Despite my advanced age, I am considering starting another band. It would be my fifth band, but my first in more than 20 years. Talking to my old guitar player about it, since I wouldn't want to do another band without him. We'll see what happens. If a new band results, I'm sure we can look forward to this:
OK, so I went away for, oh, nearly 3-1/2 years. Sorry about that. Anyway, I decided I should come back and say stuff. As always, a little bit of everything. The original purpose of this blog was to write about the world of temporary contract attorneys, who work on the document review phase of all different kinds of cases. We used to work in big rooms with dozens, even hundreds of attorneys. We called it Temp Town. As with so many other people and businesses, Temp Town died in the COVID-19 panic. Law firms and agencies were forced to do what neither of them wanted to do -- let temps work from home. Agencies didn't want to do it because they made money from charging law firms to rent review space and the necessary equipment, services, etc. for the temps to do the document review work the law firms needed done. Law firms didn't want to do it because -- correctly, in my opinion - they didn't trust temps to be diligent without law firm supervising attorneys literally looking over their shoulders. Well, C-19 gave them no choice. We went off to work at home, and we are never going back. The agencies decided they love it because they no longer have to maintain the facilities for temps to perform document review and they are able to pay WAY less than they used to. Life is good for agencies, not so much for temps. Law firms like it because the agencies and their temps cost them less than before. Everybody is happy except the temps.
In any event, Temp Town as it used to exist, with a numerous temps in the same place with a bunch of fucking whack jobs providing entertainment, is long gone. AI is slowly but surely doing away with the need for temps in most situations, but we aren't there yet. However, projects are shorter and use fewer people. Making enough money to survive is more of a struggle than ever. Nonetheless, I probably won't write about Temp Town much anymore.
But I plan to write anyway. I will write about what interests me, regardless of topic. Buckle up, kids. No telling what comes next. But the bitch is back. Cue the Elton John song, because modern copyright protections prevent me from inserting the video.
Joe Biden, president of the United States, has a two-year-old granddaughter in Arkansas that he pretends does not exist, fathered by the crack whore of a son he pretends is a paragon of virtue. Hunter Biden, Joe's crack whore son, claims to not remember the encounter with the mother of his daughter. A judge in Arkansas doesn't care, having ruled in a family court case that, based on DNA, Hunter is the father. Joe Biden, who can't even remember how many grandchildren he has, won't even admit this little girl is one of them.
The pastor here is Polish, and he know's what he's talking about, having lived under communism and, no doubt, his parents lived under Nazi occupation. Hats off to this guy:
So Gropey Joe gave a speech last night and let us know that in a few weeks the goverment would be giving us instructions on "what you can and cannot do" after you get vaccinated for the Wu-flu. With all due respect the the president or whoever is pulling his strings, fuck you. The last thing I'm waiting for or paying any attention to is instructions from the government on what I can and cannot do.
Joe Biden*, who on Wednesday will be inaugurated as president of the United States, decided not to wait to take office to fuck up. In fact, he is going for a two-fer. He will be harming our energy independence and pissing off one of our closest allies, all at the same time:
U.S. president-elect Joe Biden has indicated plans to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline permit via executive action on his first day in office, sources confirmed to CBC News on Sunday.
A purported briefing note from the Biden transition team mentioning the plan was widely circulated over the weekend after being shared by the incoming president's team with U.S. stakeholders.
The words "Rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit" appear on a list of executive actions supposedly scheduled for Day 1 of Biden's presidency.
The list shown to stakeholders is a lengthier version of a list already reported in the media based on a memo released publicly over the weekend by Biden's chief of staff Ronald Klain. That publicly reported memo from Klain did not mention Keystone XL, but cautioned that the memo was not a complete list of planned actions.
Canadian officials already are asking the Biden team not to do this. He talks big about rebuilding our relationships with allies, but I don't think we're going to like the "allies" he wants to rebuild relationships with. (Hint: Iran.) He clearly doesn't give a fuck about Canada if he does this.
