My Turn For Thoughts On Service

It seems Carl las opened up quite the can of worms talking about the shoddy service he receives on a regular basis in Chicago.   First off, Carl needs to move to Racine or Valparaiso and start commuting every day so he can begin to enjoy the fruits of living rural.   Jokes aside, I do have some relevant thoughts.

I agree with Ginny in her post on the subject on the red/blue states.

I tend to agree with the comments about red state/blue state divisions, though clearly it is  often a matter of rural/urban and mompop/corporate.

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Love Songs, Continued…

Lex and I  are having  a friendly back and forth on love songs, and we have been concentrating mostly on rock.   I recently introduced a little  ambiguity into the discussion, and  Lex  brought out  some (what used to be called) alternative rock in his last post.   Some big guns have been pulled out recently, with Lou Reed and REM entering the discussions.

Not only will I pull out another big gun in this post, I will introduce us to a completely new genre of music as related to love songs –  while pulling myself out of the ambiguous and bringing the discussion  into the obvious.

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