Smile, When Your Heart is Breaking? Liar!
The essential hypocrisy and vulgarity of modern life is summed up by the leering grin all Americans and increasing numbers of Europeans affect whenever they meet someone or face a camera.
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Michael Hill: Bluegrass: The Music of the Mountain South
My paternal grandfather and I would listen to the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights on WSM-AM radio out of Nashville in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. Besides standard country & western, we particularly liked Bluegrass.
Piers Paul Read: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and the Invasion of Ukraine
Will the Baltic states be next? Or was the invasion in his view a preemptive strike against an existential threat to the Russian nation? Is it possible that the present conflict in Ukraine might have been avoided if the chancelleries and intelligence services of the Western powers had made a more thorough study of their enemy
Charlie Kirk, may he rest in peace
Many people on the right are saying that the murder of Charlie Kirk marks the beginning of a Civil War. They are wrong on two counts.
Oh Donald, Where Are You?
A while back I wrote that I would really believe in Donald Trump when I saw the Arlington reconciliation monument go back up. Almost hard to believe, it looks like it’s happening.
Hitler Rides Again
No, the Führer has not been found in Brazil and microwaved back to life, but the useful Hitler myth lives on as an image to be invoked whenever things are not turning out as they are supposed to.
Podcast: Less Than Five Minutes of Sarcasm
What the response to that infamous Sydney Sweeney commercial really means….
Information on Greece 2025
It appears that we now have 15-20 more or less confirmed participants in the November trip to Greece. We have therefore contacted our Athenian travel agents, who own a hotel in Athens and provide buses and guides.
The Master Builder
The London theatre-goer has to get used to seeing what he reveres systematically demeaned. Such a thought occurred to me as I watched ‘My Master Builder’, a play very loosely based on Ibsen’s striking late work The Master Builder.
The London theatre-goer has to get used to seeing what he reveres systematically demeaned. Such a thought occurred to me as I watched ‘My Master Builder’, a play very loosely based on Ibsen’s striking late work The Master Builder.
