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Continue reading →: John Dewey H.S.: A Love Letter …
On Facebook, my friend Stephen Boydstun, made the following query: You attended the John Dewey high school in Brooklyn, and I was wondering if there were differences in that school compared to other high schools that were advertised and how did its specialness stack up in your experience of it.…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1877
Song of the Day: 1983 Disconet Top Tune Medley [YouTube link], mixed by Mike Arato and John Matarazzo, captures the essence of a year in which dance music once again began to dominate the pop charts, led by the success of MJ‘s all-time best seller, “Thriller,” all of whose cuts…
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Continue reading →: Pearls Before Swine: Test Your Knowledge!
SPOILER ALERT: I can’t stand the pressure! Here’s the 21 I’ve uncovered: HI – Hawaii AL – Alabama MO – Missouri MA – Massachusetts PA – Pennsylvania LA – Louisiana AK – Alaska ME – Maine ID – Idaho OR – Oregon IN – Indiana OH – Ohio MD –…
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Continue reading →: I Want My MTV: 40 Years Later!
On this date, forty years ago, MTV was born and changed the sights and sounds of music. In tribute to what it used to be …
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1876
Song of the Day: 1982 Disconet Top Tune Medley [YouTube link], mixed by Casey Jones, is another one of my all-time favorite Disconet dance medleys. This is just a superb knitting together of dancefloor staples such as “Love Come Down“, “I Specialize in Love“, “Keep On“, “Planet Rock“, “Play at…
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Continue reading →: Harm Reduction vs. the “War on Drugs”
Like most libertarians, I’ve long argued that the government’s “war on drugs” is not only morally bankrupt and practically counterproductive, but also a leading contributing factor to the United States having the highest incarceration rate in the world. This weekend, in an Op-Ed in the “NY Times”, Maia Szalavitz explored…
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Continue reading →: Fight the Draft!
In the news: The Senate Armed Services Committee has approved, 23-2, the National Defense Authorization Act “that would, if enacted, require young women to register for Selective Service alongside men, and in the rare event of a war or other national emergency, be drafted for the first time in the…
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Continue reading →: RIP, Jackie Mason
A hilarious comic—who offended everybody with his irreverent politically incorrect humor—has died at the age of 93.
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Continue reading →: C4SS: Homonograph Reviewed
Eric Fleischmann—who is not just a student of my work and a very dear friend, but a very fine young scholar in his own right—offers a critical and provocative review of my monograph Ayn Rand, Homosexuality, and Human Liberation on the site of Center for a Stateless Society, which, not…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1875
Song of the Day: 1981 Disconet Top Tune Medley [YouTube link], mixed by Mike Arato (who DJ’d at Uncle Sam’s in Long Island!) and John Matarazzo, is a swirling compendium of some of the best hits of that year, including: “Pull Up to the Bumper“, “Nights“, “Try it Out“, “Give…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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