Month: September 2018

25 years of the Old 97’s

The Old 97’s put on a great show and I am looking forward to seeing them again in December.

Here are some examples of their work:

Buybacks are the largest share spending by S&P 500 companies

Lots of people said this would happen.

Will Trump try to end the Mueller probe?

He’s attacking it as being illegal (which it isn’t).  I wouldn’t be surprised if he stopped it while Republicans still control Congress and won’t stop him.

Woodward didn’t find evidence of collusion because he wrote about the Trump presidency, not the campaign.  He wasn’t looking for collusion.

John Prine

Here’s a new interview with John Prine

Prine is one of America’s greatest singer-songwriters.  If don’t know his music, start with his first album, John Prine.

Try “Angel From Montgomery” or “Hello in There”.

I think his second album, Diamonds in the Rough is much better musically – less country backup, more folk music with great performers like Steve Goodman and David Bromberg.  However, the songs are not as good except for “Everybody”, a humorous song about meeting Jesus.

He has made many other albums and they are worth searching out.

I have seen him perform about three or four times.  My favorite was a show with Steve Goodman in the late 1970s where they each performed solo with an acoustic guitar.  For an encore, they did about five Hank Williams songs together.  I still recall that they did “Setting’ the Woods on Fire” which was not one of his best-known songs then.

Another report concludes identity politics, not the economy, determined the winner in 2016

 

Trump rants on Twitter (again)

Trump is obsessed with himself.  There are all of these guilty pleas and convictions and he still claims it’s a witch hunt.  How can anybody think that now?

I wonder if he will try to suppress the Mueller report if it is finished before the 2018 elections.  He is laying the groundwork for it here by saying that Mueller and the Democrats are using it to hurt Republicans in the midterms.  I don’t put anything past him.

He also loves to retweet compliments about him.