Argus Hamilton's Rogue Report

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• Taylor Swift wrapped up last week's sold-out concerts in Buenos Aires, Rio and Sao Paolo and took her concert tour across the Pacific to Japan and the Tokyo Dome this weekend. Taylor has endorsed Joe Biden for president. Why do I sense yet another song coming about her poor taste in men?

• Elon Musk announced Saturday he is going to fly to Israel this week and visit imperiled towns located near the Gaza border and meet with Israeli leaders. This fall, Elon has lost his wife, his kids, forty billion dollars and his spaceship crashed. It's a genre of country music that doesn't exist yet.

• The National Retail Federation reported huge retail sales throughout North America on Black Friday with stores in both the U.S. and Canada. Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had to be sent home from work that morning to wash up. Apparently Black Friday isn't what he thought it was.

• The Wall Street Journal reports a consortium of labor groups is trying to land on the Starbucks board of directors to try to bump up wages. For its part, Starbucks announced they are planning to sell beer and wine. Apparently it is becoming difficult to sell sober people a twelve-dollar cup of coffee.

• The Atlantic published an article questioning whether the weight-loss success of Ozempic will halt progress we've made toward fat acceptance. One strip club in Vegas advertises a three-hundred-fifty pound stripper named Big Bertha. She's single-handedly destroying more poles than Adolf Hitler.

• The FBI busted a network of Asian massage parlors operating in Boston near Harvard as well as in Washington D.C. near the U.S. Capitol. The cultural barrier might have led to operational screw-ups. Hunter Biden asked the guy at the door for a sixty-nine and they brought him the Kung Pao Chicken.

• The Los Angeles Folk Music Festival was scheduled for next October 2024 and described as a two-day celebration of L.A. being the epicenter of modern American folk music. The future doesn't look bright for folk music or folk music clubs in the Golden State. Starting in 2028 all guitars must be electric.

• The Financial Times reported that new state laws legalizing weed could turn red states blue in the next election. Legal marijuana in twenty-four states and the District of Columbia had profound effects upon Thanksgiving. For example, many Americans are just getting around to celebrating it today.

• The FBI released crime statistics for 2023 showing lower numbers of murders, lower numbers of violent crimes and lower numbers of property crimes this past year. I think everybody needs to step up their game. From my perspective, criminals are far less dangerous than a well-organized government.

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