A handy pie chart if there every was one
Made me laugh. (Via mstoddard)
Michael Medved last night at City Club
Michael Medved had an interesting presentation last night at Theatre on the Square. He recently wrote about "The 10 Big Lies About America" and during the presentation he covered three of the lies he covered in his book. One–that America is in an irreversible state of moral decline I've long believed to be false, and I'm glad Medved argued against it as passionately as he did. The second–that America is "uniquely" responsible for slavery and that slavery in the US was worse than anywhere else in the world … I found to be a bit of a strawman's argument. I Read more…
Scattered thoughts: The Arts
I've been negligent on posting here as well. MusicJust discovered the Robert Plant/Alison Krauss album. What an odd combination of musicians! And with a pretty great result. I've been listening to their cover of Gone Gone Gone by the Everly Brothers. Here's the Everly Brothers performing it. It's a really fun pop song, though in this case the highlight is definitely the dancers. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35YKLemYPtM?wmode=transparent] TelevisionMary's been watching Weeds and whenever I drop in for a few episodes I've really liked it. I've been interested in Glee and FlashForward but have decided to save both for DVD. The only TV Read more…
Scattered thoughts: Politics
I've been out of touch from my blog recently, so this is my opportunity to try to correct it with a lot of little short notes. 1) It would appear that R-71 will be approved, which I am glad to see. Last year I wrote this, and I still think it's true: My own nuptials next month are lessened, when my gay friends who love each other can't get married. How difficult has it been to invite a friend to a ceremony that they themselves cannot participate in? 2) RCV died. Which is really too bad, but I understand why Read more…
More adventures in the Amazon
As part of my recent Presidential biography reading, I read River of Doubt, the story of Theodore Roosevelt descending an unexplored Amazon river after his Presidency. The book pretty well convinced me that I don't want to spend a lot of time exploring the Amazon. The Lost City of Z did the same thing. I don't think I've ever read the line, "The men were never heard from again" more frequently than in this book. Z is very well written; it tells two stories. The first story is that of PH Fawcett, an explorer who set out to find evidence Read more…
More presidential photographs
I shouldn't give the White House photographer such a hard time about the Obama halo. I remember this photo from 2002 (or so. I can't remember for sure) that lined George W. Bush up on Rushmore. Photographers love to be clever.
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