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Throwing it back into the doddering old fool’s face.

From the New York Post. Former President Donald Trump was greeted at a Wisconsin airport Wednesday by a “big, beautiful MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN Garbage Truck. ‘How do you like my garbage truck?’ Trump, who was wearing an orange safety vest, asked reporters while sitting in the passenger seat of the MAGA-adorned garbage truck cruisingContinue reading “Throwing it back into the doddering old fool’s face.”

Probably the best Brahms pianist in this blogger’s lifetime.

With technique and intellect essential to playing the often fiercely difficult works of Brahms, including the two above works, Vogt and Brahms were a perfect match. If some critics complained about his sometimes quick tempos, it behooves us to remember the alleged quip made by the great virtuoso pianist of a century ago, Moritz Rosenthal,Continue reading “Probably the best Brahms pianist in this blogger’s lifetime.”

Worth reading.

Does Kamala Harris Have a Catholic Problem in PA? This is a good piece, but the author may err by restricting Kamala Harris’s difficulties appealing to working-class Catholics in Pennsylvania alone. Other than whacko extremists like Jesuits in the academy, her revulsion to observant Catholics is far broader than those considered “working class;” in Pennsylvania andContinue reading “Worth reading.”

The ups and downs in American history of Christopher Columbus.

When Bickerstaff was in grade school, the received opinion of Christopher Columbus was positive; a man of stupendous courage who discovered, accidentally perhaps, the Americas, one part of them many years later becoming a safe haven for oppressed people everywhere, the United States.  Gradually l, and as left-wing revisionists took over our cultural institutions andContinue reading “The ups and downs in American history of Christopher Columbus.”