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"There's never been a better time in history to be an intermediary, a middleman, a hanger-on, an aggregator, a shyster [in the music business]. Via @tedgioia.bsky.social

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"Remember Aquinas’s principle—our obligation to love is proportionate to the sin committed in acting against that love."

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Somebody took my fave watch model 5000m under the sea

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@nikkimcr.bsky.social Heads up; Calvin Robinson was not defrocked. His license to minister was revoked. These are not the same things procedurally. Defrocking is a much more serious action. I know this might be inside baseball, but I'd be happy to explain it to you if you'd like.

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"Conservatives must welcome dynamic innovation, but they should oppose the deployment of technologies that undermine human goods."

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A couple of spins in the queue to celebrate their 50th birthdays: #music

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"The version of Dylan in A Complete Unknown emerges as a man held in tension between two icons of the Western literary tradition: Odysseus and Huckleberry Finn."

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"...though a good person has an absolute right to a good reputation, there is no absolute right to such a reputation among those who do not deserve it." edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

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Remembering Blind Willie Johnson, born 128 years ago this week in Pendleton, Texas. Here he is performing "John the Revelator" with Willie B. Richardson on accompanying vocal in 1930.

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If you're even slightly interested in David Lynch's work but have not seen "On the Air", his TV sitcom from 1992, drop what you're doing and go watch that.

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Gonna spin these tonight for Garth Hudson (1937-2025) #music

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"The initial investment is expected to be $100 billion and could reach five times that sum."

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Vanhoozer on JBP: "We are accountable for corresponding to God’s account of us."

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I would suggest that the prosecution of free speech in the UK is more than just a "habit"; it's already a tradition with wheels of its own. There's no opposing force with the will to apply the brakes.

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"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of zoomers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

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Still cookin'

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"There will be no start-ups. This whole thing where you guys think you can just start companies and write code and release code on the internet — those days are over. That's not happening."

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"In his work, the sunny American Dream and its nightmare subconscious were conjoined and inseparable, each unimaginable without the other."

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I'm ready for a Twin Peaks watch-a-thon.

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"Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger. In every victory, besides being the general who triumphs, he is also the prisoner who follows the triumphal car." ~ C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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David Lynch (1946-2025). I'd never seen a film as viscerally divisive as 'Blue Velvet.' I remember that it seemed as if half the audience walked out of the theatre in the middle of the movie while the other half was captured by its surreality.

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The Guitar That Killed Folk is for sale! Previously owned and played by Mike Bloomfield at the Newport Folk Festival on July 25, 1965 in support of Bob Dylan. It can be yours for a cool $275,000.00 + shipping.

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Between 18% and 22% of jobs advertised are either fake or never filled. The "ghost job" phenomenon is growing, and it's incredibly frustrating for job seekers.

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"...while the criticism of high fructose corn syrup is mainly about nutrition, its emergence and staying power have hinged on government subsidies, tariffs, and political favors connected to corporate largesse."

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