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Noteworthy thoughts on how our language gets butchered by the thoughtless...

Who doesn't like cover tunes? In this episode I depart from serious and important topics to discuss merely the important: several good, interesting cover tunes. Tainted Love - Gloria Jones Tainted Love - Soft Cell Easy - The Commodores Easy - Faith No More Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash RoF - Social D You Really Got Me - The Kinks YRGM - Van Halen Cum on Feel the Noize - Slide Cum on Feel the Noize - QR A Rainbow's Gold - Beckett ARG - Iron Maiden The Green Manalishi - Fleetwood Mac The Green Manalishi - Judas Priest Breadfan - Budgie Breadfan - Metallica Summer Breeze - Seals & Croft SB - Type O Negative

I think the title says it - here's a summary of the world's fascination with airships in the early 20th century.

I think the title sums it up.

Most people have no idea that there was a first draft of the DI, submitted to the Continental Congress and amended by them after some debate. Some of the changes were stylistic, some were not. In this episode I examine the circumstances around the DI and what those changes meant then, and mean now.

Was it states' rights, slavery, or something else? I hear this argument often among fans of history and buffs, and frankly it's gotten old. There is a reason, and the leaders of the Southern states were crystal clear about it when they rebelled against the general government. Listen to this episode and get a sense of the mountain of evidence.

Winston Churchill said that the truth is so important that it must be accompanied by a bodyguard of lies. The truth of Operation OVERLORD - the Normandy Invasion of 1944 - was a truth of such magnitude that it was accompanied by the most extensive and complicated deception operations ever attempted in warfare. These efforts were so secret that many of them were only declassified in the late 1980s, meaning that our understanding of what happened, why, and how on that "Longest Day" was incomplete before them, at best.

A much-overlooked subgenre of Metal music...tune in and turn up.

Poetic language, biblical allusion, and Abraham Lincoln commenting on what's at the core of the American Idea.

The Senate, as of January 2021, is split 50/50 between the two parties, meaning VP Harris could be busy breaking ties...but that only happens IF there is a tie, which means every Senator votes in accordance with his/her party. In the case of Joe Manchin (D) of WV, this was not looking to be the case when the year began, and is even more clear now (SEP '21). He's one of the Senators to watch.

In our system of government, free flow of truthful information is essential. In this episode I discuss this thorny issue and give some perspective on the history of the press in America, and the implications of the biased, low-quality mainstream media of today.

First pushed by FDR during his 2nd term as president, this idea has reared its head again, in the final months of the Trump administration and first year of Biden's time as president. In this episode I discuss both, as well as the political implications and likely scenarios related to this.