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Music Week
Music: Current count 24971 [24940] rated (+31), 407 [402] unrated (+5).Still closing in on 25,000 records rated -- odds about 50-50 that can be announced next week, although it still seems like a tall...
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Some scattered links this week: Charles Krauthammer: It's Obama who lost Iraq: I don't normally bother citing right-wing propagandists here. I'd rather use links to learn something or at least point...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25005 [24971] rated (+34), 420 [407] unrated (+13).Rated count creeped over the 25,000 mark yesterday. Much of last week's haul was picked up on Rhapsody as I've been filling in...
View ArticleThe Bully Pulpit
Ed Kilgore quotes Mike Huckabee on, well, I guess you'd call this defense doctrine, though I'm not sure you can do that with a straight face:I'm not a war monger, let me be very clear -- I think the...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25024 [25005] rated (+19), 422 [420] unrated (+2).Missed four days for my trip to Arkansas. Fortunately, caught a break in the moonsoon on both travelling days, although it rained...
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Some scattered links this week: Jason Ditz: Senate Votes to Block Pentagon Paying Millions to NFL to 'Honor Troops': You probably thought (if you thought about it at all) that the NFL was just engaging...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25069 [25024] rated (+45), 432 [422] unrated (+10).When I counted the number of newly rated records below, I found more than my count this week. I went back and rechecked the...
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Ornette Coleman
As I'm sure you know by now, Ornette Coleman died yestertoday, age 85. He was the first jazz musician I developed a real interest in and affection for. That was in the mid-1970s, at least 15 years...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (June 2015)
Another month (plus one day) since last one, this one by far the largest of the year so far, but actually the new records are way down: 59 (including new compilations) compared to 103 last month, and...
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Weekend Roundup
We'll start with Richard Crowson's cartoon this week, since we can't seem to escape Brownbackistan. The Kansas state legislature had to go way into overtime to finally come up with a deal to patch up a...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25103 [25069] rated (+34), 429 [432] unrated (-3).Most of this week's report was scooped by last week's Rhapsody Streamnotes. Since then I've kept going down theSpin list, picking...
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Book Roundup
I figure enough books of possible interest come out each month to run a little feature noting 40 of them, but for a variety of reasons I've been lax and haven't run one of these since . . . July 3,...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25116 [25116] rated (+0), 439 [439] unrated (+0).About three days of work here -- less than half a week. On the fourth day I was totally distracted, and on the fifth day I took off...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25120 [25116] rated (+4), 462 [439] unrated (+23).Got back from my west coast drive just before midnight Saturday. In retrospect I should have packed a boombox. I did bring along...
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My Big Fat Greek Post
In America we tend to think of Europe, with its unions, high taxes, and (relatively) generous safety net, as well to our left, often noting that right-leaning politicians there are committed (or at...
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Another week with the usual scattered links: Robert Parry: US/Israeli/Saudi 'Behavior' Problems: Much of the opposition to the US+5/Iran deal is based on an assumption that Iran cannot be trusted -- a...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25154 [25120] rated (+34), 457 [462] unrated (-5).Came back from my trip exhausted, and if anything grew wearier over the course of the week. Unpacking has been slow, and while I...
View ArticleThe Usual Suspects
There is an old adage that goes: those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. But what happens when someone knows a little bit about history, but gets it all wrong? Take Wesley Clark, for...
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Weekend Roundup
I got an early start this week, writing some of this on Friday, then deciding that was close enough to save up for Sunday. This week's choice links: David Atkins: The GOP Isn't Choosing a President....
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Music Week
Music: Current count 25190 [25154] rated (+36), 453 [457] unrated (-4).Bumper crop of A-list records this week: if I kept this up I'd have 400 for the year, which would blow my credibility all to bits....
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