COLLECTIVE MADNESS
“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
Wow, that dude's got the chops.
ReplyDeleteHere ya go, Deuce. Let's forget the troubles of the world for a few minutes and go Wheeling with David Greer .
ReplyDeleteI think it's so good that the taliban would hate it...
ReplyDeleteHow about Tony Rice?
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ReplyDeleteEarl Scruggs & The Chieftains - Sally Goodin'
ReplyDeleteAllen, I forgot how good earl scruggs was...
ReplyDeleteDeuce,
ReplyDeleteHow's this for nuts? It's '04 and I'm driving south through the Alps, like a bat out of hell, cranking Bocephus full tilt. Haven't listened since.
Thanks!
makes you wish you were in the mob
ReplyDeleteRufus, one of my uncles who served in the Royal Navy, insisted that recording( on a 78) be played at his funeral. Not a dry eye in the chapel.
ReplyDeleteIt is crazy that you cannot find music like this on a radio anymore. nuts.
ReplyDelete2164th: It is crazy that you cannot find music like this on a radio anymore. nuts.
ReplyDeleteOh, you can find it, but it's on National People's Radio after the Enya piece dedicated to the elimation of the fur trade and just before Madonna's on-air Kabbalah class.
Rodrigo
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ReplyDeleteWillie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson
ReplyDeleteWe need Radio Free Elephant.
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Orchestral Rodrigo #3
Donna
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allen said...
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Orchestral Rodrigo #2
Orchestral Rodrigo #3
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Your killing me! I will never get to sleep.
at your request rufus. it has been demoted.
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Dream Lover
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ReplyDeleterufus,
ReplyDeleteYou're doing pretty good yourself!
bobalharb,
ReplyDeleteThat girl wouldn't have to sing a lick; I'd pay just to watch her walk.
My Girl
ReplyDeleteGet Ready
Baby, I Need Your Lovin
You know, it was this stuff that broke the walls.
I Only Want to Be with You
ReplyDeleterufus,
ReplyDeleteWe are the most fortunate generation in the history of the world. Our prosperity and conspicuous consumption make us roundly hated and envied. As I polish off a bottle of very good French wine, in the air conditioned comfort of what would be in the rest of the world a castle, while enjoying great music, let me say, life is good!
In ’67 while we babysat Con Thien, one of the guys had a battery powered 45 record player. This was one side of the single record he owned.
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Oh, the love of my life wrote me daily. She was a dear girl, deserving much better than the likes of me. Things were what they were. There would be no baby.
After all these years, I have every letter she wrote.
rufus,
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We operated outside the wire. It was Fun, Fun, Fun
rufus,
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Look at those black girls. That’s what we are all about. Hoorah!
Our generation has engineered plant genetics, pharmacology, and IT, among a host of other things that have made life possible for billions of human beings, who otherwise would have perished in their ignorance. For our effort, we are daily accosted and assailed by ingrate savages. Makes you wonder doesn’t it?
ReplyDeleteYes, we have our flaws; but apathy isn’t one of them. Why, we could have stayed
Our room
rufus,
ReplyDeleteMy friend, there is truth in wine. What other sites may do gives them no soul. We have lived, loved, and lost. We have been in the ring.
Don’t Worry, Baby
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