Well, that's hardly true. There are really old Nissans on the road, I have one myself. Can't afford to replace it at the moment.

Oh, I do contact them. But it's shouting into a vacuum. They are 100% maga and are not remotely swayed by their constituents' concerns, especially if those concerns seem "woke" or empathetic or not sufficiently fascist.

When your senators are Blackburn and Hagerty, and your rep is Andy Ogles, there's not a lot of incentive to go to the trouble.

I'm in TN where our senators are Sen Hackerty and Sen Mindbogglingly Stupid, both Republican. They've already got their marching orders from the Heritage Foundation, anything I say to them is wasted breath. I wish it weren't so.

The Beatles broke a very longstanding mold and established that a band could write and record their own songs. The wave of successful British Invasion bands, including the Kinks, followed this model. The talented Davies brothers may well have still had music careers, but different.

Happy birthday! You're right about the mighty Kinks, but they wouldn't have ever happened without the Beatles. The Byrds were 2nd generation, also wouldn't have happened without the Beatles and Bob Dylan.

I know that's the conventional wisdom, but it's not always like that. My first marriage ended in divorce, and we remain friendly to this day, almost 50 years later. We had two kids, and worked hard to make it not a nightmare for their sakes.

So far so good in Melbourne

Not quite, I'd say. That brain should be less convoluted, much smoother

This info seems accurate only if "places of interest" is defined as a typical urban shopping district. The area in which I live has hiking trails and paths that run through woods and along a river, and quite frankly, that's the place of interest for me. It takes me 3 minutes to get there.

All of them! But if I have to choose, #1.

This will be followed by all the roofing companies and landscaping companies needing the same exemption. Nobody will be getting new roofs or their yards maintained if the deportations take place.

Animal House is beyond AI's assimilation capabilities, evidently. Absurdist satire and parody may be the hardest nut for AI to crack.

Knew you'd show up here! Howdy backatcha! Hope you're feeling better and the hyperbaric chamber does great things for you.