Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

Fight them, without becoming them!

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

President Biden is doing good where he can, and getting it done.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Joe Biden can go out like FDR, not by dying in office, but by crushing the fascists.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Cole is on a roll !

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

It’s a new day. Light all those Biden polls of young people on fire and throw away the ashes.

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

Books are my comfort food!

Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

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I’m tired and cranky and got a lot of stuff done today and I also think I got the most sun I have since I got here. It wasn’t near the hottest it has been here since I arrived, and there was a great breeze, but I could feel the intensity of the sun. I’ve been in places where the sun felt like this- when I spent a month in Devil’s Lake North Dakota doing Combat Engineer training circa 1993-94, the sun felt just like it did today. I left North Dakota with one of the best tans I have ever had, and I don’t think I was ever hot the entire time I was there. Weird, that big sky.

Speaking of Devil’s Lake, I had some of the greatest steaks I have ever had on a Reservation nearby the Army post. Another thing that I always wondered about is we spent a lot of time in training dealing with explosives, and I learned how to do some pretty crazy shit with just det cord and blasting caps, but of particular note was that we spent an entire day mixing diesel fuel with fertilizer being taught how to make fertilizer bombs to use as cratering charges. Within a year or two of my training, that fucking scumbag Timothy McVeigh blew up the Federal building with none other than a massive fertilizer bomb. Like I said, I wonder if they still teach that in the Army.

***

While I was out running an errand today I was in a plaza, and there was a teeth whitening place. I guess they have those independent of dentist’s offices now, but that’s not the point. What caught my eye was this fucking cry for help:

Sunday Night Open Thread 7

Jesus christ, we may have to face the fact that we’ve broken millenials and gen Z. How the fuck did this get through the ad department- “Life is short and in the end there is only pain and sadness and death. Also, we bleach teeth.”

Fucking hell.

***

I’m off to make dinner- fajitas, what else- and then maybe watch some tv and go to bed. Here’s a picture of Steve for ya:

Sunday Night Open Thread 8

*** Update ***

I bigfooted Anne Laurie so took it down, dinner was great, watching the Grammys, and fuck the Republicans for what they are doing to Ukraine.

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  8. 8.

    JPL

    My dream is that next week’s game is won by the Chiefs and Miley and Taylor pop out of a cake to celebrate together.   Of course, they’d be holding Joe Biden signs.

    Wouldn’t it be great!

  9. 9.

    Suzanne

    I’m telling you: get sunblock. Trader Joe’s makes a good cheap facial gel that’s a pretty good dupe for Supergoop.

  10. 10.

    Brachiator

    I barely keep up with movies, and I love movies.

    Used to love popular music, but I have no clue as to who is hot these days. I might look at who won Grammy awards later on, but I got no clue.

    Pop culture is for the young.

    Anybody famous nominated for Spoken Word material?

  11. 11.

    Alison Rose

    @Scout211: IT’S A POST-GROUNDHOG DAY MIRACLE!

    (My old boss and I did this as a running joke after one time she sarcastically called something a “Christmas miracle” a few days after Christmas. When I pointed that out, she said “Fine it’s a New Year’s Eve eve miracle” and then we continued that with whatever holiday of any kind was nearby in the calendar.)

  13. 13.

    RSA

    @Scout211:  GRAMMYS

    English is such a pain in the ass. I didn’t see the original, but I think Grammies would be fine. We should be less prescriptive for corporate names as long as there’s a historical justification. I think the next time I need to buy tissues, I’ll pick up some Kleenices.

  14. 14.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Alison Rose:

    IT’S A POST-GROUNDHOG DAY MIRACLE!

    Speaking of Groundhog Day, TIL that before the Bill Murray movie in 1993, the Punxsutawney Groundhog Day event only drew crowds of around 2,000

  15. 15.

    Scout211

    @RSA:  From wiki:

    The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences officially uses the plural Grammys

    Grammies are the nice ladies with grandkids.

    Signed,

    A local pedant. 😉

  16. 16.

    Scout211

    Oh no.  My lights are starting to flicker. It feels like the house is trying to blow down.  This wind is super scary.  😳

    Over 700,000 without power right now.  I think we may be next.

  17. 17.

    Elizabelle

    @Brachiator:  Michelle Obama won the Spoken Word category, and it was all famous people.  She beat out:

    Bernie Sanders

    Meryl Streep

    Rick Rubin

    William Shatner

    WTG Michelle!

  19. 19.

    kindness

    I figure come summer you won’t want to be out in the noonday sun if you can help it John.  One can acclimate to it over time.  I did.  The House knows the Senate will pass them a bill with both Ukraine, Israel and border funding in it.  They will then (try to) blame Democrats for Israel getting no funding.  That’s Republican real plans I figure.

  27. 27.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @John Cole:

    Not enough of you are paying attention to that sign for teeth whitening- I’m not crazy am I?

    You’re only as crazy as you feel

  29. 29.

    Leto

    @Brachiator: there’s this new guy performing on the Grammys. Think is name is Steve Wonder? Stevie? Something like that. I think he’s gonna go far.

    Edit: oh he’s performing with that contemporary Tony Bennet. Nice duo.

  33. 33.

    different-church-lady

    Every year I ask myself, “Will this be the one where I’ve heard of literally none of the winners?”

  36. 36.

    NutmegAgain

    I watched the video of Tracy Chapman singing. God, it slammed me back to about 1985. I was working at a domestic violence shelter in Boston. Tracy played for all of us who gathered to remember the people killed. She was not yet famous–right around the corner. Where did all the time go, indeed.

  37. 37.

    middlelee

    @John Cole: Actually, I thought it was funny and really did LOL. Of course, I’m really, really old and still have my teeth, unwhitened, thank you.

  39. 39.

    teezyskeezy

    The last or second to last grammys that won’t be coopted into the service of a fascist state. Oh I know, that’s doomerism. Okay, well here is the tangible issue: postcards and door to door…they are probably still necessary, but without a drastic adjustment of the democratic messaging machine to handle what is going on with social media, it’s not enough. It’s a situation that if you don’t get the people still reachable by those old school methods we won’t win, but on the other hand if we just continue to call twitter “not real life” or think that tik tok is “informing” people correctly and they’ll come out to vote for our team without a completely relentless response to the informational warfare being conducting against Dems and democracy on there, then the old school methods aren’t enough. And I don’t know how to solve that. If you political volunteering geniuses on here know how to reach anyone higher up and convey the importance of how they are failing, please do. If not, well, then my doomerism is justified. No one knows how to win. Great.  You are as much part of the problem as me. Welcome to the team.

  41. 41.

    Yutsano

    @NutmegAgain: ​I’m amazed they got her there at all. She’s been in near seclusion for years. I know she’s been thrust back into the spotlight because of Luke’s cover, but all I knew of her doing was interviews.

  42. 42.

    different-church-lady

    @teezyskeezy: ​
      I’ve heard quite a lot about Biden’s social media outreach strategies, but you appear to be under the impression they’re not doing anything?

  45. 45.

    teezyskeezy

    @different-church-lady: If there aren’t well funded Dem-sympathetic efforts to create networks of bots and sockpuppets relentlessly pushing the Dem message, then it’s not enough.   It’s cynical, but that’s how they are playing.  It’s alarming what is happening on twitter right now. Just in the last week it’s become a full on nazi haven majority owned by a real nazi.

  47. 47.

    BlueGuitarist

    @John Cole:

    That sign is creepy!
    Makes me reconsider telling people “voting is like brushing your teeth, if you don’t do it bad things will happen, it’s not enough, but in most places doesn’t take too long”

  48. 48.

    Yutsano

    @teezyskeezy: Nope. Not my job to talk you off the ledge you’re electing to put yourself on. You want to subscribe to doom and gloom you do you. I’m still looking at the next seven months and I still think we have the stronger hand.

    Also: get off that damn cross. It’s cold outside and we need the wood.

  53. 53.

    H.E.Wolf

    Isn’t it in the Mines of Moria that the travelers keep hearing “Doom, Doom” echoing from the deep? And we know how *that* ended.

    …Sauron lost. :-)

  54. 54.

    Citizen Dave

    Taylor won her 13th Grammy and used the occasion to announce a new album The Tortured Poets Department, out April 19.  Using the speech for marketing is quite impressive.

  55. 55.

    different-church-lady

    @teezyskeezy: ​
      There’s not a thing we can do about the corpse of Twitter. It’s dead and there’s nothing left but maggots. If that’s the only window you’re looking through, I suggest you get out of the house.

  59. 59.

    teezyskeezy

    @Yutsano: If you are just another rando then I guess I can’t really offer a reason for you to be less blindly smug. In that case you have no actual power, so your words are as useless as mine. Carry on if it makes you feel okay for another year. No reason to do otherwise, rationally speaking.

    But if you are involved and have some influence, then your attitude is the problem. This battle is being fought in the informational space on social media and that’s where it will be lost or won. If you are losing tik tok and X, you are losing.

  64. 64.

    H.E.Wolf

    @satby: ​I think your next birthday is when you’ll be really really old

     I had a very dear relative who said, when he turned 80, “I don’t feel old yet. Maybe I will when I’m 85.”
    😘

  65. 65.

    teezyskeezy

    @different-church-lady: Twitter is dead to me. I closed my account the day the deal was announced so it would go through the system before elon broke it.

    There’s still way too many people on there though. And some of them vote, or *could* vote.  The shit getting pumped into their brains is (ironically) rat poison now.

  66. 66.

    RevRick

    Went to a local restaurant to celebrate my 13.8 billion*years birthday with my wife, son, daughter and son in law and granddaughter. I had a 8oz filet mignon and afterwards we had a two layer chocolate cake at home. My son gave me a bottle of Ardbeg Uigeadail, single malt Scotch, which describes its flavor notes as treacle, bacon and bonfires. My daughter and son in law got us tickets to the Philadelphia Orchestra performance of Rachimanoff’s Piano Concerto #3 in the Conductor’s Section (right above and behind the orchestra), with reservations at a nearby hotel. My granddaughter got me the book “The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel”. 

    *In quark years, since my original stuff dates to the birth of the universe. In my present corporeal form I turn 75 tomorrow.

  67. 67.

    teezyskeezy

    @Yutsano: Try since 2016. Hey, you don’t have to downplay it. We can be honest.

     

    But if you mean like really recent negativity I don’t think I was being too negative the last week, so “a few days” doesn’t quite convey it.

  75. 75.

    jackmac

    Nice to see Joni Mitchell not only win a Grammy but also performing tonight. It’s a victory lap celebrating her continuing recovery from a brain aneurysm. And kudos to Brandi Carlile for helping Mitchell on the road back.

  77. 77.

    H.E.Wolf

    @NutmegAgain: ​I watched the video of Tracy Chapman singing. God, it slammed me back to about 1985. I was working at a domestic violence shelter in Boston. Tracy played for all of us who gathered to remember the people killed. She was not yet famous–right around the corner. Where did all the time go, indeed.

     What a wonderful (and poignant) story. And thank you for your work at the shelter.

  80. 80.

    coin operated

    @Yutsano: Like you, I knew she had been very secluded for a number of years. I don’t know what caused her to appear…but I’m damn happy she did it. Tracy appeared to really enjoy herself at that performance tonight…and she got the recognition she rightly deserves.

    Oh…and I always give Luke some credit for not fucking up the remake. That, actually, takes some real talent…doing a remake but leaving the original intact.

  81. 81.

    different-church-lady

    @Joelle: ​
      They should go through Grammy history, take back any that are even slightly questionable, and then just give them all to Joni.

  82. 82.

    Argiope

    @RevRick: Happy birthday, you force for good in the universe, you!  Glad your loved ones helped you celebrate in style.

  83. 83.

    RevRick

    @teezyskeezy: I’m still on X and it’s pretty easy to just get comments from people you follow and avoid the MAGA bilge. I occasionally venture into crazy town just to inform them that they are God-damned fascists. And then I leave.

  84. 84.

    teezyskeezy

    @Another Scott: I am, but I feel like it’s not quite enough. I know this isn’t a popular opinion but they need to get more cynical. It’s informational warfare.  What they are doing is too…boutique..small batch?  Small batch doesn’t cut it in bot/sockpuppet info warfare.

  88. 88.

    teezyskeezy

    @RevRick: Okay, it’s easy to isolate yourselve from the masses, but what are “normies” doing? We just block and cut ourselves off from what others are doing, but maybe a lot of people are watching all these bots and sockpuppets talk and they think, “the biggest issue right now is DUR BORDER” They think elon might be on to something. they think biden is personally sanctioning dead children in gaza. That shit is working.

    It really is.

  91. 91.

    Jay

    @different-church-lady:

    nope. Some people who win, don’t get sales until after they win their Grammy. It’s more about whom Music Industry People are listening to and influenced by. REM for example. Small venue band, (kick ass) selling tapes out of the trunk of their car and print shop merch, not on AM or FM except for college radio, after their Grammy win, boom.

  96. 96.

    teezyskeezy

    @different-church-lady: Actually, I’m on team “wrestle the pigs.” Clearly. Yeah, I’m on team stancil, and he does say it better than me. You block, you isolate, you ignore…but everyone else watches these nazi fucks talk to each other and make consensus and…it grows.

    You cannot get sucked into their framings but when no one is making a visible effort to say, “your ideas are shitty and stupid and wrong” normies watch and think the topic is at least legit to discuss…and it’s downhill from there.

     

    But to make that visible effort, you need dedicated accounts, ie, sockpuppets, and maybe even bots. You gotta be relentless. Don’t “wrestle the pig.” make new pigs they cant wrestle (ie, incessant tenacious accounts that are pigs for our ideas).

  97. 97.

    wjca

    @Jay: Happy 13.8 billion years.

    I hope that were no candles.

    Well, since the sun alone is something like 3 x 10^27 candle power, he’s covered for a while yet.

  100. 100.

    different-church-lady

    @teezyskeezy: ​
    So, what, Joe unleashes the bots on X and Elon just… goes along with that? Dude has his whole ass on the scales, never mind his thumb.

  106. 106.

    teezyskeezy

    @different-church-lady: That’s why I’m a doomer. Not only do I think you might be right, but I see why we’ll never know because no one will try to test it.  Republicans pull every fucking lever. 100s of em. one or two work. They run with the ones that work.  We don’t even pull one.

    And I admit, I can’t do it. I’d be a worse political strategist than elmo (the muppet not the nazi). but what am I paying for? It sucks.  I’d like them to hear that.

  107. 107.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @RevRick: Same. I’m still on Twitter because it’s only place where some of the best sources for trans-related news are. (No, they’re not on other social media platforms.)

    Through frequent liking of stuff I do want to see, and insta-blocking Nazis, trolls, etc  so far my feed is pretty sewage-free. And of course there’s lists.

    <hunkers down in anticipation of all the lectures about how I’m a horrible person for still using Twitter>

    And Happy Birthday! We’re all the candles visible from space?

  109. 109.

    RevRick

    @teezyskeezy: Which is why I occasionally venture into their turf and wield a can of whoop ass on their nonsense. But I don’t get caught up in their Gish Gallops.

  114. 114.

    wjca

    @Sister Golden Bear: <hunkers down in anticipation of all the lectures about how I’m a horrible person for still using Twitter>

    As long as you’re using it, and not letting it use you, where’s the problem?

    I note that Adam is finding a lot of his info on the War in Ukraine on twitter.  So it definitely does have its uses.

  117. 117.

    different-church-lady

    @Sister Golden Bear: ​  I think a large percentage of us have caught up to the unfortunate circumstance of the trans community being trapped in that silo. And I’d hope us regulars would know enough not to browbeat.
    The Corey Doctorow lecture Mister Mix pointed to in an earlier thread provides some insight — to paraphrase, media platforms use network effects to make everyone a prisoner, then shit everything over. But nobody moves until everyone moves. And as of the moment nobody knows where to move to.
    My hope is the next place is a much better, safer place. If it’s just another Twitter, then the same trap is going to happen.​

  118. 118.

    Another Scott

    @teezyskeezy: Even if what you say is a good approach, I think that only 0.01% of the readers here know how to set up bots and know what to do when they’re blocked to set up more.

    https://democrats.org/share/

    are the people you need to be talking to, I think. There are only so many hours in the day, and each of us does what we can and what interests us.

    I don’t think a how do you do, fellow kids approach by a bunch of blog commenters would go over too well, myself.

    (I don’t have an account on FB / IG / TT / X and am not about to start.)

    YMMV. ;-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  120. 120.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @teezyskeezy: Repeat after me: “Twitter is not real life. Twitter is not real life.”

    ”Normies” aren’t on Twitter any more than they hang out on BJ. Just like TERFs and leftist purity ponies, MAGAt extremely vocal but small in actual numbers  it’s worth remembering there’s more trans people in the U.S. than Fox viewers—and us trans people are <1 percent of the population

  127. 127.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @TBone:

    Wow, Sam Harris is actually making good points in that one tweet Elon quoted:

    Harris said that “propagandists like Tucker Carlson are making the Border Crisis look worse than it really is for Biden”

    I remember he went off the deep end for awhile with Islamophobia. A lot of the New Atheists did

  130. 130.

    teezyskeezy

    @Sister Golden Bear: Collectively, social media is where most gen z get their news, so…it matters. Everyone over 35 who is liberal…Biden’s gonna get their vote. That might be *barely* enough, but it might not be. Gen Z is lost if you don’t have the social media game locked. That’s where Biden, the Dems, and democracy itself are losing.

  136. 136.

    RevRick

    @Yutsano: Jeopardy. I mentally high five myself when I say the answer that none of the three contestants can answer. Or I get final Jeopardy right. But I know that if I were up on the stage, I’d embarrass myself.

  137. 137.

    wjca

    @Sister Golden Bear: Some jackals here beg to differ and haven’t been shy about saying so.

    There are purists on any subject that comes up.  People here (mostly) deplore the far left purists.  Reconizing that one is also a purist, albeit on some other subject, can be quite difficult.

  138. 138.

    TBone

    Oh WOW that Billy Joel performance was amazing 😍 first time in 30 years, he’s still got every bit of it!

  142. 142.

    Yutsano

    @gwangung: ​This is someone trying to make a problem for one into a problem for the collective. I’m not getting out of the boat for his fucking mangoes.

  146. 146.

    RevRick

    @Martin: My aunt grew up in Reynoldsville, and her niece and nephew were once crowned queen and king of the Punxsutawney groundhog festival.
    Here in Eastern Pennsylvania there are still a few Grundsau Lodges where they celebrate the day telling PA Dutch jokes and eating pork and sauerkraut with a side of mashed potatoes, corn and green beans. And hot bacon dressing on iceberg lettuce.

  147. 147.

    Jackie

    And Taylor wins the finale: Album of the Year!

    And to all her RWNJ haters: May her boyfriend celebrate a Super Bowl win a week from tonight!

  149. 149.

    VFX Lurker

    Anecdotes about what the “normies” think in my sphere:

    • My mom in Michigan, who does not read about politics every day: appalled and repulsed by Republicans; determined to vote for Joe Biden and all Democrats on the ballot.
    • My GenX white male colleague uninterested in voting or politics until a few years ago: appalled and repulsed by Republicans; now votes for Democrats; determined to vote for Joe Biden and all Democrats on the ballot.
    • Another GenX white male colleague in Pennsylvania who has voted regularly for years, but would much rather discuss the merits of Star Wars vs Star Trek: currently rage-posting anti-MAGA content on Facebook. He will vote for Biden and the Democrats.
  150. 150.

    karen marie

    @NutmegAgain: Didn’t watch the grammys but I did watch a youtube of Chapman singing Fast Car at Wembley Stadium in ’88. It was so sweet. She seemed a bit nervous. I’m very happy she went on to have great success.

  151. 151.

    TBone

    @Jackie: I am looking forward to the Tortured Poets Department.  With glee and great anticipation.  And I’m not even a real Swiftie.  Just an amateur.

  152. 152.

    Jackie

    @TBone: I’m a Swiftie’s mom and gramma. A Swiftie by default via football and the Deplorables hatred for her! 😂

    Is it Swifty or Swiftie?🤷🏼‍♀️

  157. 157.

    Eolirin

    @teezyskeezy: Gen Z is on TikTok and Insta far more than Twitter, and the Biden campaign is doing a ton of outreach to influencers on those platforms.

    But people in general are retreating from the open conversation like nature of things like Twitter and increasingly interacting with social media primarily through private groups chat with friends and family. Bots are increasingly less of an issue than fake news sites, Russian troll farms pumping out memes that spread through actual humans, and crafted soundbites meant to be shared by right wing lunatics.

    And we can’t play that game. The democratic machine cannot create blatant propaganda and push fabricated stories across social media without it being political suicide. The media environment is slanted in such a way that something that isn’t a story for Republicans would be an incessant story that destroys the party if done by Democrats.

    So the Democrats are currently investing in relational organizing strategies to counteract this instead, which is about the best that can be done.

  159. 159.

    Matt McIrvin

    @teezyskeezy: I can’t speak to anything happening on TikTok, but the youths mostly do not use Twitter/X and really haven’t for years, even before Musk turned it into a fascist cesspit. It had outsize influence mostly because political media types used it a lot, not because the masses did.

  161. 161.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @Jay: Hmmm. Can’t comments on specifics without seeing their methodology, but other studies say that TikTok and Instagram are Gen Z’s social media of choice. Facebook is what their parent use. They may have FB accounts, but they don’t use them that much.

  162. 162.

    Robert A Savell

    Christ, noone else here to  whoop for Boy Genius’ three grammys ?!!!!! Just throw some dirt over us. :-[

  163. 163.

    hitchhiker

    Haven’t paid attention to the Grammys in many years, but decided to watch tonight, if only to see Joni Mitchell, whom I’d heard would be there.

    Holy crap, what a wonderfully, shockingly good show! Got to see a great cover of Proud Mary (one of my favorite songs to dance to), plus Fast Car delivered with such sweet joy on the face of Tracy Chapman, plus Brandi Carlisle glowing with pride as she introduced Joni Mitchell and then sat down and played with her, plus Joni herself — singing Both Sides Now in her aging deep voice with a cane in her hand, surrounded by musicians.

    The vibe was women, women, women, cheering for each other and just bringing plain respect into my living room. It felt like I’d somehow stumbled into the before times, when we all knew how to hang out and be happy. I don’t do X these days, but threads was AWASH in giddiness, and not really because of anything to do with Taylor Swift. It was more like — hey, these are really good songs and they remind me of my former life, and it’s so healthy to see aging women get admired in this way.

    Knocked all the way out.

  165. 165.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @teezyskeezy:

    I think you are a bit too much over the top and are going to burn out in a month or two. That and everyone here is going to tune you out because you are in constant panic about something that you and most other people have no control over; negative opinions, real or fake.

    Xshitter is one place on the internet. One place and yet you act as if it is THE ONLY place. I read Xshitter and others (Bsky, Mastodon and such) and I see one hell of a lot of pushback against the bullshit that the fascists are feeding the public. I see a lot of shots being taken right back at the criminals on the right and they are hitting them hard. I see what the Biden campaign is doing and think it’s good stuff. Go volunteer, assist where you think it helps and quit being so fucking negative, as if only you can see the future and we are just stupid fucks who won’t listen to YOU.

    I hear you and I disagree with you. I’ll also add that I’m already sick of your whining. I’m out…

  166. 166.

    sab

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: Guy knows a trick of how to get around the pie filter. Caps v lower case. Block the caps nym then the lower case nym gets through. Uncblock the caps then block the lower case caps and the upper case caps nym gets through.

    Guy has been using that tonight.

  173. 173.

    Paul in KY

    @Yutsano: Mr. Combs is a proud Kentucky boy. With him and Tyler Childers and Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson and Cage the Elephant and My Morning Jacket and Black Stone Cherry and many other fine artists, I think we punch above our weight musically!

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