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Rhapsody Streamnotes (April 2013)
Had promised to post this today, so be it. But I was tempted to slip in something else in its stead. First thing I saw in the paper this morning was a piece on Obama (and Clinton and Carter and the old...
View ArticleOver a Barrel
One thing about the gun debate is the lack of specific case examples, especially for arguments that putting more guns into the hands of "good" people will limit the amount of gun violence perpetrated...
View ArticleMusic Week/No Jazz Prospecting
Some scattered links I squirreled away during the previous week: Eric Harvey: Writing the Record: Interview with Devon Powers, author ofWriting the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21338 [21302] rated (+36), 615 [618] unrated (-3).Probably spent more time last week working on Rhapsody Streamnotes (posted) and Recycled Goods (still in progress) than Jazz...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup
Didn't squirrel away any links last week, but came up with a few anyway. Ed Kilgore: America Haters: A recent poll found that 29% of Americans agree with the statement, "In the next few years, an armed...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21383 [21338] rated (+45), 617 [615] unrated (+2).Not sure how the huge rated bump happened, but the Rhapsody work doesn't stop with this coming week's rather robust Recycled...
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Recycled Goods (108): May 2013
This edition started with Spin's recent feature, "Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960s" (list only, original link, which gets you short reviews if you're patient enough). When I originally collected...
View ArticleFuzzy Red Lines
A little over two years ago the "Arab Spring" pro-democracy movement broke out in Syria, a nation that nearly everyone agreed could benefit from more political freedom, seeing as how it's been ruled by...
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Another last-minute link grab: Nicholas Blanford: Hizballah and Israel Spar as Syria's Conflict Threatens to Spin Out of Control: Israel's 2006 war against Hezbollah (effectively Lebanon) should have...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21406 [21383] rated (+23), 622 [617] unrated (+5). Not sure what accounts for the fall off, but then don't remember much of last week.A-list records continue to accumulate at a...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup
After a lazy week, some more links to ponder: Igor Bobic: Obama Promises to Hold IRS Accountable on 'Outrageous' Targeting: Given the history of the federal government harrassing left-wing political...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21440 [21406] rated (+34), 629 [622] unrated (+7).Lost some ground last week, after a good start which picked up some stragglers, finding some honorable mentions but nothing to add...
View ArticleWoke Up Screaming
Woke up screaming, around noon today: leg cramp, high up my thigh. My wife ordered me to stand on it. Good advice, but I couldn't find my way out from under the covers until she pulled them off....
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Some scattered links from the previous week: Paul Krugman: The Closing of the Conservative Mind: Start with the proposition that there is a legitimate left-right divide in U.S. politics, built around a...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21466 [21440] rated (+26), 630 [629] unrated (+1). Average music week. Spent a lot of time with Carrier and Rempis, which in the end made a difference -- a break I don't cut...
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A Downloader's Diary (30): May 2013
by Michael TatumAfter months of worrying whether or not the year was going to yield any great music, here comes the deluge, with the three pick hits my kind of raucous -- even with two originating from...
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Rhapsody Streamnotes (May 2013)
Fifty-eight records this month. Genre-wise I figure they break down to 15 rock, 15 jazz (didn't know where else to put Haden), 9 electronica, 8 country/Americana, 7 rap, 3 r&b (counting Autre Ne...
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Music Week/Jazz Prospecting
Music: Current count 21501 [21466] rated (+35), 634 [630] unrated (+4).Got a lot of mail, including the Clean Feed package from Portugal, so looking forward to that. Meanwhile, picked through what I...
View ArticleKansas Flies Business Class
A piece in the Wichita Eagle today -- Dan Voorhis: Businesses will benefit from several recent laws enacted in Kansas -- points out that the Kansas state legislature hasn't only been up to complete...
View ArticleThinking Around the Israeli-American Impasse
Back in 2005, I wrote amodest proposal for resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict. I mailed it out to a bunch of people -- an example of "running it up the flagpole to see who salutes it" -- and it...
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