The Truth (Don't Tell Them I've Gone Crazy)

Living in an Islamic Country

Seen at the Corner:

If you cannot say that Islam is a backward religion and that Mohammed is a criminal, then you are living in an Islamic country, my friend, because there also you cannot say such things.

There's more.

Sometime Around Midnight (Acoustic)

Something this good bears repeating: "Sometime Around Midnight" by Airborne Toxic Event.

An Ordinary Housewife With Extraordinary Courage

From Jay Nordlinger, in National Review:

This is an interesting article, too: It gives the obituary of Miep Gies, who died at 100. She was one of the helpers of Anne Frank and her family — one of the helper-hiders. She was the last living. It was she who saved Anne’s diary, unread, to be presented to Anne’s father later. She explained that she would never read someone else’s diary.

And she “despised praise,” to use old language. She said that others had done the same kind of thing she had, and far more dangerous things. Once, someone, or some group, wanted to make a character study out of her, to teach heroism to the young. She recoiled at this: Young people should not “grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.”

I don’t know about that.

He Would Have Been 75 Today.

Steppin' Into The Twilight Zone...

Twilight Zone by Golden Earring

McClintock!

Featuring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.

New Year's Day

U2 - New Year's Day