I reached a milestone today, hitting 4 million viewers: Since my first blog on 29April2008, there have been 6792 postings.  Thus, an average of close to 600 readers/day.  221 countries have visited this site. Actually, in October of 2020 I reached the limit of how many labels I could use, so in parallel I initiated a  different location , which began accumulating another set of viewers, and this blog is up to 172,000 viewers.  So you have an option to read this second site, which has the same content, but looks different.  One of the photos I used in that initial  10October2020 posting  was of Phil Spector.  Why?  My #80 favorite song was featured,  To Know Him is to Love Him , and he started performing by writing that song and is one of the three Teddy Bears.  Then he later developed his wall of sound background music for which he is famous, married Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes and became mad, as in crazy.  Incidentall...

Bad day for President Donald Trump yesterday, but today is looking a little better. Well, it started well this morning, for the Dow Jones jumped more than a thousand points during the first hour, but, like the S&P and Nasdaq, they all fell for the day into deep negative territory.   At least it's not another major wipeout today . The new wave of Trump tariffs will become effective at midnight.  More than 80 countries have indicated a desire to negotiate.  China remains defiant. Talks will begin this weekend with Iran about their nuclear program . The Supreme Court is more and more ruling to support most of Trump's deportation and federal employee firing matters . As you know, 18-year old Barron Trump is at New York University, and is 6'7" tall.   Has a swarm of protective secret service agents dressed like students, and even follow him into a bathroom. Is enrolled in the Stern School of Business.   While of course still a freshman, this school cost...

Before reaching back to my past on nostalgia Tuesday, first a lot of news items for today.  I'll mostly hint at the topics, so you can click on the links to follow up in detail. The biggest of all of them is the matter of democracy vs dictatorship.  The headline of the day: Roberts rejects Trump’s call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans Finally, Chief Justice John Roberts showed some backbone on the matter of President Trump's call for impeachment of all judges who ruled against him. This  deportation case  now appears to be the issue. How important is this comeuppance?  Very, for if Trump continues to do as he pleases, he becomes a dictator. Trump is already in control of two parts of our government, his White House and the U.S. Congress.  The third leg is the Supreme Court. However, the Supreme Court has no enforcement capabilities.   The Supreme Court, while having the power to interpret laws and the Constitution, lack...