The music industry is struggling because so much of its product can be accessed for free, what with YouTube and “radio” sites such as Pandora (setting aside illegal downloads). But even when a person wants to buy music, it’s hard if you aren’t old enough
Kitty Wells, arguably the first big female star of country music (not counting the women in the Carter Family), died Monday at the age of 92. Here is her breakthrough song, a response to Hank Thompson’s “The Wild Side of Life,” in which the singer
The History News Network posts an earlier article by Edwin Black on the American eugenics movement and what it accomplished. Twenty-seven states adopted eugenics laws, with the biggest program to sterilize the “unfit” being established in California. Major funding for the eugenics movement came
What happens when pop culture addicts run your campaign: According to Paul Bedard at The Washington Examiner, the Obama campaign takes Batman’s new enemy Bane, a pumped up venom gas breathing maniac, in the movie “The Dark Knight Rises” and compares him to presumptive GOP
We blogged earlier about how online shopping sites have a big advantage over local businesses in not having to charge sales tax. So states and now Congress have been trying to pass laws to collect those taxes. Amazon used to fight those efforts, but no
I leave today for two weeks, in which time I will have three speaking engagements, attend a conference, and visit relatives in Oklahoma. I won’t be in the big woods, though, this time, and I do plan to keep my blog up the best I
You have perhaps heard about how the University of Virginia board fired the university president Teresa Sullivan, whereupon a huge uproar ensued, and she was hired back. I’ve heard conservatives lament the re-hiring, saying that the lunatics are in charge of the asylum, that this
We had another great sermon from Pastor Douthwaite on the death of John the Baptist (Mark 6:14-29). A sampling: John the Baptist never was at home in this world. He was an interloper. A stranger. A misfit. It began with his birth which was not
Metropolitan Jonah, the evangelical convert who became the head of the Orthodox Church of America (one of several Eastern Orthodox denominations in the U.S.), has been ousted from his office. The reason, reportedly, is his aggressive public stands against abortion, homosexuality, and other controversial moral
I really enjoyed yesterday digging up those old songs on YouTube, not just those that shed light on the article we were blogging about but also the ones you suggested in the comments. I was also trading songs back and forth off line, with my
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