His hatred for all things Trump is irrefutable. He's been very outspoken about it. And he may be the biggest fucking hypocrite of his (my) generation. In January, Springsteen released the single “Streets of Minneapolis”. He performed the protest song at an anti-Trump “No Kings” rally in St. Paul, Minnesota two days before purposefully beginning this “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour in Minneapolis March 31. He’s been joined each night by Tom Morello, guitarist for Rage Against the Machine and an 'icon of seething rock rebellion', to emphasize his fury. One problem: It’s all hypocritical crap. Profiteering over legitimate protest. Springsteen’s artistic identity, as a bleeding-heart populist who sings for the destitute and downtrodden, has never been more disconnected from his economic behavior as a touring act or businessman. The blue-collar troubadour now charges exorbitant amounts for his tickets - up to $2,900 retail for the best seats in Newark Monday; prices he agreed to despite fan backlash.
He’s selling “No Kings” branded flags for $90 in the arena concourse. And last week, his merchandise distributor got an injunction passed to ban bootleg T-shirt sales outside the venue, even as crews of independent sellers - fine examples of working-class people he’s romanticized for 50 years - hawk merch at nearly every other Prudential Center show without issue. Thanks to NJ.com for the heads-up on this and thanks to the NY Post for pointing us in that direction.
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'Bottom of the Sixth' (Three Umpires) by Norman Rockwell for the April 23, 1949 issue. This Rockwell cover depicts Ebbets Field, the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Here, the Dodgers are trailing the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 in the sixth inning. If the arbiters - left to right, Harry Goetz, Beans Reardon and Lou Jorda - call the game because of rain, the score will stand as is, and Pittsburgh will win. This irks the Brooklynites, who dislike having other teams win. In the picture, Clyde Sukeforth, a Brooklyn coach, could well be saying, “You may be all wet, but it ain’t raining a drop!” The huddled Pittsburgher - Bill Meyer, Pirate manager - is doubtless retorting, “For the love of Abner Doubleday, how can we play ball in this cloudburst?”
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This is a good example of how we prove to ourselves that everything is relative - relative to it's time and place in sociey and history. These are the children of a miner on the back porch of their house, for which the family pays $5.25 monthly rent plus 90 cents for electricity in Bell County, Kentucky, back at the end of 1945.
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The pollen counts are still very high all over.
Now's a good time to change your filters.
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And you think parking is bad where you live? ...
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Me thinks our friend McGroarty is getting a bit jaded... ...
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Tucker Carlson's latest podcast episode with his brother Buckely Carlson shocked both the host and viewers after the pair floated wild claims that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are homosexuals.
'Most people don't talk about that,' Buckley continued, adding, 'They should.' Tucker Carlson's face immediately soured as he stammered out a response while his brother repeatedly apologized.
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Does the bear shit in the woods? ...
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I'll call your LGBTQXYZ!@#+ and I'll raise you...
MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ is an official, comprehensive acronym now used in Canada representing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Inter3sex, and Asexual+ people. It highlights the intersectional, high rates of violence against Indigenous women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals. I swear - on my Mother's eyes - this is legit. You CAN NOT make this shit up. And my Mother had glaucoma.
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A side of Niki we never saw. I wonder how she's doing these days...
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