🇺🇸 One of my favorite pieces of American trivia is that Richard Nixon is the only U.S. president to perform at the Grand Ole Opry.
Come for Nixon playing “God Bless America.” Stay for his surprisingly erudite reflections on country music at 1:30
@john_mcguirk has taken a lot of proverbial bullets to publicly say what many Irish people believe and against the transparently deceitful agenda of most of the political & media clique in Ireland.
@LarryPDonnelly@paul_gavan So we redress "income inequality" by forcibly scalping a working person's income and giving it to the person who shouts the loudest, or whoever has the favour of those in power
That's mob rule and cronyism, not "justice".
In the Abolition of Man, CS Lewis wrote about the “irredeemable urban blockhead.”
“He is usually spiritually impoverished, often stunted in imagination. He is one who has been taught to mindlessly debunk anything that smacks of sentiment or philosophy or moral reasoning. In short, he has learned to be rationalistic without being truly rational.”
He was describing Louis CK.
@KeithMillsD7@MichealMartinTD Martin is far and away their best communicator and strongest leader, for good or ill.
You will need to be a cunning, brave, and *decisive* leader to dig FF out, especially with Martin skulking around behind you.
Calleary et al have blown multiple chances to demonstrate that.
The play "Hiroshima", a tribute to the victims of the first atomic bomb, with music and singing by Yoko Ono, opened in New York City this week.
One tearful Japanese survivor of the attack, who attended the premiere, called the play, quote, "the most horrifying experience of my life."
@JoshDaws I have a theory that when entertainment companies are sitting on IP *that* valuable, a refusal to capitalise on it might be legally actionable by shareholders.
It’s a dumb theory, but it’s mine. I thought of it in the shower.