Discussion on 'Beat It' guitar solo, 'Dirty Diana,' and Method Man's inspiration

* Ron Karenga

* Handel’s Messiah and stock portfolio

* Musicology is dumb, says Matt

* Hip-hop is appropriation and it’s great

* Method Man thinks the Stones and Bootsy are the same

* The Fall of Minneapolis

* The Fifth’s verdict

* Some good things, some bad things

* Revisiting the Chauvin trial

* An 800,000 word reflection from James Bennet

* Fanaticism and forgivenness

* How is this plagiarist surviving?

* How about firing these dopes

* LP and AJ

* The many, many, many dead in Ukraine

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