Sunday, October 25, 2015

Monday, October 19, 2015

Liked on YouTube: The Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (Best Live Performance) subtitulada en español

The Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (Best Live Performance) subtitulada en español
dedicada exclusivamente a MGCB. © 2005 WMG Iris (Live Video) Live in Buffalo: July 4, 2004 Artist & Copyright: The Goo Goo Dolls
via YouTube http://youtu.be/mG1TTpd5qTE

Liked on YouTube: Live From Daryl's House - Iris

Live From Daryl's House - Iris
Featuring John Rzeznik from Goo Goo Dolls
via YouTube http://youtu.be/1LFe7ZfEaV8

Thursday, October 8, 2015

Liked on YouTube: Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Bruce Cockburn

Acoustic Guitar Sessions Presents Bruce Cockburn
The March 2015 issue of Acoustic Guitar will feature an excerpt from Bruce Cockburn’s new memoir, Rumours of Glory, in which the Canadian singer, songwriter, and guitarist talks about why, at 23, he left ’60s-era folk-rock to focus on solo acoustic music. He’d met fingerstyle guitarist Fox Watson, who taught Cockburn how to play in alternate tunings. “I was sort of disdainful of open tunings back then because I didn’t like most of what people did with them—playing the same four chord formations in different tunings, trying for a specious variety in their sound without going to the trouble of actually learning their instrument,” Cockburn writes. “But when Fox played in any of several tunings he used, what came out was fluid as a mountain creek and agile as a gull.” That was more than four decades ago. Since then, Cockburn has returned to playing electric guitar in rock bands, but he never left an acoustic guitar far behind, and he’s developed a style that is unmistakably his. In this special half-hour edition of Acoustic Guitar Sessions, senior editor Marc Greilsamer talks at length with Cockburn about his love of acoustic guitars and the singer-songwriter performs three tunes: the instrumental “Bohemian 3-Step,” “Waiting for a Miracle” and his most famous song, the politically fierce “If I Had a Rocket Launcher.” - See more at: http://ift.tt/1Qk6C5k
via YouTube http://youtu.be/W8sYV_eo7_Y

Spare us the smug conviction of your perceived superiority please.

A lot of people seem to think that the purpose of argument is to berate, belittle and embarrass people who disagree with you rather than to convince them of your position. Unfortunately, if I stopped interacting with everyone who does this, I would lose most of my conservative acquaintances. 

And most of my progressive ones. 

Friday, October 2, 2015

We must do something

If you're encouraged by the president's comments on the Oregon shooting, remember this: he thought we should do something about Syria too. The result is that we spent millions to train exactly 5 guys, and then a year later the Russians bombed them. 

Things I Wish I Could Tweet #1

The fact that some fetuses don't become babies justifies abortion in the same way that the fact that some salmon don't make it upstream to spawn justifies poisoning rivers.