Keith Richards RIP Update – “You Gotta Know When To Fold ‘Em”

Country Music Icon Kenny Rogers Dies at 81

Variety – Vocalist Kenny Rogers, who dominated the pop and country charts in the 1970s and 1980s with a string of sleekly tailored hits and won three Grammys, has died. He was 81. Rogers “passed away peacefully at home from natural causes under the care of hospice and surrounded by his family,” a representative for the singer said in a statement. Due to the national COVID-19 emergency, the family is planning a small private service at this time with a public memorial planned for a later date.

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IQ By AOC – Not Just Another Asteroid

And she’s still no Epstein

Salon – Ocasio-Cortez won second prize in a high school science fair sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the university’s lab named an asteroid after the future lawmaker.

Which, of course, gives her the scientific authority to comment on Mike Pence heading up the Coronavirus Task Force. AOC said, “It is utterly irresponsible to put him in charge of US coronavirus response as the world sits on the cusp of a pandemic,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “This decision could cost people their lives. Pence’s past decisions already have.” Ted Cruz, for one, was not having any of it.

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