There’s not much I can say about this thing called rap. When exposed to recordings by the genre’s pioneering representatives (rap reps?), I reassured my radio presets that they were safe; there would be no reset of any preset to accommodate THAT stuff. And I say ‘stuff’ because I remain unpersuaded music is the proper … [Read more…]
Mark your calendars. Kanye West has recently launched a series of rockets carrying payloads of sanity gas. IF these weapons of mass construction reach a significant portion of Mr. West’s tens of millions of admirers, and IF the message they bear is heard and correctly interpreted, they have the potential to undo mega chunks of … [Read more…]
It started with Crest–the family choice. It was seriously backed-up-mouth-magic, according to the ads. I write out the following blurb from memory: “Crest has been shown to be an effective decay-preventive dentifrice that can be of significant value when used in a conscientiously applied program of oral hygiene and regular professional care.” –as per some … [Read more…]
I’m seriously interested in discovering whether American football fans have a scale of values which ranks truth, liberty, honor, history, reality, sacrifice and wisdom ABOVE a game. If there was ever a more transparent instance of hollow gliberalism, I can’t recall it. The NFL has decided they can empty their collective bladder on all Americans … [Read more…]
America never quite had firm and fixed class distinctions, such as those which were evident in the European nations which fed our colonies and founding states. Our early rhetoric–and our ensuing ownership of its implications, instead worked in the opposite direction. Now that we have succumbed to egalitarian rhetoric and convictions, now that we have … [Read more…]
Of all red-letter days on the American calendar, Thanksgiving is an easy pick for favorite–and that goes double for Christians. Why? To begin, I’d say that any semblance of observance of a feast with a name like this demands a personal God on the receiving end of those thanks. This is an implicit concession reaching … [Read more…]