Take a look at this video , of a sixteen-year old who videoed herself criticizing the Obama and general liberal stance on gay marriage. Innocuous, civil, standard-issue conservative commentary on the subject, really only distinguished by the commentator’s youth and her quoting Billy . . . . Continue Reading »
SMiLE was to be the follow-up to Pet Sounds , but its recording was apparently so arduous for The Beach Boys, the session musicians, and the increasingly unstable Brian Wilson, that he called it off in the Spring of ‘67. Driblets of the studio material were released over the years, Wilson . . . . Continue Reading »
Roger Boesche is not among the top ten Tocqueville scholars in my opinion, but he probably deserves to be in the top fifteen or at least twenty; he has at least three serious books on Tocqueville I can recall off-hand, the most well known being The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville , and . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t entirely agree with Walter Russell Mead that Romney needs to focus on becoming more likeable by doing a great job of explaining his faith. It isn’t that I’m against Romney explaining how he was shaped by his personal faith and his institutional church. I . . . . Continue Reading »
HERE! I found the 40-year-old virgin impossible to believe, because he wasn’t obviously repulsive and had the burning desire to be devirginized. But the virginal and beautiful Olympic track star at 29 has a great story to tell about taking herself seriously in a world where everything is . . . . Continue Reading »
Let me begin by expressing my admiration for all the fine recent posts. They all deserve a much wider audience. One way to get that, Kate remind us, is to click the facebook like when you read a post. That even goes for the author of the post. Carl’s musical knowledge would charm just about . . . . Continue Reading »
Do you like “Do You Like Worms?” ? Let’s try an experiment: I’d like readers who have not really heard the Beach Boys’ SMiLE , their ambitious 60s album only recently “released” in a Brian Wilson-approved form, to listen to two of the most popular songs from it, . . . . Continue Reading »
The fabulous blogger Walter Russell Mead observes that studies show that the more likable candidate almost always win. That’s why Bush the younger, for example, beat Gore. So far the president is more much liked than Romney. One reason for that is that we don’t know Mitt very well as a . . . . Continue Reading »
When I hear the harpsichord in Vivaldi or Bach, if I picture anything, it would be rococo drawing rooms—George Washington asking Jane Austen for the pleasure of a dance. When I hear it in pop, perhaps thanks to Peanuts and the great Vince Guaraldi , I picture green lawns and white . . . . Continue Reading »
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