52 Replies to “May 1, 2026: Reader Tips”

  2. Can you even IMAGINE a southern fried rock band showing up in Oakland, CA today … at the now vacant Oakland Coliseum in the crime tidden corridor of Hegenberger Rd and unfurling a GIANT stars and bars Confederate flag?
    https://youtu.be/vza3CSEPLAo?si=Cj-mEQi_mhgvXvGl

    Few of those 50,000 white kids would get out of there alive today …

    Just ponder how angry, intolerant, and petty we have become as a culture. Everyone’s a bitter, wretched, scold. And what? Coachella has replaced Days on The Green? Puhleeze. What a JOKE. The kids are all taking selfies and posting them to their influencer blogs. Compare and contrast the unbridled joy and togetherness of MY PEOPLE in 1977. Pure joy and brotherhood.

    2. No guitar performances, past or present, will ever compare to Allen Collins, Gary Rossington, and Steve Gaines jamming together flawlessly like their lives depended on it.

      1. It’s hard to look away, eh? I just love how the crowd goes from a mellow groove to… to just NUTS at the guitar solo. No one on their phones … just digging the groove.

    1. As someone who ‘enjoyed’ avowed communist Ron Dellums as my House Rep. for 13 terms … here in my (formerly) conservative suburban ‘white’ bedroom community that was included in Oakland’s Congressional District … I know a thing or two about gerrymandering.

      Dellums even opened a storefront ‘office’ (never inhabited) on our Main Street … just to rub it in our faces … that our votes were all for naught.

  5. Lynyrd Skynyrd. I still get a case of the sads whenever I think of that 78 plane crash. One More From the Road is hands down my favorite album of all time. This July will mark the 50th anniversary of its recording at Atlanta’s Fox Theater. Inexplicably, no video exists of the masterful performance, which also gives me a case of the sads 🙁

    See also this fantastic performance with two members of the Outlaws:

    Lynyrd Skynyrd – T For Texas – 3/7/1976 – Winterland (Official)

    https://youtu.be/UVtI_NllBz8?si=QFfuzwG_R7M14Vv9

    1. I admit to getting a bit choked up seeing Ronnie Van Zant at the peak of his powers and the band he so determinedly created performing at the very top of the music world … drawing 50k fans to sold out stadium shows … only to be lost forever just a few months later.

      I don’t consider him an exceptionally gifted singer … but his performances above were as good as rock vocals get. There’s a sincerity to his performance that can’t be faked.

      And the more I read about this poor kid from bumfkcu FL who worked in an auto parts store … the more I admire him … his band mates sure hold him in high regard. He was a tough taskmaster and brilliant songwriter who drove the band’s work with discipline and a work ethic that dovetails perfectly with the 10k hour rule. RIP Ronnie … you left this world a better place.

      1. And ever since I saw a rockumentary in which band members recall how Ronnie and band were huge fans of a relatively unknown (at the time) English band called ‘Free’ … and the fluid blues guitar of Paul Kossoff. How they wanted to capture that same vibe …
        https://youtu.be/q13EUUsIsFE?si=HjKzd9d5PLoz91K0

        … I have a big permanent smile on my face.

    2. Me, too, Thought criminal.
      I was fortunate to have seen the original Skynyrd in 1974 or 5….blurry now.
      They opened for Edgar Winter’s White Trash but me and my buddies thought that Skynyrd stole the show.
      What a concert. What a band.

  6. Math from Max:

    “In 2019, before the pandemic hysteria, 285,270 Canadians died. That is our normal baseline, below 300,000 deaths.

    In 2020, the first year of the plague, deaths jumped to 307,205.

    Then came the “life-saving” vaccine in 2021. If the jab really worked, deaths should have dropped back toward that baseline, right?

    WRONG.

    In 2021, deaths went up to 311,640.
    In 2022, they skyrocketed to 334,623, nearly 50,000 more deaths than before the pandemic.
    In 2023: 326,571.
    In 2024: 326,779.
    We are still far above the pre-Covid death rate of below 300,000. Years later, The bodies have not stopped piling up.”

    1. Simple math is clearly too hard for politicians (and the masses) to understand and interpret!

      (Obviously you need to adjust for population increase, but that does not change the big picture.)

    2. Silly, silly Jamie …
      You forgot to count the … cases … of COVID
      Ohhhhhhhhhh mommmmaaaaaaa … the cases. The cases. The horror. The horror.

      The … cases … of COVID dropped like a rock after the injection jabs … because we stopped counting them.

    1. The daffodils would block driver’s views? How short are these Brits? They’re daffodils.

    2. Where did Brian go wrong?

      … following a similar scheme at a nearby church.

      That’s it in a nutshell.

    1. Add to that my automobiles 24/7 telemetry sent to the manufacturers database … and I will have no choice but to drive 55. Which will destroy my motoring pleasure … which appears to be the motive … FORCED behavior.

  12. Follow-up to yesterday’s thread on higher education
    https://www.thecollegefix.com/penn-state-may-cut-49-majors-after-closing-7-campuses/
    The board voted to close seven of the 20 campuses due, in part, to financial problems.
    The Board of Trustees voted to boost President Neeli Bendapudi’s total annual compensation by about $1 million,
    The board also voted to increase tuition.
    The board also voted to close the university public broadcasting service WPSU
    .
    Penn State isn’t alone. July 1, 2026 marks the start of the new rules on student loans as that gravy train is derailed thanks to OBBBA.

  14. Bramladesh leads housing delinquency rates.

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-brampton-ontario-mortgage-delinquencies-housing/

    “Equifax has identified five cities – Brampton, Toronto, Markham, Oshawa and Vancouver – as primary drivers behind the overall surge in delinquencies in Canada.
    In Brampton, the delinquency rate on total mortgages outstanding was 0.6 per cent in the final quarter of last year, according to data from Equifax, compared with 0.26 per cent nationally.
    Data show that homeowners with larger loans have higher delinquency rates compared with those with smaller mortgages. For example, Brampton homeowners with mortgages between $800,000 and $1-million had a delinquency rate of 1.13 per cent compared with about 0.2 per cent for loans that were $300,000 or less.”

    No sympathy being expressed in the Comments section.

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