The mid-1970s were a wonderful time for music lovers. For starters, exciting and innovative new music was popping up all over the place. And when it did, it actually got played on […]
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Saturday Video Roundup: three videos in search of a theme
Welcome to the Saturday video roundup. We kick things off today with a totally gratuitous bit of … ummm … historical revisionism? … from Electric Six.
VerseDay: The futility of unconventional poetry
I’m a poet. Whether I’m a good one or a bad one is, I suppose, open to debate. But the fundamental fact of my life and career is that the business activities […]
Looting, pillaging, fundraising: Romney fundraiser busted
Say you’re running for President. And say that it’s a couple days before before a major primary season straw poll. In someplace semi-important, like, say, Iowa. Ask yourself, what kinds of headlines […]
Great week in baseball history
We’ve seen some major historical moments in baseball in the last few days. First, Alex Rodriguez became the youngest man to hit the 500-homerun mark, doing so at 32 years and eight […]
Is the perfect real estate storm about to pop the housing bubble?
I’ve been waiting for the housing crash for awhile. I’m not an expert, but it has seemed to me that we have: a lot of empty existing units; a ridiculous excess of […]
Saturday Video Roundup: someone’s in the kitchen with Murdoc
Welcome back to another edition of Scholars & Rogues’ Saturday Video Roundup. Today we begin with television cooking shows, which are getting weirder with each passing day. (Thx to Wendie the C […]
Satan’s pajama party: Ken Starr in bed with Hillary Clinton, Dubya slays the GOP
They say that politics makes for strange bedfellows. But this is ridiculous. Kenneth Starr’s Law Firm Gives More Money to Clinton By Lindsay Fortado July 31 (Bloomberg) — Lawyers at Kirkland & […]
The UNFATHOMABLE cost of fixing ALL THOSE BRIDGES: a moment of perspective…
According to an article in today’s Washington Post: WASHINGTON — More than 70,000 bridges across the country are rated structurally deficient like the span that collapsed in Minneapolis, and engineers estimate repairing […]
Blogger’s Choice – thanks for your support
At the top of the column to the right you’ll see that S&R has been nominated for a Blogger’s Choice award in the Political Blog category. We’re obviously proud of that, and […]
