How ’bout some happy music for the end of the week?
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Music Monday: So What from Miles Davis, John Coltrane
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Music Monday: Elvis Presley, Jailhouse Rock
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Monday Music: Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 – Mas Que Nada
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Music Monday: Booker T & the MG’s – Green Onions
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Singin’ in the Rain
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Liberty, Music
Monday Music
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Music Monday: Miles Davis, Summertime, from Porgy and Bess
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Midweek Music: Miles Davis, Concierto de Aranjuez from Sketches of Spain
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Kenosha Police Department’s Twelve Days of Christmas
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In Kenosha, Wisconsin, the police department has recorded and uploaded to YouTube their rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas. I think is very funny and clever, light-hearted and creative. I have been a critic of police leadership in Whitewater, Wisconsin, but I have never doubted the necessary and demanding role that officers play in…
Libertarians, Music
Who Killed Bambi?
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Music Monday: She Blinded Me with Science
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Music Monday: Norman Borlaug Rap
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Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and Nobel Laureate, passed away last week, aged ninety-five. Borlaug’s contributions to agriculture led to a Green Revolution, enabling countless millions to be fed, who otherwise would have starved. These efforts also refuted doomsday contentions that humanity could not feed itself; Borlaug’s dedication and genius trumped pessimism and anti-growth pronouncements. For…
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Music Monday: The Kinks — Twentieth Century Man
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The video has lyrics as captions, but I will add them as text, too. Quick note — I disagree with the Kinks about the police: Very few people in America are actually trigger happy. Far, far more common is the conformity that middling bureaucrats and meddlesome politicians expect. This is the age of machinery, A…