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June 2013
With a picture for each.
"Caravan"
June 30, 2013
Van Morrison and the Caledonia Soul Orchestra, live in London, 1973.
It seems like I won't have to buy music ever again
June 29, 2013
He's beautiful when he's angry
June 29, 2013
Mark Steyn, "The Simulacrum of Self-Government":
Say what you like about George III, but the Tea Act was about tea. The so-called comprehensive immigration reform is so comprehensive it includes special deals for Nevada casinos and the recategorization of the Alaskan fish-processing industry as a “cultural exchange” program, because the more leaping salmon we have the harder it is for Mexicans to get across the Bering Strait. While we’re bringing millions of Undocumented-Americans “out of the shadows,” why don’t we try bringing Washington’s decadent and diseased law-making out of the shadows?
"[T]he day my ball-boy dream died"
June 29, 2013
Joining the "elite Republican Guard of ball boys and ball girls" is not easy.
"Light My Fire"
June 29, 2013
Mark Steyn tries to explain the endurance of a 60s song.
"Look Out, Supermarkets—Amazon's Coming to Destroy You While Losing Money Delivering Groceries"
June 28, 2013
Bring it on!
UPDATE: Link fixed now. Thanks, rjs.
"22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other"
June 28, 2013
Do you say "you guys," "y'all," "you all," or just "you" and 21 others.
"Going Up the Country"
June 28, 2013
Canned Heat. (With an assist from Henry Thomas.)
"Atlantic: Why Do People Have to Make Stuff Up?"
June 27, 2013
Professor Munger posts accurately about one of the main problems with Liberals. But with all due respect, Thomas Sowell, in A Conflict of Visions, was way ahead of him. To wit:
Sowell argues that people tend to have one of two visions of life. Holders of the constrained vision--roughly, modern conservatives--believe that perfection in social and economic affairs is impossible. Why? For one thing, the knowledge needed for such perfection can't be obtained by one person or even by a small group of people. So constrained vision holders concentrate on the margin: they look for policies to make things a little better rather than a little worse.
Holders of the unconstrained vision--roughly, modern Liberals--believe that it is not only possible to achieve perfection in social and economic affairs but that people of intelligence and good will can absolutely devise the policies to get us there. So Liberals find people who quarrel with or oppose their policies utterly baffling. How could anyone reject perfection? They can only believe such people are immoral and evil.
Many of the big political debates in my lifetime are well described by Sowell's brilliantly simple scheme.