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I saw someone criticizing a very funny poster for making jokes instead of posting about politics, and I am reminded of a favorite line from E. B. White: We should strive not for balanced books but balanced libraries

submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments

Some of the best live Charlie Parker that exists on tape was captured on a broadcast recording made on this day in 1951 at Birdland with a nearly platonic ideal of a bebop band, including Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Tommy Potter, and Roy Haynes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBrD...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I see people comparing Trump to 1700s mercantilists. That’s not quite right. Even 18th century mercantilists knew that if you were trying to use tariffs to boost your trade surplus, you wanted to tax imports of *finished goods,* not the *inputs* www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/tru...

submitted 42 days ago • 41 comments

We could have had nice things

submitted 42 days ago • 31 comments

I notice Trump doesn’t refer to Biden as “the former guy” and try dwell on him as little as possible. Guess he doesn’t work with the top consultants and advisers in the biz.

submitted 50 days ago • 12 comments

damn. that's a lot of trees.

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

Я українець.

submitted 54 days ago • 389 comments

the study on safety of single stair buildings by pew charitable trusts and the center for building in north america (@stephenjacobsmith.com) is now live www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments

The news is not good, but this deeply affecting message is filled with such personal grace that I find myself inspired, as I have been so often through the years, by the gift of MTT's musical life. Hoping for an extended coda, for his sake and for ours. michaeltilsonthomas.com/a-message-fr...

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Tony Williams made his recording debut on this day in 1963 with Jackie McLean, though the LP wasn't issued until 1980. Tony was barely 17 when this was recorded. One of the greatest prodigies in any idiom. Chemistry with Herbie foreshadows things to come. Jackie, Byrd, Herbie, Butch Warren, Tony.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

One thing that was actually better during the McKinley era? You could get pretty much anywhere by railroad.

submitted 77 days ago • 14 comments