The New York Philharmonic Orchestra played a concert last night in Pyongyang, North Korea. I never thought I would ever, ever have the opportunity to write that sentence. Needless to say, Kim Jong-Il was not in attendance. The high note (no pun intended): The piccolo sang a long, plaintive melody, cymbals crashed, harp runs...
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Gershwin and the Gulag
It’s the Nukes, Gene; It’s the Nukes, Bill
Bill says that Gene Healy “delievers a nice kidney punch to anti-gun nice pro-war conservatives” by pointing out that conservatives find it foolish to take draconian measures to prevent gun massacres, but will pay any price and bear any burden to stop terrorism. Healy argues that both phenomena are infrequent “low-risk events” that annually...
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