Sunday, January 11, 2004

Classical Music: Killed by the State. Classical music companies made a pact with the devil: the state. That pact, as always, has now gone sour. This is good. The pact was immoral from day one. It was based on theft. The suppliers -- orchestras -- were on the take politically. Classical music has a future, but only if the present economic arrangement dies. The state has long controlled the production of classical music. The fact that cacophony has reigned almost supreme since 1900 is a testimony to Mises' original observation. Atonal music is to music what socialism is to economics: planned chaos. We could use less of it. [Lewrockwell.com] Another take on the demise of classical recording. 5:00:34 PM    comment () A PROFOUND SENSE OF SADNESS. I'll begin with this story about Syria, which strikes me as important for several reasons: Senior aides to President Bush are vigorously debating what to do about Syria as evidence mounts that the government in Damascus is stepping up support for the terror group Hezbollah and allowing anti-American insurgents to reach Iraq, according to U.S. officials. Civilians in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's office are pushing for military action against Syria short of an invasion and... [The Light of Reason] This isn't the first time the Crusaders have pushed for the conquest of Syria. I expect they'll keep at it until they get their way. 1:49:42 PM    comment () I find it interesting that none of the Presidential candidate blogs are in the Top 100 on the Share Your OPML site. Here's a communication platform, open to the candidates, and none of them have used it well enough to match the individual bloggers. Also a surprise is the relatively poor showing of the big newspaper feeds. I would have guessed the NY Times would be in the Top 10. Not so. It's in my personal Top 10 for sure. I wonder why? I assume it's because people don't know that the feeds are there? [Scripting News] I don't subscribe to the New York Times feed because you have to register to read things on their site, which I'm not interested in doing. I'm not interested in any of the candidate blogs because I'll be hearing enough lies from them over the next year as it is, I don't need to go looking for more. 1:42:33 PM    comment () From smith2004: "I flew with a guy a few months back that had flown in the Air Force for a number of years. He flew one of the older single seat airplanes that carried nuclear weapons. He had to be evaluated often for psychological fitness since he carried nuclear armament single pilot and therefore had the freedom to act with no other person able to interfere. He applied for the armed pilot program and after the psych screening was turned down. Interesting result. I guess a pistol is more dangerous than a 100 kiloton nuclear bomb." -- unattributed [End the War on Freedom] 12:55:16 PM    comment ()

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