Martha Bayles’s expertise, which besides her punchy prose is the main attraction of her Hole In Our Soul , extends beyond the p’s and q’s of American popular music, but also covers the impact various theories of modernism and art had upon the music’s development. She is . . . . Continue Reading »
The essence of Christianity is to love one another, to have compassion, not to judge, but to forgive, to accept – no? Applied to politics, the implication seems obvious: unlimited tolerance, equality of lifestyles, etc: in a word, extreme liberalism. What’s wrong with this picture? . . . . Continue Reading »
Fluid situation, but this Newsmax account is as good as any for portraying where things stand at the moment. 5 days away from a referendum that may give Egypt an essentially Islamist constitution. . . . . Continue Reading »
Thoughts by me here. . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter asked for an homage to MItt Romney. I think I supplied one in the current Claremont Review of Books. Here is the link: http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.2018/article_detail.asp . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Is DeMint going to bring new ideas to Heritage?? He could hire Pete and allow him to clean house. 2. I’m agreeing with those who say that the Republicans now seem to have two principles: Don’t raise taxes on the wealthy and cut the entitlements (particularly Medicare) that everyone . . . . Continue Reading »
There are two kinds of insomniacs: the productive and the unproductive. The productive work all night, putting their fretful hours to good use. Some people ask: “How does he or she manage to accomplish all that in a twenty four hour day?” But they are being much too hard on themselves. . . . . Continue Reading »
Can’t talk about the 60s, especially 60s “Love,” without dealing with the Beatles. Last time we were occupied with one of their so-so late 60s numbers, but here we’ll be giving them their real due, by considering their early style. Let’s begin with this , part of a recent . . . . Continue Reading »
A while back on Twitter, Ross Douthat wrote “Social cons gave GOP Todd Akin. Elite donors gave GOP “47 percent.” Both hurt, but latter hurt a lot more.” I’m not going to disagree with Douthat. Romney was more important than Akin and “47%” sentiment was more . . . . Continue Reading »
Dave Brubeck is one of those artists that whenever I’ve delved into the recordings just a bit, I’ve thought, “Wow, this is wonderful stuff . . . gotta explore this more,” but for some reason, perhaps pocketbook-related, just never did. Sure I have the greatest hits . . . . Continue Reading »
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