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Continue reading →: Derek Jeter: Baseball Hall of Famer
2020 inductee to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Derek Jeter, finally gets his moment in the spotlight on Wednesday, September 8th in Cooperstown, where the ceremony, postponed from last year, will take place at 1:30 p.m. Jeter spent his entire 20-year baseball career with the New York Yankees as their…
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Continue reading →: WTC Remembrance: Twenty Years Later
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Since 2001, I have been writing annual installments to a series that came to be known as “Remembering the World Trade Center.” My 2021 installment encapsulates all of the previous entries in the series, revisiting my…
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Continue reading →: “Kill the Mothers, That’ll Stop Them!”
This week, the United States Supreme Court refused to block a Texas law (Senate Bill 8) that went into effect on 1 September 2021, which effectively criminalized any abortions that take place six weeks into a pregnancy. But the bill goes a lot further. As Newsweek reported: “The law does…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1884 (and Happy Birthday to My Sister!)
Song of the Day: The “S.O.S. III” SOLAR Disconet Medley [YouTube link], mixed by Robert F. Gregory, Fernando Fernandez, and Jose Crep Nunez, features the soulful “Sound of Los Angeles” (from which the SOLAR record label created its acronym). This medley offers some of the best R&B dance music of…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1883
Song of the Day: The Jackson 5 Medley [YouTube link] features the first three #1 hits of The Jackson 5. This is where it all began. Check out another classic Jackson medley, performed live at the “Motown 25” Celebration in 1983 (with a solo “Billie Jean” thrown in for good…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1882
Song of the Day: 1986 Disconet Top Tune Medley [YouTube link], mixed by Tuta Aquino, features some of the biggest pop, dance, and alternative hits of that year by such artists as The Human League, Gwen Guthrie, Level 42, Simply Red, Michael McDonald, Pet Shop Boys, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Holliday,…
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Continue reading →: Coronavirus (34): “Virtue Signaling” vs. Doing the Right Thing
On Facebook, I adopted a frame that put forth a very specific message: I will state it for the record why I posted this because it is not the equivalent of “virtue signaling”. Given that I’m a self-described “dialectical libertarian” and that there has been an epidemic of COVID-denialism among…
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1881
Song of the Day: 1985 Disconet Top Tune Medley [YouTube link], mixed by the wonderful Arato–Matarazzo duo again, takes us from soulful 105 sleaze-beats-per-minute to HiNRG 138 BPMs. Among its scorching dance hits, we find “Too Turned On“, “Who’s Zoomin’ Who?“, “Thinking About Your Love“, “Do You Wanna Get Away“,…
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Continue reading →: Pearls Before Swine: Health Insurance Redux
Pearls Before Swine (by Stephan Pastis) has given us some gems on U.S. health insurance problems in the past. So this one expands on that theme …
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