Wine enthusiast Steven Nordhoff typically spends about $25,000 a year adding to his 2,500-bottle collection, including reds from Italy or champagnes from France. But not now. Trump’s threat to slap 200% tariffs on European wines and spirits has the Southern California family law attorney pausing his purchases from abroad. I read this in the news Read More …
Category: Opinion
Hypocritical Turd – Elmo Musk
This is the guy saying there is so much bloat and waste in the government….. and yet, it seems he is the largest benefactor of government spending in modern times. Talk about conflict of interest. Every article I see is referencing the Washington Post research. I find this interesting, is the Post is now owned Read More …
Meme Stock – NOVA – Sunnova
Admittedly I have 4 shares of this company that I bought at the $3.02 mark. I thought the bottom had hit, but was not quite sure. So for $12.08, the cost of a couple of cheap months of Netflix, I lost $10, as I am selling today, but I learned a valuable lesson. There is Read More …
Some not so quick reads
Japan Birth Rate Thread Reader How both parties have failed The Masquerade & The Void Farewell Address The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads Read More …
Elmo adds to his conflict of interest
Just wanting to add to the growing list of issues with DOGE, and Elmo’s ability to decide what is a good or bad government program. Musk’s Starlink gets FAA contract At this point, he is just being blatant about it, knowing that there is hardly anything anyone can do, because the petty orange man-baby is Read More …
So many Leopards
So many of these posts on Social Media these days. ofc, this is the echo chamber that I am served by these platforms. So it this what I want to see, or what it thinks I want to see? I can honestly say, that it is getting exhausting muting, blocking, and unfollowing all of the Read More …
DMTA – Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique
This is a tough album for me to review. The reason I picked it first was it fulfilled 2 requirements. One is simply enough, I owned the album. The next requirement, was that it was first in alphabetical order of the albums I owned. OK, on to why this is tough to review. I Read More …
DMTA – What do I actually own
So I was planning on starting with Mule Variations by Tom Waits, as I knew this was one record I had. Turns out I was wrong. This lead to me going through the entire list to make sure that there is in fact one album in Duff’s list that I actually own now. There are Read More …
Trumpian Politics – A Progressive Trump in the Midwest
In this first episode of Trumpian Politics, I want to show our impartiality. Yes, I know we are named for the orange clown show, but I thought it important to showcase another trumpian in office. This one is the mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson. “If you ain’t with us, you just gotta go.” To be Read More …
The Duff McKagan Top Albums
Sometimes you just need to know where to start. That’s what this list represents to me. I had always thought of some list like this. Whether my creation or writing a critique of another’s list. I took the easy way out. I am going to review someone else’s list. For me, this is the list Read More …