Purveyor of Iniquities

The other night I was listening to Coast to Coast AM as the local NPR affiliate was off-the-air. George Noory was interviewing a scientist (?) on the topics of ghosts and hauntings. The scientist claimed that it is “unscientific” to reject these phenomena out of hand. Laying in bed, I grumbled to myself that science [...]

Capsule reviews from four years ago, until now unpublished:
OK kids, a lot of music is coming out this summer ñ some of it good, some of it bad, much of it worse. Donít get lost amongst the record bins, though. Hereís your hand guide of what to buy, what to steal, and what [...]

(Stereolab:Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements)
Great song, great album, great album title.
Before they went all stupidly kitchy, too. Then again, some of that’s pretty catchy too.
Also listening to some Juan Calos Calderon. Not too much information available on him in English but for that he wrote for Herb Alpert back in the day.
Fresh Air’s gone mad [...]

Why does everybody want to meet in the morning?
I don’t get it.
Another Katz meeting tomorrow at 10 AM with the elusive Bill Tomaselli. What will come of it? Who knows. Hopefully, we’ll push Sam one step closer to being mayor.
We’ll likely be moving this site (and dartreview.com and dartlog.net) to a much faster server [...]

On the BBC’s Agenda last night was a maddening interview with Dr. Kamal Hossain, the UN’s human rights something-or-other to Afghanistan. The interviewer spent a full fifteen minutes pressuring him to admit that things in the country are worse off since US forces toppled the Taliban last year. Hossain, technocrat that he is, refused to [...]