This is not a diss on the inductees. Love Zevon, White Stripes, etc. Speaking of, a slight variation on Icky Thump. Icky Trump: Nothin better to do, So you can be a pimp and a prostitute too ...

The visual befits a Stephen King novel.

And this is one more example of how the English language is exhausted and dessicated. Conservative does not mean conservative, wealth does not mean abundance, war-ravaged does not mean Portland, politics are not sports metaphors...

My father was a self-employed auto machinist. In the late 1970s, when I was a kid, the majority of his work came from VW Bugs. I remember this, and the surplus of VW engine parts he had then. I have no idea what happened to it all, but I knew a VW engine down to the last washer, in spite of myself.

This one from Oklahoma is emblazoned with bullshit in its heading. Peace on the Plains (1834). Note the 1st Lt. mentioned. One Jefferson Davis.

True. Those shows, White Lotus, etc. while feigning skewering, in reality produce envy and illusive dreams of trading places. No La règle du jeu in the US...It may be hopeless.

And here's one from the Texas panhandle that pits African-Americans against Native Americans. First line of last paragraph is the key sentence.

Also the social scientists - Haidt, et al. - who portray the U.S. political landscape as polarized: kindly fuck off.

One party and its propaganda outlets portray a many-voiced pluralistic democracy as a monolithic monster.

This is not polarization. This is authoritarian propaganda.

But the sunrise was sublime.

I would love to be at Ojo Caliente. Flat tire, flat spare. Spent night with that image as my view. Here's hoping I get the tire on this morning.