Joe Morello has rolled his last drum.
This version of the piece is faster than the recorded one, but I love Desmond’s sax solo on it. This is one of the tunes used as an example in my brief tutorial on time signatures a few years ago.
Raptors Of A Feather
It would be easy to think that Colonel Whathisname paid off Robert Mugabe, but I suspect that he just doesn’t like the potential precedent.
Dr. Seuss
“Hide The Decline”
…the fraud explained.
The Sea Reclaims The Land
It looks like models in a disaster movie, but it’s very real. Anyone not in a well-built high rise didn’t stand a chance.
There Will Never Be Peace In The Middle East
…as long as we continue to turn a blind eye to butchery. Anyone who thinks that “settlements” cause this is disconnected with regional reality.
Wrong About The King Hearings
An Open Letter To Davis Guggenheim
Don’t go back over to the Dark Side:
Guggenheim was right to make unions the villains of his film. But now that he’s starting to backpedal about collective bargaining, he’s getting heat from the reform community. There’s a bit of a mutiny on the “Waiting for ‘Superman’” Facebook page. The comments are decidedly opposed to Guggenheim’s view, with some supporters going so far as to say they’ll no longer promote the film.
Perhaps they’ll gravitate towards “Kids Aren’t Cars,” a film series that pulls no punches and shows the ugly impact collective bargaining has had on American public education.
It’s not too late to stop going wobbly.
Don’t Know Much About Geography
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute just released Enlightened Citizenship: How Civic Knowledge Trumps a College Degree in Promoting Active Civic Engagement, which shows that college has zero positive influence in encouraging graduates to become politically engaged — although many universities promote that in mission statements.
I’m not surprised, given how ignorant of it our elected representatives seem to be. Just another sign of the higher (and lower) education bubble and the worthlessness of many college (and high school) degrees. And of our educational system in general.
Vanity Press
I see that Mark Whittington has found a new place to self-publish his ever-illogical ignorance.
Note that the commenters are unremittingly clueless as well.
[Sunday afternoon update]
Just in case anyone ever bothers to read Mark’s web site, he is now (as often, and hilariously stupidly) claiming that I have “leaped the length of my” (imaginary, just like the “Internet Rocketeers Club”) “chain,” once again demonstrating his complete inability to accurately discern human emotions. He also accused me of lying, with zero basis, since I never claimed that he wasn’t being paid. But then, as always, reading comprehension has never been been his strong suit, either.