Some days…
…I get so involved in discussions in the comments that I don’t start working on my posts till later than planned. Today is one of those times. I think that in the last few weeks, distraction has become even more … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Me, myself, and I
Jean Paul Belmondo dies at 88
The French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo has died at 88. Quite a few of the tributes to Belmondo call him “handsome.” That surprises me, because I never thought him handsome. He was something else – unique and compelling and magnetic. I … Continue reading →
The Bee Gees and others: “Too Much Heaven” minus the falsetto
I’ve discussed the Bee Gees’ 1978 song “Too Much Heaven” before. Released at the height of their disco era, it’s not disco but rather an R&B ballad with all three brothers singing in falsetto. Barry is the featured soloist and … Continue reading →
The message of “move on” from the Biden administration
I’ve long been annoyed by people who tell other people to “move on.” I’m talking about private life, although the exhortation is also used by politicians and has been especially useful for the left in the past. When Biden scoffed … Continue reading →
Afghanistan and the Surrender-Monkey-In-Chief: what’s really going on here?
[NOTE: Today’s latest abomination: President Biden on Tuesday said he will stick to an Aug. 31 deadline for removing US troops from Afghanistan after the Taliban said it would not allow him any additional time to evacuate US citizens and … Continue reading →
Thank you, Don Everly and the Everly Brothers
Don Everly of the Everly Brothers died last Saturday at the age of 84. I was going to start this post with the sentence: “I loved the Everly Brothers.” But then I checked the post I published on the death … Continue reading →
Is the Biden administration worse than you expected?
I was reading a set of comments somewhere at a blog on the right where a lot of people were saying this administration is worse than they had expected. The topic at hand was the incompetence of the withdrawal from … Continue reading →
Objectifying men; objectifying women
I found this at Instapundit: It indicates that although gaping at and admiring male athletes’ bodies is perfectly okay, doing the same to women athletes’ bodies isn’t. That’s in line with the left’s new puritanism. But it’s also a denial … Continue reading →
COVID overview Part II: liberty and risk
[NOTE: Part I can be found here.] If someone – say, Howard Hughes (to take one obvious example) – wants to become an eccentric isolate in an attempt to protect himself against disease or other mishap, I may think he’s … Continue reading →
Emotion in music
Among my drafts I have an enormous number of fragmented ones about the connection between music and emotion. It’s not something I really understand, but I keep trying to write about it nonetheless. I think some people are immune to … Continue reading →
COVID overview Part I: trying to make sense of the whole “masks for the vaccinated” thing
[NOTE: This is the first part of a planned 2-parter.] First of all, we have the politics of the COVID response: (1) Authorities like to be authoritarian and order people around. So there is psychological satisfaction from it. (2) It … Continue reading →
Why should we care how how the Capitol Police or members of Congress felt on January 6th?
Their therapists should care. Their families and friends should care. But I can’t figure out why the rest of us should – at least, not in the legal, investigative sense of trying to find out what really happened on January … Continue reading →