By Mark | February 15, 2012
Here, while I’m working on my epic post about the showdown shaping up between Romney and Santorum in Michigan, is a trailer for a new film about those Nazis that have been biding their time on the dark side of the Moon. [You know how we’re always talking about the Finnish education model on this […]
Gill Scott Herron died a few days ago. I was going to commemorate his passing with The Revolution Will Not be Televised, but, seeing as how most of us reading this site are living in SE Michigan, I thought that I’d go with his anti-nuclear power song, We Almost Lost Detroit, which is particularly pertinent […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Observations, Politics | Also tagged another famous person has died, bluesology, brilliant troubled musicians, Fukushima Daiichi, Gil Scott-Heron, godfather of rap, Japan, Jazz, manned space flight, NASA, nuclear power, poverty, rap, space shuttle, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, We Almost Lost Detroit, whitey, Whitey on the Moon |
Joe Scarborough, this morning on MSNBC, challenged Barack Obama to be aggressive on alternative energy in his address to the nation tomorrow night. Like me, Scarborough wants Obama to channel the spirit of John F. Kennedy, who in 1961 announced that we’d put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, and […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Politics | Also tagged BP, Cheney's secretive energy task force, Dick Cheney, energy independence, health care reform, Joe Scarborough, John F. Kennedy, John Heilemann, Morning Joe, Obama, oil, oil spill, single-payer system |
A few days ago, we were talking here on the site about the Governor of Texas, and some comments that he had made concerning the possibility of secession. I think I mentioned at the time that I’d be all for it, given the good folks of Austin were given enough time to pack their belongings […]
Posted in Church and State, Global Warming, Observations, Politics, Religious Extremism | Also tagged Austin, Bill Nye "The Science Guy", booing, diseased limb hacking, Genesis 1:16, Iran, Islamic Revolution, Let Texas Go, let Texas secede, secession, the sun |