Don’t tell the thought police, but I wonder sometimes what the world might look like had Beethoven and Stravinsky simply been piano players and not composers. If Abe Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. hadn’t had the gift of writing… hell, what if Tom Jefferson had had his heart, ideas and ideals, but was […]
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I stumbled across this new track by Randy Newman on iTunes, and I think it’s a perfect followup to the previous (much more serious and ominous) article by Chalmers Johnson, now that we’re on the subject of Empire. (See below.)
Randy […]
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