Archive for the 'Life and Life Only' Category


Fighting Back

Democrats are never going to win on the immigration issue. Sure, our nation depends upon undocumented immigrants to pick our fruit, provide our low-paying manual labor, however you’re just not going to convince the vast majority of Americans that people who are here illegally deserve to be so. I am stunned, and happily surprised, that […]

The Titan Documentary

“Titan: The OceanGate Disaster” – Netflix trailer: https://rb.gy/2235z2 This was not the film I expected it to be, not the gory details of the explosion, but the choices and behaviors leading up to it. Sure, they show some of the retrieved detritus, but there are not panicked recordings… But you will be positively unnerved at […]

Brian Wilson

Spotify playlist: https://shorturl.at/neBm0 1 The Beach Boys were selling the California Dream. And I bought it hook, line and sinker. Today California is a pejorative. The whipping boy of the right. And many on the left too. They have contempt for the Golden State, primarily because living here is SO F*CKING GOOD! Sure, real estate […]

Mailbag

RE: The Stax Documentary In your review of the Stax documentary you mentioned Stax being “screwed by Jerry Wexler” such that “Atlantic ends up with all the Masters.” However, technically, the latter statement is incorrect. When Jim Stewart made the deal with Jerry Wexler, Stax (now Concord) actually retained ownership of the Masters. But that was because the deal was […]