Beverly LaHaye is dead and it is worth noting that she was one of the worst living Americans, someone who made the world much worse for her being born. In the 1980s, Mrs. LaHaye ran an office in Washington of more than 25 employees, including...
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The Allman Brothers completely hold up as a great band and Dickey Betts is a major reason why. I can't say I'm shocked that the members of this band aren't.
If Al Gore had selected Bob Graham in 2000 instead of pandering to right-wing "moral voters" by picking Joe Lieberman, he almost certainly wins Florida and thus the election. Good.
Before too much time passes here, I want to mention the death of the great filmmaker Robert Young. He was not that widely known, though a far more interesting and.
Even before Curb Your Enthusiasm, on which Richard Lewis was absolute gold, he was a total legend of comedy. RIP. I appreciate how about a minute into that final clip,.
I will have thoughts on that asshole Toby Keith in the next music notes, but I am not waiting to remember a much greater musical figure--Mojo Nixon, who died of a heart attack while on a country music cruise after playing a show. Mojo was...
Big loss here. MC5 is one of the seminal bands of rock and roll history. Kramer was a great guitarist. Kramer and the rest of the band had great politics.
We have lost Tom Wilkinson, one of the great character actors of the last half-century. He was fantastic in so many films--In the Bedroom, The Full Monty, Michael Clayton, evidently.
Wow, a huge loss to the world of comedy and to the world of weird 60s America. And of course the politics of the Smothers Brothers were all the way good.
I may be very critical of Jimmy Carter's presidency, but there's no question that he had one of the great marriages and political partnerships of all time. People forget just.
I have had trouble finishing my Music Notes posts lately. The problem is that they take a lot of time and I am trying to finish a book manuscript here..