Classic Beatles
Rickenbackers are the guitar of choice for some musicians, including Roger McGuinn of the Byrds and Tom Petty of the Heartbreakers. But the first time I ever saw one was when it was played by John Lennon in “A Hard Days Night.”
Archive of entries posted on August 2009
Death wish
If you opt for cremation, could it be said you’ve found your niche?
O Good and Faithful Servant
A selective list of Senator Kennedy’s legislative accomplishments: Immigration (1965) Kennedy managed the successful floor battle to pass the Hart-Celler Act that abolished quotas and lifted a 1924 ban on immigration from Asia. Cancer (1971) After rising to the position of majority whip in 1969, Kennedy and Rep. Paul Rogers, D-Fla., passed legislation establishing a …
The Times, They Are A-Changin’
In a post with links to video of President Obama’s eulogy for Senator Kennedy I found a perceptive comment at Political Animal: When he entered the Senate, Jim Crow segregation still existed. In much of the country blacks couldn’t vote or were taking their lives into their hands if they did. When his Senate career …
In which my faith in science is shaken
One of the exhibits I saw at Bishop Museum yesterday included a five-foot tall wood carving of a lesser god. It was a couple of centuries old and looked its age. One of the things about me is that when I look at textual descriptions of artifacts in museum cases I read everything, so I …
Museum talk
Update: My friend Ryan went to the grand re-opening and took some 40 pictures, including this spectacular panoramic shot. We went to Bishop Museum today to see the results of the $21M renovation of Hawaiian Hall. It’s glorious. We spent four hours there and could have spent triple that. It reopened about two weeks ago, …
Hung for sheep as lamb, etc.
We can rest assured that the Republicans are going to accuse the Democrats of “politicizing” Senator Kennedy’s death whether the Dems do or not, so I don’t see the harm in saying things like “Health Care Reform would have been his crowning achievement, and we need to pass it in his memory.” Moreover, I suspect …
Ted Kennedy dies at 77
From the NYT: The death was announced Wednesday morning in a statement by the Kennedy family. “Edward M. Kennedy — the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply — died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port,” the statement said. “We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light …
Unusual spam
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Truly a fitting demise
Clippy (remember Clippy?) went too far, and Cthulhu is invoked. via PZ Myers