Friday Finale

 - The young fella booted from class for sporting a Gadsden flag has mostly won…as the ‘school’ reversed its policy of banning symbols of Revolutionary War American patriotism 

- Canada has issued a travel advisory warning anyone not heterosexual and following genetic gender behaviors to avoid traveling to the US. Their decision was as easy as Eh-B-C.

- I find it incredible that certain businesses will not serve on duty law enforcement officers, and basically prohibit them from entering their establishments while armed.  You’d think a) bad guys would hit this places with some regularity and b) 911 services would have these places tagged as “do not respond.” Lord knows I will never, under any circumstance, patronize these people

- An Odessa woman was arrested for trying to steal items from (where else) Walmart. She then stole a motorized buggy to make her getaway. Needless to say she was caught pretty easily and at last look was still cooling her jets in the Ector County jail. Needless to say our region is getting measurably dumber by the hour. Pretty soon anyone that can recognize their own name 3 out of 5 times will be the norm

-  Make sure you switch to felt Stetsons (if you follow that sort of thing) Monday…I *likely* will on days under 95.

- Imagine the damage done to our nation, our citizens, our very existence, if lil joe biden had not been on vacation 40% of his time in office.

- Whether it is government misconduct, personal lives, professional decisions, whatever: when we keep re-examining what other people did or didn't do, there is no time left to contemplate what we could do going forward.

- Mann oh Mann, the jokes...In a forgotten part of a forgotten ocean lies an island which is best known for its hospital and rehabilitation facility for raptors. Also of note in the area is the rare species of dolphins that live forever. The eagles at the facility are excellent craftsbirds, producing various items that are highly prized by the dolphins. An enterprising Colobus monkey on the island has started a business delivering the items. One day she runs across a sleeping lion on jungle path. She gingerly steps over the lion to continue her delivery. Immediately a highway patrolman steps out of the jungle and gives her a ticket for transporting ill eagle goods over a staid lion for immortal porpoises. (Thanks Gordie Tapp)

- An ongoing debate on a guitarist oriented website asks are musicians considered artists.  In general I don’t believe so but there are exceptions. Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel, just to name a couple. What do we expect from a profession that calls its endeavor ‘play?’

Doctors, lawyers have businesses known as practices, but when a guitarist practices it usually means he’s trying to get better at his profession. The overwhelming majority or guitarists don’t do so for income, and there’s always someone who thinks they can do it better (because there is)

- People moving here for *whatever* reason should remember they are refugees, not missionaries. If you want to bring the word of where you were with you, then stay there…and quit screwing up everything here. Doesn’t matter if you come here from Guatemala, California, or China, leave that shit there or don’t bother.

- Interesting discussion: do people on the dance floor really care that someone is playing a $2500 guitar, custom built amp, and so on, or do they care the guitar parts are good are tasteful, genre appropriate, in tune, and played with some actual feeling?

- See you next week…in September…taking Labor Day off, so should you