Monday, October 21, 2013

One Last Thing

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Sam Harris, perhaps the originator of the new atheism as a "thing" has attempted to abduct Malala and force her to be part of his...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

Been Under The Weather

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It's a close thing, between getting old and getting sick.  I used to tease my nephews and nieces that being middle aged was a lot like h...
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Found Topical Poem

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W hen the video clip was clicked on, of Jon Stewart's interview with Malala Yousafzai, in which she said: I used to think that the Ta...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Anyone Who Thinks The New Atheists Could Flip Texas Is Delusional

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J oan Walsh has an excellent column in Salon in which she debunks the absurd stories about how in the aftermath of the tea party almost cra...
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Dionisio Aguado Andante and Rondo in a minor, op 2 #2

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Michael LeFevre Guitar Score   beginning on page 5

A None's Story: An Example of The Consistent Misrepresentation of Survey Results In The Media

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D uring a cancelled lesson today, I turned on the radio and heard one of my pet peeves.  I've heard this one often enough that it can se...
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The Margin of the Future

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I hope someday soon Barack Obama will ask himself what the past five years could have been like if he'd not tried the incredibly stupid...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Had to Stack Wood Most of the Day Before The Rain

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Sorry, no new post today.  Here's a repeat from my old blog Restoring Virility With Goat Glands Selling Nazis Air Time “Dr.” John Bri...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Since Someone Asked Here Are Some Baroque Guitar Sources

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T he recent look into the baroque guitar posted here has been quite a surprise to me.  So much of the tablature for the music is available o...
Monday, October 14, 2013

And Now For Something Completely Different

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Padre Davide da Bergamo - Sounatina I dare you not to smile.

Pagans Have A Right To Their Beliefs And Harmless Practices But Not To Falsify History

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I have a some affection for Pagans, the modern type who engage in nature worship of the most gentle kind.   I've repeatedly spoken up f...
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Sunday, October 13, 2013

Corbetta Suite - Jeffrey McFadden

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I nteresting coincidence, I didn't know when I posted that piece yesterday that I'd come across this Youtube of Jeffrey McFadden p...

More About the Baroque Guitar And It's Music

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A n e-mail asks me for more information about  the baroque guitar and  the beautiful, mysterious passacaille by Francesco Corbetta posted he...

Thich Nhat Hanh's Engaged Buddhism

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T hich Nhat Hanh is the kind of religious celebrity who doesn't seem to get wrapped up in celebrity and who, for me at least, hasn't...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Francesco Corbetta Passacaille

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Israel Golani Baroque Guitar
Friday, October 11, 2013

Better Without Pictures

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H ere is an interesting thing,  a reading theater versions of Sophocles' play Philoctetes, presented by The Philoctetes Center For the I...

Alternet: Too Busy Hating To Make Progress

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I t would be a hard determination to make that it is the biggest one, but it's my impression that the often useful news accumulator site...
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Charles Ives - Symphony n.4 - I. Prelude: Maestoso

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I don't usually post parts of pieces but I've recently been asked to write a setting of Lowell Mason's "Morning Star"...

Republican Racism Will Be the Major Issue of the History of the Obama Administration

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W hen the history of the Obama administration is written, the major issue will be how the Republican establishment, the media, the oligarchs...
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Arnold Schönberg: Moses und Aron

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Update:  I just saw that I misspelled Aron by spelling it right.   Schoenberg was famously afraid of the number between 12 and 14, so he ...