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Highland Brewing founder and Asheville craft-beer pioneer Oscar Wong has died. Way back, when I first tasted the ale from ⁦⁦@HighlandBrews⁩, it was the first time I realized beer didn’t need to taste like watered-down pee-pee. RIP, Mr. Wong. https://t.co/OPiPj9Mrrj

Congress doesn’t want to do anything. It doesn’t want to change anything. Everyone in Congress wants to get reelected. That is 100 percent the motivation. Everything else is a pose. Both parties. The national debt is ruinous. No one in Washington cares. Sad.

RT @matt_vanswol: 🚨#BREAKING: Thousands of American flags have been placed on the grave sites of the Western North Carolina Veterans Cemete…

Like the true business journalist I was, I merely scoffed at Bitcoin generally and therefore am so much happier today than poor Laszlo Hanyecz. Cynicism and zero risk-taking is the true path to contentment.

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It's bitcoin pizza day: the 10,000 bitcoin spent on 2 Papa John's pizzas in 2010 by Laszlo Hanyecz is now worth $1.1 billion, just shy of Papa John's market cap of $1.3 billion

Apparently I am not in the running. 😡 https://t.co/M3PnEf8g8E

Crazy tree-climbing bear cubs on my street this evening. https://t.co/juGi3X5aAe

I honestly can’t tell anymore what constitutes a foul in the NBA.

Watching awful Nuggets collapse in OKC. Every Denver player looks 45 years old and every Thunder player appears to be Michael Jordan at age 21.

RT @Pinko69420: https://t.co/RLF06KTBd1

Forget the Kentucky Derby. We hosted the Chicken Races today. https://t.co/6u7nRWN6m0

For lunch today I ate a life-giving banana and a few fistfuls of life-draining tortilla chips infused with preservatives and chemicals banned by most countries. Just trying to maintain that dramatic tension. Or maybe writing goals should not be the same as life goals? Not sure.

Wow, the cicadas are SO LOUD right now here in Western North Carolina. Sounds like “War of the Worlds.” Sound up! https://t.co/sd8dDQIB4w

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Western North Carolina cicada class of 2025. https://t.co/JloZI7pXwZ

The Puritans understood and glorified the goodness of God as well as any people in history, because they immersed themselves in the scriptures and embraced what they saw there concerning God’s loving character and eternal promises. They did not allow low circumstances or troubles https://t.co/QX3Q9jVIu3

Asheville bust seizes enough fentanyl to kill 100,000 people. https://t.co/VWWGkJkI3S