Matt -- Gaylord Perry has died. As much as I know you love baseball, his mid-career 1974 autobiography Me and the Spitter is totally worth the read. It's hilarious.
Thought the entire panel discussion on the Glenn Show covered some interesting topics, some of which I think apply not only to black Americans, but are perhaps elements of the human condition that we're all working our way through.
I also caught Kmele's debate about the relevance of public radio and thought it was really good. I recently read Neil deGrasse Tyson's new book, Starry Messenger, and he makes the point that technological advances happen exponentially rather than linearly and I think we experience this in life and aren't always sure when something has become obsolete because our emotional attachments make us suckers for a sunken-cost-fallacy valuation, rather than a cold and emotionless assessment of whether something provides us a sufficient first step forward into the future. Kmele did a great job discussing the relevant particulars and I like that his arguments presented a reasonable case without even really having to take any shots at the other guy's position. I think that seems like the least assailible way to debate something.
Matt -- Gaylord Perry has died. As much as I know you love baseball, his mid-career 1974 autobiography Me and the Spitter is totally worth the read. It's hilarious.
Thought the entire panel discussion on the Glenn Show covered some interesting topics, some of which I think apply not only to black Americans, but are perhaps elements of the human condition that we're all working our way through.
I also caught Kmele's debate about the relevance of public radio and thought it was really good. I recently read Neil deGrasse Tyson's new book, Starry Messenger, and he makes the point that technological advances happen exponentially rather than linearly and I think we experience this in life and aren't always sure when something has become obsolete because our emotional attachments make us suckers for a sunken-cost-fallacy valuation, rather than a cold and emotionless assessment of whether something provides us a sufficient first step forward into the future. Kmele did a great job discussing the relevant particulars and I like that his arguments presented a reasonable case without even really having to take any shots at the other guy's position. I think that seems like the least assailible way to debate something.
I'm disappointed that Dylan did a cover of Brave Combo's polka arrangement of Must Be Santa without giving attribution to the original.
Here's the original with a couple live versions:
https://youtu.be/t87eJXofT6M
https://youtu.be/YklHIk3tyZM
And back when Joe Cripps (with the jingling johnny in the back) was still around:
https://youtu.be/fnc076s4jt4
Great band, worth exploring further. Lots of fun live.