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Category Archives: Video
Welcome to the Future of Space Flight
Now that NASA’s Space Shuttle program has ended, it no longer has the capability of manned space flight. Just as well, since the giant vertical thrust rockets that carried the various shuttles into orbit were a dangerous waste of money. Cheaper and … Continue reading
Posted in New Ideas, Progressives, Video
Tagged Burt Rutan, Paul Allen, Richard Branson, Space Flight, SpaceShipTwo, VirginGalactic
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Today’s Quotes: How Torture Happens
“With numbing regularity good people were seen to knuckle under the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe. Men who are in everyday life responsible and decent were seduced by the trappings of authority, by the … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatives, Fascism, Idiots, Quotes, Religion, Video, Wingnuts
Tagged Milgram Experiment, Stanley Milgram, Steven Weinberg, Torture
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Jon Stewart on What Rick Perry Will Do To America
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Posted in Bizarre But Real, Christopublicans, Conservatives, Idiots, Politics, Religion, Republicans, Teabaggers, Video, Wingnuts
Tagged Jon Stewart, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, The Daily Show
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Canada’s Next Prime Minister: Stephen Lewis
Sure, Conservative Party PM Stephen Harper nabbed another four-year term in the May elections up in Canada, but the real news is that the progressive New Democratic Party has replaced the wheezy and corrupt Liberal Party as the Official Opposition, unseating … Continue reading
Honeyboy Edwards Dead at 96
…he was the last of the old Delta bluesmen with a connection to Robert Johnson — he had played with Johnson back in the ’30s. R.I.P. Honeyboy. Here are two videos and the obit from Howard Reich at the Chicago Tribune: Honeyboy with … Continue reading
Posted in Blues, Music, Video
Tagged Honeyboy Edwards, Howard Reich, John Hammond, Obit
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‘Use Me’ by Bill Withers
Bill Withers, a native of the pastoral West Virginia hellhole of ‘Slab Fork,’ was working on an aircraft company assembly line in L.A. in 1970 and submitting demos of his music to record companies. A small company named Sussex Records … Continue reading
Today’s Quote Two-Fer: Bill Hicks, Words and Video
Bill Hicks wasn’t a stand-up comic like Jerry Seinfeld, and he didn’t tell jokes; he used spike-in-the-eye satire to make his philosophical points, and he told the raw truth as he saw it, which didn’t make him popular in the … Continue reading
Two by Wes Montgomery
What can you say about Wes Montgomery (born John Leslie Montgomery in 1923) except that he’s a jazz genius who influenced everyone from jazz masters Kenny Burrell to George Benson to rock-blues virtuosos like Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn … Continue reading
Posted in Blues, Jazz, Music, Rock, Video
Tagged Four On Six, Impressions, Jazz Guitar, Wes Montgomery
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Compared to What? Les McCann and Eddie Harris
Jazz greats Les McCann and tenor saxman Eddie Harris had an unexpected Billboard hit with this one back in 1969 and it still grooves today, both lyrically and musically. ‘Tryin’ to make it real, compared to what?’ could have been … Continue reading