William Heise | March 26, 2010
Apparently Christopher Hitchens wants someone to arrest the Pope. Fair enough, but the Washington Post found someone to confound the question: “A pope can voluntarily resign, but it’s interesting… Who would take his resignation?” They may be right, but a determined party can make it difficult for him. My church history says that if a [...]
William Heise | March 25, 2010
Another one of my favorite bits of comedy. This one is from Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances. After this, it’s all downhill.
William Heise | March 23, 2010
A recent publicity tour for a film about the Runaways, the 1970s all-girl rock band, featured this quote from starlet Dakota Fanning: “A lot of girls in my generation don’t realize there was a time when you couldn’t actually do something. And what the Runaways did at the time was actually not OK, not acceptable, [...]
William Heise | March 23, 2010
I could have been happy being an academic, but it was not to be. Initially my academic aspirations were stymied by my feeling that I had bitten off more than I could chew in my dissertation. (I have a scanned copy of my dissertation, which I will eventually put on the Internet so that everyone [...]
William Heise | March 20, 2010
So what will the Republicans do after they lose the health care vote this weekend, as it now seems inevitable they will? It seems one option is to vent their anger by going after whoever offered a job to Joe Sestak in order to get him to drop his challenge to Arlen Specter. The American [...]
William Heise | March 19, 2010
I suppose I ought to be more careful when I write, because, although I started writing this blog for the purpose of rehabilitating my stroke-ridden mind (and for no other purpose, really), people actually read things on the web. Yesterday, I posted an article on Alan Reynolds‘s column in IBD, and (to my great surprise) [...]
William Heise | March 18, 2010
As I said in my previous post, I’m planning on venturing out my safe and secure space of talking about music, which, it is held, is a matter of individual taste and conscience. As I also said in my previous post the world of books is generally held to express a greater purpose. They connect [...]
William Heise | March 18, 2010
I’ve decided that I’m going to try to write a series of book reviews on my blog, just as I have been posting “What I Am Listening to This Week” for over a year. My plan is to write a book review week for a hundred weeks. This is probably too ambitious, but we’ll see. [...]
William Heise | March 18, 2010
I read Investors Business Daily (IBD) daily because it satisfies me that their system works more perfectly than any I have ever found for the single purpose of picking stocks. That’s not to say that it works perfectly 100% of the time. Nor is it to say that other people’s systems are not equally, and [...]
William Heise | March 15, 2010
Cui Jian is a rock star in China, where just to be a rock star is in and of itself an act of subversion. Here’s a documentary footage of the Tienanmen Square riots and Cui Jian’s participation in them: The documentary starts out with the song that made him famous (Nothing to My Name). The [...]
