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    Decision 2024 (IV): Kamala, cOmMuNIsm, and Coconuts

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    August 22, 2024

    Having been preoccupied with the Olympics and other fun activities in August, I returned to the Presidential race this week, giving as much attention to the Democratic National Convention as I did the Republican one. At the very least, I can report that I’ll take Stevie Wonder over Lee Greenwood…

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  • Culture, Politics (Theory, History, Now), Rand Studies, Religion, Sexuality

    Confronting Bigotry, Fighting for the Marginalized

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    August 21, 2024

    Yesterday, after posting my review of Alexandra Popoff’s new book, Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success, there was a spirited discussion on my Facebook timeline concerning some of the issues raised. The engagement enabled me to incorporate a few corrections to my review and I was happy to give…

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  • Rand Studies, Religion, Sexuality

    Ayn Rand: The Jewish Radical?

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    August 20, 2024

    Review of Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success, by Alexandra Popoff. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2024, 264 pp, notes, index Back in 2002, Jeff Walker, author of The Ayn Rand Cult (1999), sent me an unfinished manuscript tentatively titled The Jewish/Nietzschean Worldview of Ayn Rand. Sadly,…

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  • Film / TV / Theater Review, Rand Studies, Remembrance

    RIP, Phil Donahue

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    August 19, 2024

    Another passing to note. Growing up, I watched so many installments of his TV show on weekday afternoons (including two wild interviews with Ayn Rand here and here). RIP, Phil Donahue. A discussion of Phil Donahue and his impact can be found on my Facebook thread.

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  • Culture, Food, Remembrance

    Remembering Randazzo Founder

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    August 19, 2024

    RIP, Paul Randazzo Sr., the founder of the classic Randazzo’s, which still operates in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. You’ll find a photo of the restaurant in my previously posted YouTube slideshow tribute to Sheepshead Bay and Manhattan Beach.

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  • Culture, Frivolity

    Dedicated to the Flat Earthers!

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    August 16, 2024

    Flat Earthers Beware! Courtesy Pearls Before Swine

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  • Music, Remembrance

    Song of the Day #2140

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    August 16, 2024

    Song of the Day: Peace Piece [YouTube link], composed by the great jazz pianist Bill Evans, is a pastoral improvisation that appears on the 1958 album “Everybody Digs Bill Evans“. Its sound inspired Miles Davis, who featured Evans on four tracks of the profoundly influential 1959 album “Kind of Blue“.…

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  • Sports

    300 HRs: All Rise for the Judge!

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    August 15, 2024

    All Rise! Aaron “Judge became the quickest player to reach 300 career home runs, doing so in 955 games and eclipsing Ralph Kiner’s mark of 1,087 games. He also did it in the fewest number of at-bats, achieving the task in 3,431. It took the previous record holder, Babe Ruth,…

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  • Film / TV / Theater Review, Remembrance

    Gena Rowlands, RIP

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    August 14, 2024

    The gifted actress, Gena Rowlands, died today at the age of 94. From “A Woman Under the Influence” (1974) to “An Early Frost” (1985), and so many other films, she was one of the all-time greats.

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  • Culture, Film / TV / Theater Review, Music

    I Love Brooklyn #5 / Song of the Day #2139

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    August 13, 2024

    Song of the Day: That’s Amore, music by Harry Warren, lyrics by Jack Brooks, was a huge hit as the signature tune of Dean Martin, who recorded his studio version of the song on this summer date in 1953. The song was first heard, however, in the Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis…

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