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…
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