Today is Sunday, June 19, 2022. It is the Juneteenth holiday, although the designated Federal holiday will be tomorrow on Monday, June 20. Federal holidays are almost always on Mondays to give people an extra day for a long weekend. There are a bunch of events today celebrating the day, […]
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One hot day at the St. Louis Arch, Gateway to the West, I am playing my guitar and petitioning. I will be doing this until August 1. Yes, I will answer your questions about my platform. What I feel about the issues. What I want to get done with policy […]
As I have driven to the Gateway Arch these many months, today I drove this morning into the city. The St. Louis downtown streets are all ripped up, so it’s not surprising that the street near Kiener plaza was closed due to the on-going construction. Whole blocks of prime downtown […]
One year ago, I wrote in this blog, “I am trying very hard not to “sell you tickets to the ghost train”. This train is real.” Yes, this train is real, but the quote is apt. The song I sing at the Gateway Arch “Freedom Train” recounts American History from […]
vguitar -A 128:0 -S –chord=”Dexaxg2b1h1″ –chord=”Ge3a2h1″ -q “d1d1d1d1ud1ud1” –bpm=200 128:0 is the midi synthesizer channel, -S specifies running in strum mode, two chords specified D and G, the strum sequence by -q, and at 200 beats per minute. So, for the D chord, e and a strings are muted, g […]
Hi, From your New York Times Github database, for the State of Missouri, the data for May 12, 2022 confuses me. [“2022-05-11”,1449743,20555], [“2022-05-12”,1450282,20554], [“2022-05-13”,1453876,20586] I see that 20,554 Missourians are reported dead on the 12th, while 20,555 are reported dead on the 11th. The difference of one dead does not […]
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair was published in 1906. Here is what babies and children were fed, There were many such dangers, in which the odds were all against them. Their children were not as well as they had been at home; but how could they know that there was […]
The technology of censorship starts with an automated and/or manual scanning of speech segments. This can be a textual scanning or spoken speech. Then, the text and/or spoken words are then disambiguated, parsed into some level of meaning. At the simplest level, meaning can be an automated lookup of keywords […]
Gamblers are always trying to beat the house. Sometimes they succeed. Almost always their strategies are based on being unpredictable, and in games like poker, bluffing. You can have a lousy hand, but if you bluff you can win big. The house always plays predictably. That is the winning strategy. […]
You may have seen my performances of Merle Haggard’s “Here comes the Freedom Train” in Saint Louis at the Gateway Arch National Park. Most of what I sing is right from the original song, but I am adding an additional verse for 2022: [Verse] In 22, the Russians struck, Zelenskyy […]
After I recorded “Four Dead in Ohio”, a friend informed me that Neil Young was homophobic. I have always held Neil Young in high regard, a rock stars that sent a real message — anti-war, rock for a better world, etc., etc., etc. I didn’t believe that this could be […]