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Rhapsody Streamnotes (April 2016)
Not much to say here. Fairly typical month: four weeks, 125 records. Only nine 2015 releases, although I still don't feel like I have a handle on 2016 -- indeed, I can't say as I'm trying. Just wading...
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If all Democrats had the same beliefs and agenda, the only real question for the primaries would be who could best represent those values in the general election. Likewise, there would be no reason for...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 26594 [26541] rated (+53), 422 [413] unrated (+9).Spent first half of last week wrapping up theApril Rhapsody Streamnotes column. One thing I did there was to compile a list of...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 26610 [26594] rated (+16), 425 [422] unrated (+3).Huge drop in rated count this week, from +53 to +16. The explanation of the big count was that I was working through a deep...
View ArticleBlowing Smoke
A propos, I guess, of Obama's planned visit to Hiroshima this week, Tom Carson tweeted:Only one thing is worse than Hiroshima. That is the likely death toll (American and Japanese) if we'd had to...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 26641 [26610] rated (+31), 428 [425] unrated (+3).Rated count rebounded last week from a low 16 the previous week. Most of the gain came from delving into the back catalog of...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup
No real time for this today, so I'll just try to note a few brief links without providing much in the way of commentary. Main thing that chewed up time today was my sister's birthday. She wanted a...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 26660 [26641] rated (+19), 428 [428] unrated (+0).Another low rated count this past week. Been busy with other stuff, and took my own sweet time with several of these items. Next...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (May 2016)
No time to write an intro today. For some explanations, see the last month's Music Week posts, somewhere underhere. Still haven't heard Merle Haggard's 1990s Curb albums. Would have done Prince, but he...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 26674 [26660] rated (+14), 424 [428] unrated (-4).Right. Week cut short on Friday, after I postedRhapsody Streamnotes on Wednesday. Missed the Festen album there -- you always miss...
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Music: Current count 26674 [26674] rated (+0), 447 [424] unrated (+23).That is, nothing new rated in the last 15 days, while I've been busy driving around half of the the eastern half of the United...
View ArticleKrugman's Truthiness
I wanted to write about this scurrilous piece [Paul Krugman: The Truth About the Sanders Movement] before my trip -- it was posted May 23 -- but never found the time (and my tools weren't much help)....
View ArticleWeekend Roundup
Travel disrupts my normal news browsing. I'm lucky to keep up with my email, find it hard to write on notebook keyboards, never listen to the radio, only watch TV when that's happening somewhere I'm...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 26705 [26674] rated (+31), 440 [447] unrated (-7).First, some business left over from yesterday's Weekend Roundup post. David Everall wrote a long and informative letter on the...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 26732 [26705] rated (+27), 438 [440] unrated (-2).Been sick the last couple days. Probably just one of those passing bugs, but it's really kicked my ass. I started a Weekend...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (June 2016)
Ran out of month before I hit 100 records for the first time since, well, looks like December 2014, although this month's 66 is closer to October 2014's 63 -- must have been another month I lost two...
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Started this more than a week ago, but things dragged out, making me late, or perhaps now I should say early?After last week's referendum when 52% of the UK's voters decided to chuck it all and take...
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Music Week
Music: Current count 26750 [26732] rated (+18), 449 [438] unrated (+11).Recovery from whatever struck me the previous week was slow, partly because I never seem to feel like doing much of anything...
View ArticleBook Roundup
Here's another batch of forty book blurbs as I try to keep up with what's being published in my main areas of concern: politics, history, economics, occasionally something else. This batch isn't...
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The biggest story in the US last week involved the fatal shootings of seven people in three separate incidents: one each in Louisiana and Minnesota (Alton Sterling and Philando Castile), and five in...
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