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The BBC recently discovered a half-hour BBC Radio 4 interview with Louis Armstrong from 1968 (The story in The Guardian). Armstrong’s desert island records are: Blueberry Hill — Louis Armstrong Mack the Knife — Louis Armstrong People — Barbra Streisand Bye Bye Blues — Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians Bess, You Is My Woman…
This “character” born on this day. Ernie’s official website. Antoinette also led a tongue-in-cheek campaign for K-Doe’s election for mayor of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans in 2006, five years after his death. Ernie K-Doemother-in-lawmother-in-law loungemusicnew orleansrhythm and bluessoul
It’s been 40 years since one of Oakeshott’s masterpieces, On Human Conduct, was published. Despite being an “old man’s” book, dense and highly qualified, it contains some of the most melliflous writing Oakeshott ever did. Religious faith is the evocation of a sentiment (the love, the glory, or the honour of God, for example, or even…
Seems to be a superb idea that should be tried elsewhere especially in the US. The brainchild of The Clink Charity, set up to reduce reoffending rates of ex-offenders by training and placing graduates into employment upon their release, three prison restaurants now operate in the UK. clink charitydiningfoodprison
This in The Washington Post. Alan TuringArtificial intelligenceconsciousnessFreeman Dysonphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindTuring machineTuring test
After about two years this marks the end of the weekly CoD cycle and with no more text forthcoming here are the left over Ignatius graphics I’ve found. a confederacy of duncesJohn Kennedy Toolenew orleansphilosophical literature
The intro to Jack Weinstein’s chapter. In the midst of one of the most famous passages in The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith writes “nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog” (WN I.ii.2). In and of itself, this is probably not a noteworthy…
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Essential for Gatemouth fans and others. Succinctly and very well put by Steve Leggett. big bandbluesClarence “Gatemouth” Browncountry and westernfiddleguitarLouisianamusicSteve Leggetttexas
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