1 … 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 … 30

Comments

    That's what I've always had to remind myself whenever I get "frustrated" with one or another WH semi-fuckup. Obama is…
  •  View post
    • No Donnie, these men are cowards.
  •  View post
    • Sometimes it's hard to not take stuff like this personally, even though I really ought to know better, because I'm…
  •  View post
    • Your comments are consistently some of the most insightful stuff I've ever read. Thanks TD.
  •  View post
    • Boredom is a state of mind. You get there yourself and you get out of there by yourself. I wasn't…
  •  View post
    • I fall off the idealism wagon into cynicism all the time, and then claw my way back up almost as…
  •  View post
    • Fear has been a part of the American psyche ever since we stole the natives' land and enslaved Africans, and…
  •  View post
    • Well ok then. Thanks for being patient with me & elaborating.
  •  View post
    • Well...we're all living in the past, Arthur--because the past ain't past. I know you know this. Who do we study…
  •  View post
    • Orpheus got a raw deal too.
  •  View post
    • So...Charlie Parker doesn't count? Billie Holiday? Bessie Smith? I could keep going too, but it would amount to just another…
  •  View post
    • Seconded on Elliott. I'd put the Buckleys in there too. The Roy Buchanan story that  Andrew Longman cited takes the…
  •  View post
    • Well, it could be worse. You could believe that hard bop was the best that music ever got, and that…
  •  View post
    • One of my biggest genius moments (or so I thought) as a musically dumb bass player was to put my…
  •  View post
    • I think that was a Mark Twain quote. Something like "history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."
  •  View post
    • Oh I know. I was trying and failing to be deadpan. And yeah, those were the pre-Southern Strategy days. Robinson…
  •  View post
    • I wasn't that surprised. I mean, Jackie Robinson had to stay cool for a few years, too. He was even…
  •  View post
    • The post about being poor is one of his masterpieces: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
  •  View post
    • "Say Libya again. SAY LIBYA again! I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker! Say Libya one more time."
  •  View post
    • I would pay good green American money to kick Romney in the junk, but he's have to get in line.…
  •  View post