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Continue reading →: Ravitch, Rand, and CRT: The Ominous Parallels?
I introduced this blog post on Facebook with the following preface: Okay, here’s something that should piss off people on both sides of the Critical Race Theory debate. The merits of CRT matter less to me than the central point of this blog entry: That somebody as far away from…
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Continue reading →: Pearls Before Swine: Remote Learning
Today’s “Pearls Before Swine” installment, courtesy of The New York Daily News and Stephan Pastis. I may not have all these remotes, but since I often misplace the ones I do have, I sure would like that last one!
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1874
Song of the Day: 1980 Disconet Top Tune Medley [YouTube link], produced by John Matarazzo and Mike Arato, features such dance gems as “Fame“, “Funkytown“, “Twilight Zone“, “Vertigo/Relight My Fire“, “Celebration“, “Love Sensation“, “Rapture“, “Upside Down“, and “Another One Bites the Dust“, drawing from the pop, alternative, and rock sounds…
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Continue reading →: Ski and Me: Update #3
Back in December 2020, I first posted on my sister’s medical adventures. Elizabeth Sciabarra (aka “Ms. Ski” to the thousands of students whose lives she touched as an educator for nearly fifty years) was taken seriously ill in mid-November. This was followed in mid-March by back surgery, which necessitated her…
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Continue reading →: Pete Alonso: HR Derby Champ Again!
I don’t care if you’re a Yankees fan (like me) or a Mets fan! Two cheers (for two consecutive wins) to the Mets’ Pete Alonso for winning the Home Run Derby again! Great show! And the kid’s got rhythm too (see below) —
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Continue reading →: JARS: Dedicating and Rededicating …
Over the last twenty-one years of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, we have lost key members of the JARS family. In 2005, one of our cofounders—the man with the vision to create this journal—Bill Bradford, passed away. This was followed by the deaths of original Advisory Board members Larry…
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Continue reading →: Props to Italy in Euro 2020!
It’s like the Fourth of July again in these parts of Brooklyn! Congratulations to Italy for winning Euro 2020!
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1873
Song of the Day: 1979 Disconet Top Tune Medley [YouTube link], mixed by Jersey native John Matarazzo and Brooklyn-born Mike Arato, is one of my all-time favorite Disconet gems. It was heard not only in clubs but played by Paco on “Disco 92, WKTU” in New York City, typically blaring…
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Continue reading →: Chestnut Reigns Again!
Joey Chestnut beat his own world record, by downing 76 hot dogs in the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Championship in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York!
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1872
Song of the Day: This Land is Your Land was given lyrics by Woody Guthrie over the melody of a Carter Family tune called “When the World’s On Fire.” Some folks have insisted this is some kind of “Marxist” response to Irving Berlin‘s “God Bless America.” Whatever its underlying politics,…
Chris Sciabarra, April 2022 Coney Island Parachute Jump, Brooklyn, New York
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