It’ a great bunch of songs that some have credited with introducing these classic songs to a much younger generation. We Fooled Around and Fell in Love is on that soundtrack. (Elvin’s not black, but some of the other artists are.)

I didn’t really know what to expect with the film, and it’s largely a youthful and aggressive sci-fi action film. But still rather entertaining aside from the great soundtrack.

I’ll chime in per usual that I don’t think anyone “reasons” themselves into or out of political matters without a strong social-emotional component.

The left is right about that and the right is left behind. 🙂

As a young man Thomas Sowell was a Marxist. So, even someone as brilliant as he is can reason his way into it.

There are presumably several threads intertwined in creating that favorable social structure and network. Even as he studied the creation of wealth via specialization and trade, Adam Smith was concerned and worried about the distortions from mercantilist enterprises.

It is hard to understand how and why, when we have these examples of favorable and unfavorable situations, that everyone is not oriented to pursing the favorable version. How prescient was Thomas Sowell to summarize the situation as the dichotomy between constrained and unconstrained visions. And maybe a tip of the hat to Darwin for pointing out that even with our claims of Imago Dei we are also still evolved from less exalted animals.

At least we have the models of the DOI and the 2nd Amendment to fall back on if we have to start over [if they are not also lost in the turmoil of decay], but next time we ought to be sure to add a balanced budgeting feature, along with limits on indebtedness and mandatory incorporation of operating budgets to support and manage capital outlays, to the next constitution.
But even we have violations of “Congress shall make no law … “

https://notthebee.com/article/this-account-shows-how-south-africa-has-decayed-in-just-15-years-and-its-a-warning-to-us-all

I’ve been running Linux for 26 years, used to compile my own kernels on occasion and had a cron job to download Konqueror and compile it every Saturday night to see if the bugs were fixed. Konqueror is arguably the basis for Apple Safari, Apple forked KHTML and KJS to create Webkit. I run Fedora these days to test out cutting edge features — new releases twice a year — but dual boot to windows for some things about once a week. My needs are pretty basic: web browsing, email, and code editing/compiling. Free compilers have been a long standing feature of Linux distributions.

https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/02/epstein-files-update-former-obama-white.html

I’m in the process to switching over from Windows to Linux Mint. It’s a combination of Windows 11 going way overboard with Microsoft control-freakery plus the maturing (finally!) of Linux desktop interfaces.

Linux Mint Cinnamon is pretty civilized and compatible with a Windows user’s instincts. Not perfectly, of course, but close enough.

With Microsoft your computer is an outpost in the MS empire. With Linux your computer is your computer.

Linux doesn’t require registering an account with anyone (like MS and Apple). It doesn’t monitor your activities. It doesn’t force you to buy more modern computers. It doesn’t pepper you with ads and nudges into a corporate ecosystem with monthly fees.

Linux Mint boots fast, hides most of the Unix underpinnings, and keeps you in control.

Furthermore, it’s free.