Disclaimer: Some of my best friends are black. No, seriously. It’s become trite to talk about race issues in terms of opportunity. It’s very typical to say that certain minority groups, including African Americans, need to be given more opportunity — in education, in business, in management, in coaching. But, I think we misperceive what […]
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Arizona Remembered
Whirlwind week past. Atlanta to Knoxville to Lexington. Couple rap blogs. Some TX notoriety. A birthday. Bunch of no-good college brats at my crib last night. National Championship game tonight. I’m heading to Charleston this week. Oh, and my job. It will be dicey this week but I’ll do my best to make sure your […]
Camp 22
It’s easy to Team America mock the Dear Leader. He looked and behaved a fool. And, it’s a credit to the complexity of the human psyche that, merely as a function of physical and emotional distance, we so easily dismember the comedy of a totalitarian murderer from the tragedy he imposed. Kim Jong Il operated […]
A Deathbed Confessional
I don’t have the time to say all that I’d like to about Christopher Hitchens. It’s an especially strange thing to have to make these comments, about maybe the most famous atheist in the world, the week before the Christmas holiday. And, yet, for me personally, it’s all somehow perfectly fitting. Over the past 2 […]
5280 Feet
I tried to delay this topic. Actually, that’s not true at all. I was never going to address it. Didn’t even feel any real pressure to. I had a couple folks ask me about him on Twitter but wasn’t inspired. And, that’s not because I don’t cover sports or am somehow above a cheap human […]
Taking Damage
I’m telling you, this is the future of music right here. Song blogging. I love it. People can just imagine a song topic they’d like to hear done, and I oblige. It’s greatly invigorating. Others will eventually do it better. Just remember, it started here first. I received a request concerning a song topic. Sam, […]
Top Flight
In its “Americans of the Year” Edition, Esquire has given Mark Kelly the cover. Kelly is the husband of Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, who was shot earlier this year at a public appearance, along with others. He has been noble at her side. And, she has made an against-all-odds recovery, even so far as […]
64 Squares
I’ve been wanting to do this since the inception of the site. I thought a book review would be a fresh angle for a contemporaneous song blog. Only problem, all the books I’ve been reading were of a number of years old and, therefore, not particularly timely for doing a relevant blog. Brian Greene’s, Elegant […]
Homecoming
I had no plan to circle back to the Penn State story. I had mentioned it on Monday. But, the situation continues to escalate. It’s tragic on all fronts. For the victims most of all. I am typically intentional to put myself, and not just for the exercise of it, in the shoes of the […]
Playing Soccer
The experiment of this site has been largely to write the news in song. But, one of the reasons it exists is to provide outlet for songs too niche to use anywhere else or, in some instances, to make at all. I used to have people say, “Why don’t you write a World Cup rap?” […]
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