I Wish It Would Rain
I heard “I Wish It Would Rain” by the Temptations at the cafeteria at work today. It is a truly spectacular song. If you have three minutes, I can think of no better way to spend it. When it was playing, I couldn’t help but think how well everything works. The performance and the arrangement…
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Re-de-segregation?
Today, as I do most everyday, I was scrolling through 3 Quarks Daily. In case you don’t know, it’s an excellent site. Once a week, on Monday, they have a collection of original essays. The rest of the week, they are a high quality aggregator. Instead of the usual headlines, they tend to feature longer works dealing with…
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Blurry Lines
A couple years ago, I discovered that Kirk Cameron’s father in “Growing Pains” had a kid who had a hit song. I’ve never heard the song, but I read an article about the fact that he was pre-emptively suing Marvin Gaye’s estate so that the courts would certify that he had not stolen one of…
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My Semi-Annual Daylight Saving Rant
I hate Daylight Saving Time. I hate everything about it. It makes my electric bill go up. It means I have to try to wake up and wake my daughter up while it is still dark. It means I have to try to put my daughter to sleep while it is still light. It takes…
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Lies My Economist Told Me
There’s this weird feature in life where if people say things often enough, they become common knowledge and people stop questioning them. The world of economics has raised the art of creating truths like this to its pinnacle. We all know that governments are no good at picking winners. We all know that regulation hurts business. …
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Orrin Keepnews
Orrin Keepnews died today, just one day shy of his 92nd birthday. I knew his work, of course, but I went to his Discogs page just to look around and I was totally blown away. He is credited on 752 records for production. And a huge percentage of those are absolute classics. There’s Monk, Sonny…
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February
Today is the last day of February. That also means I have written a post here every day this month. I wanted to see if I could post that often. It meant that most of the posts were short. It also meant that most were essentially first drafts, but I’m satisfied that I met my…
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Mr. Spock
I’m sure you have heard that Leonard Nimoy died. I, like almost everyone else, will forever think of him as Mr. Spock. And I, unlike most people, will forever think of Mr. Spock as my first philosophy teacher. Of course everyone associates Spock, and all Vulcanians (that’s what they were called in the original TV…
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The Left – Environmentalism
The other day, I published a post about how stupid the Left side of the political spectrum is. My point was basically that they fail to convince people of even the most obvious things. I got a comment suggesting that I make the arguments. I don’t get too many comments, so I figured I’d give it…
