The real reason Cracker Barrel has been struggling is that its service and food quality nose-dived after COVID, and instead of fixing that, the company and its woke executives decided to go full Bud Light and taste the rainbow and dare its customers to object.
OPEN THREAD: Because I love you and want you to be happy.
THIS IS THE SLAPDOWN. NEXT WE NEED CONSEQUENCES:
The Supreme Court tossed another injunction blocking the Trump Administration. Justice Gorsuch delivered this haymaker to lower court judges: “Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this Court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them.” https://t.co/Z0hlgijNQv
LEE WILLIAMS: Judge ATF as They Judge Us: They’re All Guilty and They All Need to Go. “No one makes the case that it’s time to end the ATF better than the ATF itself. Rather than allowing the agency to continue on its own or merging it with the DEA as has been recently discussed, President Donald J. Trump should put the agency out of our misery before its agents kill yet another innocent American or violate someone else’s civil rights.”
IT’S MY THURSDAY ESSAY FOR VIP SUBSCRIBERS: Are We Losing the New Space Race? “The race isn’t to merely plant a flag for prestige and bragging rights. The race is on to establish a permanent and (eventually) self-sustaining presence on the ultimate high ground — and the gateway to the riches of the asteroid belt.”
The original series, ‘Anthology 1’ arrived in November 1995, around the same time as an eight-part documentary, and some of the first new music from the band since the death of John Lennon, with McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr working with Jeff Lynne on ‘Real Love’ and ‘Free as a Bird’.
It was followed up by two more albums, aptly named ‘Anthology 2’ and ‘Anthology 3’, which both arrived in 1996.
Now, it’s been confirmed that a new installment is arriving this year, with the documentary series restored, remastered and set to include a brand new Episode Nine.
And not surprisingly, the Beatles (Paul, Ringo, and their engineering and production boffins) used the latest AI technology to bring John’s ghostly vocal from his 1970s demo on “Free as a Bird” to the front of a new and much clearer sounding mix, which sounds dynamite on headphones:
All of the caveats from the 2023 release of “Now and Then” apply: this is the three surviving Beatles playing in the mid-‘90s on top of a demo tape John Lennon originally recorded in the mid-‘70s on a pair of “ghetto blaster” cassette recorders in Lennon’s Dakota building apartment. Likely a real studio performance would have both much more energy to it, and better shaped lyrics. But it’s still great to hear all four Beatles on the same recording.
By fiscal year 2035, the national debt is set to surpass $53 trillion, or 120% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, according to a new estimate by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
The updated number – which CRFB reached by assuming that all current trade deals and tariffs remain in effect – is $1 trillion more than projected in the Congressional Budget Office’s January 2025 Budget and Economic Outlook.
Yearly interest payments on the national debt will rise as well, climbing from nearly $1 trillion in 2025 to $1.8 trillion in 2035, a total increase of $14 trillion over the next decade.
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