Carl Scott

Fluid situation, but this Newsmax account is as good as any for portraying where things stand at the moment. 5 days away from a referendum that may give Egypt an essentially Islamist constitution. . . . . Continue Reading »

Can’t talk about the 60s, especially 60s “Love,” without dealing with the Beatles. Last time we were occupied with one of their so-so late 60s numbers, but here we’ll be giving them their real due, by considering their early style. Let’s begin with this , part of a recent . . . . Continue Reading »

Dave Brubeck is one of those artists that whenever I’ve delved into the recordings just a bit, I’ve thought, “Wow, this is wonderful stuff . . . gotta explore this more,” but for some reason, perhaps pocketbook-related, just never did. Sure I have the greatest hits . . . . Continue Reading »

Musically, not that impressive, an instance of the Beatles’ rock-meets-music-hall mode, but winsome enough if you don’t listen to it often. It’s fun, and it knows it’s sing-song-y. Irony-hounds might even ask whether that hints at some kind of reversal being the true message. But, no, the . . . . Continue Reading »

Back to where our world begins, the 1960s. The English word “love” can refer to a number of different sorts of love that other languages, classical Greek particularly, kept more distinct in their vocabulary. The distinctions between agape, philos, and eros, for example, are fairly . . . . Continue Reading »

Super-busy week for me, can’t possibly keep up with rapidly changing Egypt developments, but signs suggest a civil war in the making: From a Guardian story, we learn that Muslim Brotherhood headquarters in Alexandria and Mansoura were ransacked and in the case of latter, set on fire, prompting . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s depressing but not-to-be-missed editorial from Jonathan Tobin at Commentary . He’s not as open as I think he should be to the possibilities that a) Morsi might really intend to give up his extraordinary powers in three months, and that b) regardless of his intentions, . . . . Continue Reading »

1. Wow. Impressive film-making at every level: casting and script particularly, but obviously on its game in every area. From at least the mid-90s to the present, the Hollywood establishment has been floundering, and partly because it really is guilty of some of the sins conservatives like John . . . . Continue Reading »

One of the privileges of the Internet is that we get to read some truly vicious and idiotic opinions, in certain comments sections especially.  We get to learn how the bottom of the barrel thinks and speaks on political matters, and alas, how well-populated that bottom is.  But we . . . . Continue Reading »

If you want to bark back at the legacy media praise of the cease-fire our president recently had a hand in arranging, then this Powerline piece , emphasizing the assertion of emergency-powers by Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi in the immediate aftermath of his role in that cease-fire, is just . . . . Continue Reading »