__ Rush’s impact on the American music scene has been profound. He helped shape the folk revival in the ’60s and the renaissance of the ’80s and ’90s, his music having left its stamp on generations of artists. James Taylor told Rolling Stone, “Tom was not only one of my early heroes, but also one …
Sunday Long Read: “How the Mainstream Press Bungled the Single Biggest Story of the 2012 Campaign”
This one is worth giving the Huffington Post a click. Dan Froomkin — ejected from the Washington Post for being insufficiently ‘bipartisan’ — reports: Post-mortems of contemporary election coverage typically include regrets about horserace journalism, he-said-she-said stenography, and the lack of enlightening stories about the issues. But according to longtime political observers Thomas Mann and …
Sunday Morning Open Thread: Worship
__ From commentor Hitchhiker: Thought you might find a use for this photo of our rescued cat, Cleo, lording it over the creche last night. “You know who else was a solar deity? Bastet!” *********** What’s on the agenda for the rest of the weekend?
Retreating, Not Surrendering: Soon-to-Be-Ex-Senator Jim DeMint
Before Ronald Reagan’s handlers decided to embrace Jerry Falwell’s doubly-oxymoronic “Moral Majority“, the most conservative American Protestant groups were so aloof from the traditional structures of national politics that some Baptist preachers apparently encouraged their congregants not to vote. Paul Weyrich, a paleo-Catholic, was the co-founder of that ‘Moral Majority’ — and also the founder …
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Open Thread: ‘Chanukah in Santa Monica’
(h/t commentor Geoduck) __ You can never go wrong with Tom Lehrer. What’s on the agenda this evening, apart from the candle-lighting?
Saturday Morning Open Thread: Happy Hanukkah!
__ __ Okay, the celebrations don’t start until sundown, but I couldn’t be sure I’d be here then. May all of us always have a candle to ward off the darkness, and the courage to light it, especially at the time when the nights are longest! (If you think this is dreadful, well, I did …
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Friday Evening Open Thread: And This Would Be A Bad Thing, Why…?
(Matt Davies via GoComics.com — click link for full-sized image) __ Normally I ignore Charles Krauthammer like I do my dog’s noisily self-grooming his groin area, but this is just too mock-worthy: Let’s understand President Obama’s strategy in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. It has nothing to do with economics or real fiscal reform. This is …
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