Monthly Archives: March 2020

Question

March 30, 2020 – 12:31 pm

I’ll confess that all this self-isolation has hardly been difficult for me. I’m a homebody by nature anyway, and having an excuse not to go anywhere suits me fine. I’ve been reading a lot, walking in the woods, cooking, and spending a lot of time on various musical projects downstairs in the studio. One thing […]

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Rashomon, Redux

March 29, 2020 – 1:47 pm

In response to Friday’s post about the different emotional reactions of Democrats and Republicans to the Wuhan-virus pandemic, our longtime commenter, the indefatigable JK, posted a link to a thoughtful essay on the topic. I though it worth promoting to a post of its own, so here it is.

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Rashomon

March 27, 2020 – 12:23 pm

Make of this what you will:

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Pronoia

March 26, 2020 – 6:46 pm

With a hat-tip to our pal Bill Keezer, here’s a rumination by Victor Davis Hanson on the challenge facing Donald Trump in the coming weeks and months.

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Sure, Whatever

March 25, 2020 – 11:24 pm
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A Genius, Perhaps, And I’m Not Kidding

March 25, 2020 – 11:09 pm

As a person with a long career in the music biz, I am often asked who I think is interesting, and worth giving a listen (keeping in mind that there is a lot of interesting music out there that most people simply wouldn’t “get”). I often mention King Crimson, because Fripp and company have maintained […]

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And I Think To Myself, What A Wonderful World

March 23, 2020 – 11:22 pm

Kind of a slow news day today, but here are a couple of items: First, we’ve all heard that things seems to be getting better in China, with Wuhan-virus deaths tapering off. We’ve heard it, that is, but we also know that the Chinese government, which lies about everything, is almost certainly lying about this […]

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Overkill?

March 22, 2020 – 11:18 pm

I’m coming increasingly to the conclusion that our reaction to this Wuhan virus, if it keeps the economy comatose for any appreciable length of time, will do more damage than anything the disease itself might have wrought. On the more benign end of the scale, we have at minimum a crisis that has already been […]

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The War That Wasn’t

March 21, 2020 – 8:02 pm

People have been likening the economic devastation caused by this health crisis to the effects of war. Here’s a thought that occurred to me today: in the aftermath of wars (or other great disasters), a major part of the economic recovery consists of rebuilding all the infrastructure that’s been destroyed. (After World War II, the […]

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Rolling The Dice

March 20, 2020 – 11:24 pm

The great Black Swan of our age has alighted upon our shores, and it catches us at the end of a great historical anomaly: an era of peace, safety and prosperity of such uncommon length that most of us have never known anything else. (This goes a long way, as I’ve argued elsewhere, to explaining […]

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You Go To War With The Army You Have

March 18, 2020 – 9:50 pm

A young person, someone I am very fond of and have known for many years, wrote me today with a harsh assessment of Donald Trump, surprised and disappointed that I would defend such a man against some of the charges recently leveled against him in the press. Mr. Trump, in my correspondent’s opinion, is “a […]

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Common Sense In A Time Of Hysteria

March 17, 2020 – 2:18 pm

Here’s a brief video from an infectious-disease specialist. Well worth watching.

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Back

March 17, 2020 – 2:18 pm

Having survived our trip to Charleston (a beautiful place, as we expected), we are now hunkered down in the remote precincts of our little peninsula in the North Atlantic. Self-isolation comes naturally to me. Confining myself to the basement music studio, a comfy chair with a book to read, and contemplative hikes in the nearby […]

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Service Notice

March 11, 2020 – 12:00 pm

The lovely Nina and I are off to Charleston, SC for a few days. (We’d heard it’s nice, so we thought we’d go and see for ourselves.) Back next week.

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American Juche

March 11, 2020 – 11:58 am

Over at American Greatness, Chris Buskirk discusses what Wuhan coronavirus should teach us about self-reliance. Here.

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Well!

March 10, 2020 – 11:36 pm

How about that Joe Biden? Two weeks ago — just two weeks! — he was all washed up. Now he’s the last man standing. Amazing. The problem, though, is that nobody really thinks he is fit for purpose. His accelerating slide into a pitiable and disqualifying caducity is increasingly plain to see, every time he […]

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Scotland

March 10, 2020 – 4:25 pm

Och aye. (Full screen recommended.)

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Going Viral

March 9, 2020 – 7:41 pm

I haven’t commented much on this Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. Clearly it is a serious issue, but it is just as clear that it is being whipped up as much as possible by our domestic media to create fear and chaos, in the interest of hanging a millstone around Donald Trump’s neck. When the swine flu […]

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Idiocracy

March 6, 2020 – 11:48 am

Making the rounds today:   These imbeciles are our cultural overlords. Perhaps this will serve as a reminder that they only have what power we give them.

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What Have We Learned?

March 5, 2020 – 11:35 am

The billionaire Michael Bloomberg is a world-famous former three-term mayor (and wealthiest resident) of America’s principal city. He also commands a global media empire. He just spent half a billion dollars in an attempt to win the coming election, and accomplished nothing more than to win a primary in American Samoa. So: next time you […]

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Impeach This

March 2, 2020 – 10:05 pm

I don’t know how Victor Davis Hanson manages to produce essays and articles at the rate he does; it’s awfully impressive in terms of volume alone. It’s even more impressive when they are as meaty as the one he published yesterday at American Greatness: a blistering recap of the Obama administration’s eight-year spree of executive […]

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