Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Friday, June 28, 2013
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Mummies, Zombies, and Climbers, Oh My!
Watch Full Episode on PBS. See more from Cave People of the Himalaya.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Happy Birthday, Angel-Pie!
The birdies are all singing it:
Dora and her friends all wish you a happy birthday, too!
Dora and her friends all wish you a happy birthday, too!
Friday, November 30, 2012
Songs in a Dying Language
Today is St. Andrew's Day.
Julie Fowlis's USA Spring Tour kicks off in Virginia in April. She'll be at Strathmore April 15th.
Julie Fowlis's USA Spring Tour kicks off in Virginia in April. She'll be at Strathmore April 15th.
Friday, November 23, 2012
"Anyway, I had this incredible fantasy life."
We saw this (live, the musical, not the movie). I think it was 1983 in New York...
No video uploaded to utube alas, and Amazon doesn't have the DVD (dammit), but here's the song At the Ballet:
In case you had forgotten that Trisha Yearwood is awesome (sadly, I had):
My eyes are not dry. Miss you, Mom.
No video uploaded to utube alas, and Amazon doesn't have the DVD (dammit), but here's the song At the Ballet:
In case you had forgotten that Trisha Yearwood is awesome (sadly, I had):
My eyes are not dry. Miss you, Mom.
Monday, November 19, 2012
"Margaret Thatcher was my mother."
"It's kind of easy to patronize the past to forgo our responsibilities in the present."
Monday, November 12, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
In Keeping with the Theme of Too-Rich People Behaving Stupidly...
One of my fav movies from back-when...
Henry Kravis: "Debt can be an asset. Debt tightens a company."
Ross Johnson: "Does wonders for the sphincter, too."
Henry Kravis: "Debt can be an asset. Debt tightens a company."
Ross Johnson: "Does wonders for the sphincter, too."
PBS Author Interview: Sheila Bair (Bull by the Horns)
She probably wasn't allowed to title it "Bullshit by the Horns". ;)
Watch Former Regulator Bair Recounts Stories of Financial Crisis on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Friday, July 13, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
For Blanka, who loves Truth. And Movies, sometimes.
Background: The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was written in 1962 by Ken Kesey. The (classic) film, released in 1975, was directed by Milos Forman, who had immigrated from still-communist Czechoslovakia in 1968. (He also directed Amadeus, which was also great.)
Personal background: I was very moved during the Velvet Revolution by watching days of huge crowds gathered peacefully on the streets of Prague. This was about 6 months after I (finally) graduated from college and about a month after I had moved into my apartment on St. Paul Street, across from Penn Station, a couple blocks south of North Avenue in Baltimore. (So, not the best neighborhood, you couldn't park on the street without getting your window busted & my landlady put bars on the building's windows shortly after I moved in, but I was young and it was just me & a cocker spaniel and a cat, so what did I care?) Day after day on the news, I saw so many people staying so sane, and there were stories of the PA equipment being used to locate parents of misplaced children and so forth. I recall being very impressed that so many people had gathered so peacefully, and I even remember thinking that if that many people gathered in Los Angeles (just pulling an American city out of the air), it would be a riot. (The L.A. Riots happened 3 years later in 1992, around the time of what the BBC calls here "The Velvet Divorce".)
Finally, the post itself: This talented film director of classic films, Milos Forman, has pointed out in the New York Times that all of the name-calling of President Obama's platform and accomplishments as "Socialism" isn't just the ho-hum hyperbole we expect and ignore in an election year. It isn't just inaccurate. It is a profound "misunderestimation" (to throw out a classic Bush-ism) of world history, and ignoring such nonsense just because we know it's nonsense (and assume everyone else does) isn't right.
Thank you, Mr. Forman, for speaking up. We needed to hear that from an authentic voice such as yours.
Personal background: I was very moved during the Velvet Revolution by watching days of huge crowds gathered peacefully on the streets of Prague. This was about 6 months after I (finally) graduated from college and about a month after I had moved into my apartment on St. Paul Street, across from Penn Station, a couple blocks south of North Avenue in Baltimore. (So, not the best neighborhood, you couldn't park on the street without getting your window busted & my landlady put bars on the building's windows shortly after I moved in, but I was young and it was just me & a cocker spaniel and a cat, so what did I care?) Day after day on the news, I saw so many people staying so sane, and there were stories of the PA equipment being used to locate parents of misplaced children and so forth. I recall being very impressed that so many people had gathered so peacefully, and I even remember thinking that if that many people gathered in Los Angeles (just pulling an American city out of the air), it would be a riot. (The L.A. Riots happened 3 years later in 1992, around the time of what the BBC calls here "The Velvet Divorce".)
Finally, the post itself: This talented film director of classic films, Milos Forman, has pointed out in the New York Times that all of the name-calling of President Obama's platform and accomplishments as "Socialism" isn't just the ho-hum hyperbole we expect and ignore in an election year. It isn't just inaccurate. It is a profound "misunderestimation" (to throw out a classic Bush-ism) of world history, and ignoring such nonsense just because we know it's nonsense (and assume everyone else does) isn't right.
Thank you, Mr. Forman, for speaking up. We needed to hear that from an authentic voice such as yours.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Ideas Worth Spreading (or not): The True Job Creators
"If the median household income had kept pace with the economy since 1970, it would now be nearly $92,000, not $50,000."
Things that make you go hmmm...: The TED folks found this too "political" to post on their web-site, but then posted it to YouTube after some finger-wagging. The TED Talk that identified Native Americans on reservations as prisoners of war and suggested we should honor the Laramie treaties and give the Lakota territory back was not too political to post (thankfully), but this Rich-Guy-Copernicus pointing out that the economy does not really revolve around rich guys is too political. Tch!
Things that make you go hmmm...: The TED folks found this too "political" to post on their web-site, but then posted it to YouTube after some finger-wagging. The TED Talk that identified Native Americans on reservations as prisoners of war and suggested we should honor the Laramie treaties and give the Lakota territory back was not too political to post (thankfully), but this Rich-Guy-Copernicus pointing out that the economy does not really revolve around rich guys is too political. Tch!
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