Elvis Costello covering Neil Young on Jimmy Fallon’s show last night.
https://youtu.be/f3vNCuC-mWw
Guess now’s a good time to hear Neil’s album, released when Costello was 14.
Why wasn’t Elvis on Colbert’s show? They’ve been best buds for ages. Oh, right. Joe Walsh is playing over there this week.
Popular historian and well-known narrator David McCullough has died. Having a reputation for fairness and honesty comparable to that of Walter Cronkite, how did McCullough view Trump? These comments are from 2017.
In the video Trump is heard saying, “People don’t ask that question. Why was there the Civil War?” That wasn’t a rhetorical question. Trump literally believed his perception as being the reality. Want another example? “Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” What an unmitigated moron. An unbounded ego spewing the nonsense of a tiny, simple mind.
Another reason for me to not regret ending my home delivery subscription to the print edition of The Boston Globe. This full-page ad was in Sunday’s paper.
The ad was paid for by Boston power player Arthur Winn, who is known for, among other things…
Boston developer Arthur Winn fined $100,000 for making illegal campaign contributions — But he’s spared jail time by federal judge
https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2012/01/31/boston-developer-arthur-winn-fined-100000-for-making-illegal-campaign-contributions/
Suffolk DA Rachael Rollins quietly drops intimidation case against wealthy developer
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/05/08/suffolk-rachael-rollins-quietly-drops-intimidation-case-against-wealthy-developer/QIByPjU7C0R6tswPLb2PwM/story.html
In the first case, Winn had to pay a hundred grand. In the second case, he must have had one of these cards:
The subject of Winn’s ad is George Regan, a well-connected Boston name in public relations.
I was disappointed to see the Globe’s Business Section team was in attendance.
“… a quartet of The Boston Globe staff: Business reporter Jon Chesto, and columnists Shirley Leung, Joan Vennochi, and Larry Edelman.”
It’s one thing to hold a lavish private event. It’s another to publicly flaunt the wealth and influence behind it. Especially with the MBTA Orange Line being shut down for an entire month, making life more difficult for people who don’t have have a lot of money, or friends in high places. You’d think somebody in public relations would have thought of that.
I refer you back to this post from about a month ago.
The Toyota dealership is at it again, trying to get my 2017 Camry XLE. There’s another desperate plea from the dealership’s general manager, who must be finding himself in further embarrassing situations.
Whoever actually wrote this, it is definitely hand-written, with some of the ink smudged elsewhere on the shiny business card. What gets me is how it’s worded as if my car — that I bought new from them for cash — has been offered to someone else.
Whatever the truth is behind the sales pitch, I don’t appreciate the “boiler room” pressure. But I’m betting he’ll be glad I refused his unsolicited offers. His lots could soon be filled with repossessed vehicles.
One of the few remaining vestiges of the once-mighty Digital Equipment Corporation is about to fall.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/30/intel_dec_massachusetts_demolished/
In 1986, Fortune magazine named DEC founder and CEO Ken Olsen as America’s most successful entrepreneur.
https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/10/27/68216/
It would have been laughable in 1986 to suggest that within five years Olsen would be forced out of the company he began in 1957, but that was exactly what happened. By 1996 the end of DEC, the former Massachusetts economic powerhouse, was in sight, after 40 years in business.
https://digital.com/digital-equipment-corporation/
In 1991 there was a recession that hit Massachusetts particularly hard. Every Massachusetts minicomputer company quickly declined, as the PC revolution took over. DEC, along with Data General, Prime, Wang, and Apollo all disappeared, but the Internet revolution came in just as quickly in 1995, and the economy turned around.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6777978
P.S. Allison Acoustics was another Massachusetts business that went under during the recession that began in ’91, when Roy Allison’s bank pulled his line of credit.
Conservative Christians think scientists aren’t religious, but look at the work they’re putting into studying just part of Genesis 1:1!
