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Spending all day reading and writing about America’s current condition can be wearying, but something lovely fell into my lap.
Continue readingConservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Spending all day reading and writing about America’s current condition can be wearying, but something lovely fell into my lap.
Continue readingWhen it comes to protests for liberty, country music is best–in this case, Blind Joe, who has a rip-roaring time singing “I will not comply.” By the way, YouTube has already deleted the song once, although it’s still up for now. Of course, you can always see and listen to
Continue readingHauling mulch around a garden on a rainy day made me contemplative, so I contemplated Bryan Ferry’s surprisingly conservative “Let’s Stick Together.” I spent another day tackling the garden in my new house. Wednesday was mulching day, and a friend helped me shift 6 cubic yards of mulch from a
Continue readingAs I age, my only regret is that I can’t celebrate my truly happy New Year with my long-gone parents — but I can share it with you. Happy New Year! Perhaps because I’m getting older, or perhaps because 2019 was a year of change and 2020 will be a
Continue readingWhile we may personally like nice people in our lives, Trump understands Sinatra’s advice: You’ve got to have a little push and style to get ahead.
Continue readingIt feels like my high school years finally and irrevocably ended: RIP, Daryl Dragon and thanks for the music.
Continue readingOne of the ways to keep young is to listen to your children’s playlists. This is one of the songs I got from the Little Bookworms. I’ve been busy with actual paying legal work and this was a nice note in the background:
Continue readingI have an earworm. I’m passing it on to you: And here’s a bonus earworm from the same era:
Continue readingWorking on a legal project, but thought I’d share with you a very pleasant ear worm:
Continue readingWith Tex Beneke singing: I’m pretty sure that this song wouldn’t make the cut today, what with the sexist assumptions (ladies make men wait), the mansplaining (there are no women in this conversation), the undoubtedly wrong assumptions on the part of the man that would lead him to engaging in
Continue readingHaving returned from one trip, I’m about to embark on another (although I will have time to blog on this second trip). As I get ready to go, here’s a musical interlude:
Continue readingFrom Warner Brother’s 1944 Hollywood Canteen,” “You Can Always Tell A Yank” is a lousy song, both musically and lyrically. Why then am I posting it here? Because it’s the only American popular song I know that has lyrics paying explicit homage to both the Constitution and the Bill of
Continue readingSometimes it’s worth taking a moment to say “thank you” and Benny Friedman’s song is a joyous way to do that: UPDATE: Just a quick note to say that if you press the close caption button (“CC”) on the bottom right of the video, you can get the English translation
Continue readingThis is a charming video from start to finish: great production values, charming song, and a good singer. I first caught it on my Facebook feed and then lost it — and, of course, couldn’t remember how to find it again. Thankfully, Erich Kern sent me a link to the
Continue readingMy son wanted me to watch a video that he and his peers find incredibly funny. Someone got hold of footage of Iggy Azalea, a young Australian rapper, “freestyling” and spent a lot of time putting together subtitles. Aside from the “F” word’s frequent appearance (consider yourself warned), the result
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