Seriously strange
[NOTE: I wrote this post last night and had it set up in such a way that it would automatically be published in the morning. I don’t do that often, but every now and then I do. It turns out … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Arts
A song for Memorial Day
I’ve posted this song before, but I think it bears repeating, especially on Memorial Day weekend. It’s Tim McGraw’s extraordinarily moving song “If You’re Reading This:” If you’re readin’ this My momma’s sittin’ there Looks like I only got a … Continue reading →
Kudos, Jon Stewart
For this: The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,The Daily Show on Facebook I’ve seen quite a few clips of Stewart lately that show some good sense and some moxie. I’ve always thought he … Continue reading →
Liberty at the market
As a blogger, I tend to immerse myself in the news. Lately there’s been so very much of it, and so much to think about, that I find myself neglecting some of the other parts of my life. But yesterday … Continue reading →
Manzarek: the key keyboardist
Ray Manzarek, keyboardist and founding member of The Doors, has died at 74. I can’t say I ordinarily notice keyboardists, except in a very general way. But Manzarek was different. I didn’t know his name until a few years ago, … Continue reading →
Maybe she should have written it on her hand
Well, it is a hard song. And she’s French Canadian. But still, every performer’s nightmare: [Hat tip: Ace’s.]
Continue reading →Just because you’re paranoid…
…it doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you—at least once in a blue moon. That’s another frame liberals are using to deal with the multiple scandals that have suddenly broken simultaneously—especially the IRS overreach. This article is typical. The … Continue reading →
Again with the not-so-Great Gatsby
Another day, another Gatsby movie, and I will go out on a limb to predict another mediocrity. They keep trying to make this story into a film, but the book is just too gossamer for that to be done successfully. … Continue reading →
Where are they now?
I love these painting of famous historical figures as they might look if alive today. Here’s one (there are four others at the link):
Continue reading →More on the Cleveland kidnappings: psychics
We still don’t know too many of the details about yesterday’s remarkable case in which three kidnapped girls, long thought dead, returned. But one thing I do know is that the timing of their escape is excellent—Mother’s Day is coming! … Continue reading →
My generation: hatin’ on the boomers
[Bumped up.] I couldn’t help but notice the amount of boomer-directed venom expressed in the comments section of yesterday’s thread. I’ve noticed it many times before. Actually, I’ve noticed it almost every time I write about—well, about my generation. And … Continue reading →
Taking off: “what care I?”
Brenda Heist vanished over ten years ago. Despite a huge search she was never found, and was finally presumed (and even legally declared) dead. Brenda and her husband had been on the brink of divorce, and he remarried. Her two … Continue reading →