“I hit the city and I lost my band. I know that some of you don’t understand.”-Neil Young (hat tip to ML “Howlin” Wolfe in Ovieda, Spain) Oh, how I miss my band. It’s been a lingering, slowly simmering feeling of loss. I just loved everything about it. The music, the camaraderie, the gigs, the […]

I thought this was a very wise and insightful article in the Economistabout why we should be recruiting highly educated immigrants instead of cracking down on their visas. Just scroll down to “Idiocracy” and check it out.

We went down to Delaware a week or two ago to see Emma as Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun — or half of Annie Oakley,anyhow. In the first half of the play Annie was a tall statuesque African American girl. There was an intermission and Annie morphed into a lovely short poised Jewish […]

So I obviously haven’t been writing much up here. There are a lot of factors. For one thing, i don’t really have much of a sense that there’s anyone reading this and that tends to drain one’s enthusiasm and motivation. But it is important for me to write because writing begets writng and thinking begets […]

I thought I would post this here instead of as a response but I am responding to comment on previous post… You raise lots of good points. I am nt a political writer, nor do I aspire to be. This was not deep analysis but off the cuff thoughts as I watched the speech. When […]