Monday, December 27, 2010

We remember Scotty Moore (1931-2009)

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In 1954, fate put Elvis and Scotty Moore in the same studio.    And the rest is musical history and some of rock's most famous recordi...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

We remember Fred Foy (1921-2010) the man who used to say "a fiery horse with the speed of light"...

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Back in 2010, our friend Bill Katz , of Urgent Agenda, wrote a wonderful post about the passing of a radio legend: "Fred Foy ann...
Friday, December 24, 2010

Happy # 71 to AG Jeff Sessions

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We say happy birthday to Attorney General Jeff Sessions who was born on this in Selma, Alabama.    
Thursday, December 23, 2010

No ‘Feliz Navidad’ for Jorge Ramos, or so we hear

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Our friend Jorge Ramos just made an incredible statement,  as I saw in this report :   Nearly a year into the Trump presidency, Univi...

1975: A big Christmas for major league baseball players

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It was Christmas 1975, and Santa Claus dressed up as Peter Seitz, an arbitrator called into action to settle an argument between the p...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

We remember Ellie Hendricks (1940-2005)

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The wonderful Elrod Hendricks  did not put up big numbers but was the kind of player that everyone wanted on his team.    We rememb...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

A word about the death of Vaclav Havel

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We learned in 2011 that Vaclav Havel died in the Czech Republic.  He was one of my Eastern European heroes because he stood up to commun...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Did you know that the Brothers Gibb wrote these tunes?

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Over the years, we've followed the amazing career of The Bee Gees.  The brothers started performing at a very young age and eventua...
Saturday, December 11, 2010

December 2010: What will we talk about in 2011?

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A post from December 2010: It's always tough to predict in politics.  Nevertheless, I think that 2011 will be a very dangerous ...
Friday, December 03, 2010

1839: Young Abraham Lincoln became a lawyer

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We know him as The Great Emancipator, perhaps the greatest president and the man who delivered The Gettysburg Address in the middle of ...