-shit to risk getting their White House passes revoked?