June 2006
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The Hardness of Their Hearts A curious phenomenon on display at the Dawn Patrol: Dawn publishes an excerpt from her forthcoming book, The Thrill of the Chaste, and the cultural left lashes out with furious scorn. Dawn has links here, here, and here, and responds here. You really have to slog through some of the…
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Music of the Week – May 28, 2006 Jimi Hendrix: First Rays of the New Rising Sun A couple of years ago something or other sparked me to listen to Jimi Hendrix for the first time in quite a few years, and I realized why guitar players still hold him in something close to awe.…
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National Review Online Is Having A Fund-Raiser But I'm wondering if the time has come to let my subscription lapse. With loathsome words from John Derbyshire echoing around the blogosphere today, I must say that (a) if Derbyshire is a conservative, I'm not and (b) if this is where NR is going, I'm not. Derbyshire…
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About Comments I had forgotten (from a year or so ago when I experimented with Blogger) about the deficiencies of the comment system, the biggest one being that I have to re-publish the blog for comments to appear (not really Blogger's fault if I have the blog on my own server, I guess). I'll have…
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One Cheer for Roy Moore Roy Moore, running for the Republican nomination for the Alabama governership, was easily defeated last week by incumbent Governor Bob Riley. All the polls had predicted this, so if those were correct then the majority of the state’s citizens were pleased by the defeat. Although he continues to refer to…
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This was the first Galaxie 500 album I heard, which was in a way unfortunate, because its opening song, “Fourth of July,” is, to my taste, the best thing they ever did, and also rather different from most of their other work. I was disappointed with the rest of this album, and disappointed with their…
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The Hand of Rand A discussion on Dawn Eden’s blog the other day about the problem of sex-selection abortion struck a note that I haven’t heard before. The intial post was a story about the prevalence of this practice in India, and a challenge to the refusal of pro-choice feminists to condemn it. In response,…
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This is another album from the ‘70s that I missed at the time. It attracted quite a lot of attention and is now regarded as something of a landmark, which I’d have to say seems justified, although I don’t know a lot about the jazz-rock fusion genre. Landmark or whatever you want to call it,…
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Speed Bumps and the End of Civilization There’s a lot one could say about the publication by National Review of a list of what they consider to be the top fifty conservative pop songs. I find this in general to be an odd thing to do, but one thing that struck me as significant was…
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I started doing this partly as a means of getting a grip on the overwhelming amount of music I've accumulated over the past several years, and partly just because I enjoy it. The accumulation is mainly a result of subscribing to eMusic, also of the wide range of used CDs available in local stores and…
Light On Dark Water 