From: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth Time to shed the right -vs- left, socialism -vs- capitalism hyperbole and purchase Thomas Piketty's new book " Capital in the Twenty-First Century. " PARIS — Thomas Piketty turned 18 in 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, so he was spared the tortured, decades-long French intellectual debate about the virtues and vices of communism. Even more telling, he remembers, was a trip he took with a close friend to Romania in early 1990, after the collapse of the Soviet empire. “This sort of vaccinated me for life against lazy, anticapitalist rhetoric, because when you see these empty shops, you see these people queuing for nothing in the street,” he said, “it became clear to me that we need private property and market institutions, not just for economic efficiency but for personal freedom.” (emphasis mine) But his disenchantment with communism doesn’t mean that Mr. Piketty has turned his back on the intellectual ...
I'm with you in regards to the Moody Blues, RN. No so much with you when it comes to Jethro Tull or Led Zeppelin... but the Moody Blues? Hell, yes. "Tuesday Afternoon" is one of my favorite songs.
ReplyDeleteThere are few that aren't very worthy by the MB.
DeleteRN: The associated poem is great too. That album is one of the best of all time.
ReplyDeleteThis includes "Tuesday Afternoon"... Check out this video
One of my favorites as well.
DeleteTull and the Moody Blues both deserve to be in the Hall of Fame and certainly way ahead of such miserable acts as Madonna, ABBA, the Bee Gees, Kiss, etc..............My favorite Moody Blues song? I'm going to have to go with "The Story in Your Eyes".
ReplyDeleteYes they do. I was a Jethro Tull fan the first time I heard them. Every so often I take that stroll down memory lane and listen to them for an hour or so. Ian Anderson rocks.
DeleteI have so many favorites by them. All pretty much pre-"Octave". Everything after seems just an imitation or tribute band.
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