In tribute to the City of Light. I’ve been there once, in the fall of 1984. We’d just concluded an American Express-conducted European bus tour in Cologne, I think, and we flew from there to Paris on a Lufthansa flight. During that flight we hit the biggest turbulence I’ve ever endured; we lost a whole …
The Chad Mitchell Trio, Live at the Bitter End. This was one of four albums I got in the mail this week from Second Spin for $24. The others? The long-unissued eponymous solo album by Karen Carpenter, Sinatra in Paris, one of only three live albums he ever released, and A Christmas Heritage by NewGrange, …
A guy named Robert Evans at Cracked did just that. He read some 700 pages of the glossy magazine that ISIS puts out (Dabiq) and learned a lot but also learned how little we really know. Two conclusions he drew are 1) ISIS wants the West to invade, because it needs to have its final …
[This is] iTunes’ chart of the best selling holiday and Christmas albums that were released in 2015. To be listed on the chart below, the album must have been released in 2015 and rank among the top 200 Christmas albums on the overall iTunes Christmas album chart. India.Arie and Joe Sample, LeeAnn Rimes, Kenny Rogers, …
Move forward to 5:02 in the video. I am embarrassed and ashamed of the (mostly) Republican politicians who are so gutless that the thought of Syrian families with small children arriving in America terrifies them. I’m sure most of them went off half-cocked without knowing how strict the vetting process is and how long it …
FIFA, the governing body of world football (soccer to us American Johnny-come-latelies) is going to hold an election to replace its notorious President, Sepp Blatter, in February 2016. All of the candidates claim to be running on a reform platform, saying they’ll clean up the corruption that resulted in fourteen indictments and seven arrests in …
Truly an exciting way to spend the day, no? We livened it up by writing checks to the creditors.
It happens every time. A terrorist attack invariably causes many many people to rush to judgment as to who the killers were (Muslim until proven otherwise). The same people automatically become Generals of the 82nd Chairborne and demand that the President of the United States declare war on the suspects’ country of origin at once. …
From the BBC Live Feed at midnight Paris time, an hour and twenty minutes ago: Here’s what we know about the situation in Paris: Dozens have been killed in multiple gun and bomb attacks in the French capital The country has declared a state of emergency and closed its borders At least 15 people were …
If Robert Costa is to be believed, and he’s always seemed to be reasonably well-connected to the Republicans, the elites and the big-money boys among them are getting more and more concerned that their party will nominate a clown like Trump or Carson and thus give the Presidency to Hillary. Even more concerning, a candidate …