I didn't know so many Carole King demos were available online.
Life in this modern world isn't so horrible sometimes.
• I haven't heard what he has to say yet, but I can understand why John Boehner wants to GTFO. Who needs it? I'm more interested to see whether this actually dampens rather than exacerbates the crazy among the House Republican fringe. I mean, they won't have Boehner as the Establishment Daddy to blame for the eventual collapse of their zany maneuvers, and that may spook them; also, Kevin McCarthy doesn't seem like a Cromwell. What do you guys think?
• I listened to the Hamilton musical score on NPR (there's now a crowdsourced lyric sheet, too!) and like it a lot. I am as regular readers know a sucker for this kind of musical pastiche. (Hamilton is mostly well-padded crossover rap, crossing further at times into pretty pop.) It's like the best Schoolhouse Rock ever, but with a genuinely interesting POV: that while the top-tier American Revolutionaries certainly had commendable ideas, they were also about getting over -- and in fact the getting-over was mainly where they lived, because there was just too much competition and urgency to play the philosophe much. It's kind of a nice joke, and also a relief, to see Thomas Jefferson portrayed as a cut-throat snob rather than the Sage of Monticello, and to see Washington's cabinet meetings played as rap battles. I can see why this excites people, and I agree with Frannie Kelly's conclusion on NPR about the coming high-school productions.
• Need a laugh? Rod Dreher's always good for one. Today he's read something about a forthcoming authorized biography of Cardinal Godfried Danneels, in which the Eminence allegedly claims he was "part of a secret club of cardinals opposed to Pope Benedict XVI." You may recall Benedict resigned the papacy, so either Danneels is taking the piss a la Bill Ayers or this anti-Benedictine movement forced him out with footage of Ratzinger fucking a horse or something. But of course that's what I'd think -- here's Dreher's take:
• I listened to the Hamilton musical score on NPR (there's now a crowdsourced lyric sheet, too!) and like it a lot. I am as regular readers know a sucker for this kind of musical pastiche. (Hamilton is mostly well-padded crossover rap, crossing further at times into pretty pop.) It's like the best Schoolhouse Rock ever, but with a genuinely interesting POV: that while the top-tier American Revolutionaries certainly had commendable ideas, they were also about getting over -- and in fact the getting-over was mainly where they lived, because there was just too much competition and urgency to play the philosophe much. It's kind of a nice joke, and also a relief, to see Thomas Jefferson portrayed as a cut-throat snob rather than the Sage of Monticello, and to see Washington's cabinet meetings played as rap battles. I can see why this excites people, and I agree with Frannie Kelly's conclusion on NPR about the coming high-school productions.
• Need a laugh? Rod Dreher's always good for one. Today he's read something about a forthcoming authorized biography of Cardinal Godfried Danneels, in which the Eminence allegedly claims he was "part of a secret club of cardinals opposed to Pope Benedict XVI." You may recall Benedict resigned the papacy, so either Danneels is taking the piss a la Bill Ayers or this anti-Benedictine movement forced him out with footage of Ratzinger fucking a horse or something. But of course that's what I'd think -- here's Dreher's take:
This is the first confirmation of rumors that had been going around for years about Benedict being thwarted by a liberal conspiracy, one that eventually forced him out. These men — Danneels, Van Luyn, Kasper, Lehman, and Hume, at least — all preside over dying churches. And they killed the Benedict papacy. Danneels, you will note, was given by Francis a prominent place at next month’s Synod on the Family.
I am glad this came out now. The orthodox bishops and others going to the Synod now know what a nest of snakes they are working with, and how high up the corruption goes. Poor Pope Benedict. My heart breaks for that good man.Poor Pope Benedict! I wish I could be there when Holiness Emeritus Benedict steps his Prada shoes out of Castel Gandolfo and finds Dreher and his fellow nuts kneeling there, bewailing his martyrdom.
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