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If it's of any interest to the TOP legions I've made a Spotify playlist of these albums http://open.spotify.com/user/gingerburn/playlist/60md2DXmSgR8KL5ukcbKAh
Open Mike: Snarky Puppy!
Michael Wollny and Heinz Sauer. Photo courtesy ACT / Grosse Geldermann Best Jazz Records of 2012 • Not Getting Behind is the New Getting Ahead, Charlie Hunter and Scott Amendola. Charlie Hunter Music. You know you're in for some fun with tracks titled "There Used to Be a Nightclub There" and ...
Alright, dad, but thanks for letting us stay up to watch the show. Our boy done good. Hoorah! (Yes, I am a Brit and I'm tickled pink to see Andy Murray win).
OT: Congratulations, Andy Murray!
I know we have a lot of readers in Great Britain, so let me just say... ...First Fred Perry beats Don Budge, and now this! Heh. But seriously: congratulations. Tremendous. What a fabulous match—easily one of the very best I've seen. I'm exhausted, and all I did was sit on the edge of my chair f...
The Olympics were great fun here, and they really have lifted the national mood, although this is how a friend of mine saw the closing ceremony: http://i.imgur.com/xcp8Z.png
Thank You, United Kingdom!
Four years ago, after the Chinese had done such an overwhelmingly impressive job hosting the world at the Beijing Olympics, Boris Johnson's acceptance of the Olympic flag had a frumpy, deprecatory air about it, as if the English weren't even going to bother to try to top the Chinese. And of cou...
I know this makes me an unbearable pedant, and that flies in the face of all that makes this site such a pleasure to read, but I must offer a correction: the King James Bible is not Elizabethan, but Jacobean. Sorry. I feel both better and ashamed for having typed that.
Open Mike: Why Creationism May Be Ungodly
As an unregenerate, dyed-in-the-wool Doubter I have fairly radical views about religion. Not according to me, of course, but probably the religious would see it that way. But one thing that's always perplexed me is what I understand to be a central tenet of fundamentalism: that everything in the...
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