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A Man Who Has Nothing In Particular To Recommend Him Discusses All Sorts of Subjects at Random as Though He Knew Everything
I’m so old I remember when people looked things up on the internet like a leap of faith. Ancient history now. Maybe five years ago. You’d type a question into the little box, hit enter, and hope that somewhere out there, a stranger would be kind to you.
That’s Mansour Bahrami. THE Iranian tennis player. That’s not much of an exaggeration. When the mullahs took over, they banned tennis outright. Said it was too capitalistic. Too western. Too rich folks-y. After a while, they relented and looked the other way. If I were a betting man,
Well, if you watch the artificial news, Artificial Intelligence is going to take your job and your girlfriend, at least when it’s not too busy taking over some bunker in North Dakota and launching nukes willy nilly. You could form the opinion that AI already has taken over
I’ve done as you instructed. I’ve kept this coupon. For thirty years or so, I think. It was in that metal tin I keep pennies in. If you’re young, ask your parents what pennies are. Unlike this coupon, they’re not valuable, though. It’s valuable. I’m not sure if
That’s Eddie Harris and Les McCann performing “Compared To What” at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in June of 1969. People who don’t know who’s who often assume that Eddie Harris is the piano player, because he’s the star of the show in this video. But Eddie
Let’s talk about Rufus. No, not that Rufus. I hesitate to cast aspersions on the obvious metaphysical endowments of Chaka Khan and her band of Rufusians (Rufusniks? Rufusticans? Ruffians?), but I’m talking about Musonius Rufus. Dude was a Roman philosopher in the first century AD. He’s like the
That’s a bit of a rhetorical question, but it’s not an exaggeration. Hollywood obviously doesn’t like the American Revolution, and has signaled its disdain for
Look, I’m warning you now: Don’t have anything in your mouth that you can’t afford to lose when you watch this. Ladies and Germs, I
When I was little, I went to parochial school. I don’t think they call them that any more. The nuns were very kind — still
