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Dan Rather on the Iraq War
Dan Rather on the Iraq War. This is a real eye-opener.
A Strategic Blunder of Historic Proportions
Never forget. Or do we? Eighteen years ago, March 20, 2003, the United States began its second war against Iraq in a little over a decade. It is difficult to fully comprehend what led up to that point, or all that followed. We don’t talk much about Iraq now, beset by new crises that rightfully deman…
Cassette are coming back
HAIM rules!
Zac Snyder’s Proposed Five-Part Trilogy
An interesting look of what might have been if Zak Snyder had been allowed to finish his “five-part trilogy”…
SPOILERS AHEAD – if you haven’t yet watched the 4-hour Zak Snyder’s Justice League, read no further!
And a nice Chianti
If you are a fan of The Silence of the Lambs, this dual interview with Jodie Foster & Anthony Hopkins will thrill you. I had forgotten that it had swept the Oscars: Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, & Adapted Screenplay.
“It’s time to make an exception to the filibuster rule”
“As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 22, ‘To give a minority a negative upon the majority (which is always the case where more than a majority is requisite to a decision), is, in its tendency, to subject the sense of the greater number to that of the lesser.’ [The Founding Fathers] knew such built-in obstruction could doom a republic.”
Stacey Abrams: It’s time to make an exception to the filibuster rule
Stacey Abrams writes that nothing is more essential to the durability of our democracy than the ability to vote. Protection of that right has only one champion empowered to make it so -- the US Congress. The House has spoken. Now, she says, the Senate must lead.
R.E.M.’s Out of Time
A Long December
Adam Duritz from the Counting Crows may look different, but he sounds great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr4iix9-4oU&t=90s
