When Music Spits In Your Face

I dearly love the Blues and Buddy Guy is a Blues legend.  So, the release of a new Buddy Guy album last month was an occasion for much anticipation.  That is until I heard the single from the album called “Gunsmoke Blues.”  The song is about gun violence and ends with the line “a million thoughts and prayers won’t bring anyone back,” and I’m not much of a Buddy Guy fan anymore.

The dismissal of “thoughts and prayers” offered in the wake of “gun” violence is now almost cliché.  The dismissiveness is rooted in a desire for action on guns, the idea is to counterpose action and inaction.  I understand that...

GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel On Election 2022

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel joined me this morning to review the electoral battlegrounds as the earliest voting begins tomorrow in Minnesota:

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Thinking Ourselves Stupid

As our academic institutions have offered more and more fields of study, it has become difficult to distinguish between what is a legitimate intellectual pursuit and what is simply placing an academic patina on some overwhelming obsession.  There is also a difference between studying something and truly coming to understand it.

The best way I can illustrate this would be to look at my area of specialty – science.  Physics is the most mature field of science.  We understand Newtonian motion extremely well, we use it to do everything from build buildings to send rockets to the moon.  We have equations that describe in minute detail how a physical system operates.

Zoology, while a legitimate field of scientific inquiry is far less mature than physics.  In an effort...

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