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The wisdom of white people
Along with Jazz, white people have also taken quite a shine to The Blues, an art form that captured the pain of the black experience in America. Then, in the 1960s, a bunch of British bands started to play their own version of the music and white people have been loving it ever since. It makes sense considering that the British were the ones who created The Blues in the 17th Century.
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Worth reading – Gaza edition
From Col. Lang – a very interesting post on the structure of the IDF.
Also, lost in all of the moral analysis of the current mess (why must San Diego always get bombed by Tijuana in analogies?) is how Israel benefits from it’s current engagement. The rocket attacks were bearable for quite some time – and no one goes to war out of principle anymore. The explanation of doing it while Bush is still in office doesn’t seem to be that credible, Obama hasn’t said anything different than Bush 43, and he has something to prove, so I imagine he would be even more agreeable to Israeli action than Bush (and as a reminder, Bush stopped the Israelis from bombing Iran a few months ago).
I suppose the War Nerd’s explanation of the attacks being used to weaken Hamas so Fatah could eventually win their civil war has the most credence, but that has problems too.
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The funniest thing I read today
Was the War Nerd defining crystal meth as the “Redneck Work Ethic”.
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Movies everyone should see – Holiday edition
Since I’ve been unswayed by the holidays this year, I’ve watched quite a few movies this year – here’s a partial list
- Anatomy of a murder – Jimmy Stewart at his best
- Dead Reckoning – A Bogart movie I had never seen before – another classic film noir
- Touch of Evil – Charlton Heston as a Mexican Fed (which he pulls off well), and Orson Welles as a fat, sweaty hard drinking cop, which he played well, but wasn’t that much of a jump.
- El Mariachi – a bit dated, but watchable
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Happy new year and all that
I’m a bit underwhelmed by everything this year.
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So very true
More galling is the phony outrage from politicians about how the banks are actually spending the money.
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Tuesday rapid fire
- Inventor’s 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world’s poorest see better
- Bleeding Heart Tightwads – the right gives more to charity than the left
- Burger King launches beef-scented body spray
- The neurotypicals conspire against us with homeopathic remedies
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The line of last night…
(Woman I was talking to referring to band on stage)
“The singer sounds like he’s hitting a baby with a cat”
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Dry Fit!
Here is the current state of the woodworking project. I went with SYP for the sides and shelves (with a gel stain, it looks very nice). On to finishing!
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Listen and mellow