Frank Zappa

Born on this date in 1940 in Baltimore

Zappa led the Mothers of Invention and had a long solo career. I saw the Mothers twice – in 1969 and on Mother’s Day in 1970. My favorite Mothers album is We’re Only in It for the Money which combines expert musicianship with sharp satire. I am not that familiar with his solo career. A new film about him has just been released.

this has a great line about Santa

Trump cult voting machine conspiracy theories

One way Trump is trying to overturn the election is to claim there were voting machine problems, There was even talk of seizing the machines. The Trump cult talk about a company called Smartmatic was so off that the right-wing media had to retract it. Trump lost. They will never admit it.

Nonsense about Trump winning more counties

The Trump cult can’t accept that voters picked Biden. They are trying to get courts to overturn the election. They are trying to get states to have legislatures pick electors. Now they are spewing nonsense about how Trump won a lot more counties. He did but the population between counties varies considerably. This is nonsense. It’s clear they will never accept that Trup lost andwill keepo finding to spin crackpot fraud ideas.

Florida manipulated COVID-19 death data

There’s no point in trying to show facts to the Trump cult

A minority (but a large one) will always believe the 2020 election was stolen. Do you really think they would believe articles from the New York Times or the Washington Post that prove it wasn’t? They’ve been brainwashed to think these are fake news factories. Sad!

Covers: M.T.A.

I know this song from my childhood and decided to write about it after reading this article.

Here’s more on “M.T.A” , best known from the Kingston Trio 1959 version.

It was based on older songs:

a variation:

and a sequel:

Trump’s failure led to the pandemic catastrophe

Trump’s potential power grab

Trump defends Russia as usual

Hopefully someday we’ll find out why he is so subservient to Putin. Trump hardly puts America first when it comes to Russia. Sad!

Coronavirus outbreaks 12/18/20