The story of how Clapton created the song. I have to confess I like the slow version on Unplugged better, but then I’m more into acoustic in general.
Category Archives: History
The Divine Right Of The “Democratic” Party
Thoughts on the planned totalitarianism and oppression from Kevin Williamson. [Scare quotes in the post title mine.]
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More related links from Instapundit.
Eighteen Years On
It’s hard to believe it’s been that long, and we’ve been through a lot. We’ve created new ineffective and unaccountable bureaucracy, instituted ever-more intrusive government spying on citizens, subjected ourselves to humiliating security theater in order to get onto an aircraft (and into a museum, or government building). We have discovered or re-affirmed the arrogant, incompetent fecklessness of those who falsely consider themselves our moral and intellectual betters, on both sides of the aisle, to the degree that we now understand that there was really only one side of the aisle, a discovery that has given us in the White House a boorish, exaggerating, constitutionally and economically ignorant impulsive lout, indifferent to the truth who, yet, is still vastly preferable to anything else realistically on offer. The decline of our educational system, from kindergarten through grad school, continues apace, with a majority of young people, innocent of or being mistaught history, under the burden of a disastrous and cruel college loan program, now ignorantly desirous of the ideology that murdered tens of millions of people in the last century, and believing that the world will come to an end of we don’t ban the energy sources that have brought so many billions out of poverty over the past two centuries, and will continue to do so unless they get their wish.
I’ll probably update this post throughout the day with further thoughts and links, but to start, here’s something from a Millennial (who understandably hates the term): The side takers:
…if you want a pithy term for us, something that quickly defines us, the thing that our lives bent on, don’t call us Millennials. The turning of the millennium only mattered from the cozy confines of the 1990s, looking forward unaware of what was coming. Nobody who actually lived through that time can still honestly believe that’s the most important thing that occurred. But don’t call us 9/11ers either, obviously, or nobody in our generation will ever get to fly on a plane again.
No, call us the Side-Takers. We’re Generation Faction, Gen Polar, the Pick-A-Team Kids. We showed up to a cold civil war that far predated us just in time to pick our friends. 9/11 separated the future Tea Partier and MAGAmerican from future Anti-fa terrorists, because it was the moment we truly became aware that there were two very distinct kinds of Americans and the two did not reconcile easily. It shaped our whole lives, and I suspect that long after we’re all dead, we’ll be remembered— not for organic gluten-free soy infused everything, stupid haircuts, excessive beards, phone addiction or the social media epidemic—but for that.
[Via Sarah Hoyt]
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A Twitter thread from Joan of Aargghh:
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Thoughts on Flight 93, and the failure of the political establishment to make us afraid.
Also,
[Thursday-morning update]
More thoughts on the perfidy of the NYT from Jim Treacher, and Stephen Kruiser.
Plus, Mark Steyn on the language of losing.
Clinton-Libya And Trump-Russia
The Ghosts Of World War II
Eighty years after its beginning, it continues to haunt current events.
Boris Shows The Steel
…and Tory support doubles.
They’ve been waiting for a leader since Thatcher.
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Conrad Black: The European now know that they have to take BoJo seriously.
[Monday-afternoon update]
Unlike Corbyn, Tony Blair isn’t stupid. He can see that Boris is setting up a trap for Labour.
Jeffrey Epstein
Mickey Kaus on why it still matters. Yes, he is a symptom of the deep corruption of business, national, and world leadership.
Slavery
No, America did not invent it.
Such is the state of our educational system.
Brexit And Trump
How I learned to stop worrying about the first, and love the other.
The left seems determined to push us into Trump’s and BoJo’s arms.
Declassifying Obama-Era Documents
John Solomon has identified three more that should be.
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On the day that Horowitz reports on Comey’s crimes that will go unpunished, the latest on the depth of the FBI incompetence/corruption in the Clinton email felonies.
[Link to Byron York’s report added]
[Update mid-afternoon]
The IG report slams Comey. And deservedly so.
[Friday-morning update]
Comey wants an apology? This is myth becoming madness.
[Update mid-afternoon]
It was an attempted failed shakedown of Trump by Comey and the Intel community.