If I had known then what I know now, I'd have stopped you from using that time machine.

Gotta admit, I'm really not in the mood to write at the moment.  I'll see if I can put on some headlines but unless something jumps out at me, I don't have much to say.

POLICE OFFICER KILLED – NUMEROUS SHOTS FIRED – SEVERAL INJURED – Shooting Outside Pentagon at Metro Station …Update: Pentagon Reopened – Suspect Shot Dead
August 3, 2021

□ [“Hammer Thrower Gwen Berry Fails to Medal at Olympics After Turning Her Back on American Flag – Finishes 11th Place Out of 12 Competitors"]

Typical leftists don't spend a lot of time practicing to develop actual talent, that's why they're so easy to replace.

□ [“Sky News: 'Smart people are being silenced so stupid people won’t be offended.'"]

That would explain a lot.  Smart people spend more time thinking than most and thinking is a good way to not be ruled by emotion.

□ [“NIH Director Francis Collins: 'It May Sound Weird' But Parents Should Wear Masks at Home in Front of Their Unvaccinated Kids"]

The kids are government property, their parents are not.  There was a civil war about who owns you and then and now, Democrats' response was "we do."

□ [“Cuomo Denies Sexual Harassment Allegations, Refuses to Resign"]

He can do whatever he wants and get away with it, he's in power.  It's not like Democrats have to actually live up to their own standards, they just send men with guns against people who disobey.

Dem NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Sexually Harassed Multiple Women, Violated Federal and State Law: AG Letitia James
August 3, 2021

Anthony Fauci Claims With COVID There Are No More Individual Rights
August 1, 2021

600 Arrests, 1 Dead, Women and Children Beaten in the Street at Berlin Anti-Lockdown Protest
August 3, 2021

UN-Funded Palestinian Teachers Promote Antisemitism, Glorify Jihad Terrorism
August 3, 2021

Inflation is About to Cook California’s Bacon as New Rules Kick-In
August 3, 2021

Given my odd interest in them these days, I was surprised to hear Guns'n'Roses did a concert last weekend.  Even more surprising, they played in the US.  I guess they're starting a tour now.  Much less surprising, the set list barely changed.

The biggest surprise is that they didn't include "Patience."  Of any song to drop, they pick that one?  The only song from Lies they played was "You're Crazy," the slow version of a song we'd heard on Appetite.  At least one could say Guns'n'Roses play a lot of songs in concert, even if they're the same ones over and over, but this time they didn't even do that.  21 songs total, counting adding Iggy and the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" so Duff could sing a cover.  That was the only addition, a song that's over half-a-century old.

19 of the 21 songs, 20 if you count Duff getting to sing a cover, were in the exact same order as their last concert, January 31, 2020.  Eight songs, almost 40 percent, were from Appetite.  Eight songs were from the Illusion albums.  I still can't believe they dropped "Patience."  It's not my favorite G'n'R song but it's one of their most classic, the single they released when they were the hottest band in the world.

[What is my favorite?  I dunno but I'm surprised to note that I thought of "Rocket Queen" before I remembered "Welcome to the Jungle."]

Counting another Duff cover song, they played 15 of the 17 songs from their April 1, 2016 reunion which didn't include "Patience" either, odd.  At least that has a slight excuse, it was a shorter concert so something has to get cut out.

Apparently they're playing in Boston tonight.  If they show up in time, they're probably playing right now, or at least opening act Wolfgang Van Halen.  Wonder if they'll do any "new" songs this time.  No, they probably won't.  But Slash's next album should be out in several months.