Here’s a song from a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical called Allegro. It was the third collaboration between the two after Oklahoma and Carousel and it was “a very respectable flop,” as their encyclopedist Thomas Hischak put it. It did run on Broadway for nine months. The song is sung from the point of view of …
For example, let us all now praise Jule Styne, who wrote a song so perfect that it could be performed very differently by different artists. The song is “Make Someone Happy,” sung originally in the 1960 Broadway musical Do Re Mi by John Reardon. In 1964 Jimmy Durante (yes, he sang) released it as a …
My memory, I mean. This was the George Mason Regional Library in Annandale, Virginia circa 1965, found in the Digital Collection of the Library of Virginia. I lived in that town for six years from middle school through high school, and I’ve been an inveterate library user since I was ten when we lived in …
Can’t what, you ask? Can’t block Syrian refugees from settling in Texas. In his order on Thursday, Judge Godbey rejected claims that the government and the IRC were violating the Refugee Act of 1980 because the law as written doesn’t give Texas or any other state or locality the right to sue. Texas claimed it …
Headline: “Marco Rubio Suggests He’s Reconsidering Leaving Senate” Well, of course. It’s a guaranteed $174,000 salary every year, and while he stopped showing up for work (remember that Trump among other of his opponents made hay talking about all his missed votes during the primary campaign) he didn’t stop getting paid. In the past, including …
This man would lose his job if his church had any moral courage. Inciting his audience to attack other human beings, although he denies it, is criminal. “I’m not calling people to arms. And I’m not telling people they should go do this … What I’m saying is that if the government followed the laws …
Known as Honolulu Hale, this is Honolulu’s City Hall. It’s lit in this manner to pay tribute to those who died in Orlando yesterday.
If there are two organizations more dedicated to a cause which is detrimental to the health and welfare of the United States of America than the NRA and its even more radical fellow traveler the Gun Owners of America, I can’t imagine what they might be. The KKK? Wal-Mart? La Cosa Nostra? It’s largely because …
I like this. It’s nicely sourced and twists the knife just enough (“alleged billionaire”) at the end. There will be more like this in the future, I hope.
That would be Mary Chapin Carpenter, and the album is titled The Things That We Are Made Of. It’s mostly very quiet and introspective. I like it a lot, but I’ve been a fan of hers since I first found her music back in 2008. I’ve bought every album she’s released but one, and I …