Of Crosby, Still, Nash and Young. David Crosby, Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash Co-Founder, Dies at 81 Singer-songwriter-guitarist David Crosby, a founding member of two popular and enormously influential ’60s rock units, the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash (later Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), has died, his representative says. He was 81 years old. … Read more
Good article from Sky News (UK) making the case that as globalization fades or slows, so does the World Economic Forum. Worth a full read. Before we go any further it's worth pointing out that pinning down what Davos "is" is surprisingly tricky. At its core, it is a four-day-long meeting of businesspeople, politicians, academics, … Read more
Haha, he's right! "Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares a clip of Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum explaining why the most powerful global elites meeting in Davos is a great way "to build trust in these divisive times." The annual Davos Meeting is on now.
I remember her. Dating myself… Gina Lollobrigida, the Italian actor once called “the most beautiful woman in the world”, has died at the age of 95. Corriere della Sera reported the news, saying she had been “hospitalised for some time”. After a series of roles in European films, including a Bafta-winning turn in Bread, Love … Read more
This is off Reason.com, a fairly influential libertarian website. Despite $80 billion in new funding, the agency is living up to its reputation of hassling low-income taxpayers over rich people. On Wednesday, Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) released data provided to it by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on audits performed by the … Read more
The Journal got it right. They agree with me! Pope Benedict – Great man, great mind Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died Saturday at age 95 at the monastery inside the Vatican where he’d been living since he resigned in 2013—the first pope to resign in nearly 600 years. His reason for stepping down was straightforward: … Read more
As the Bishop says, "He was no lightweight". And here's a post I put up yesterday. Pope Benedict – Great man, great mind
Remarkable. An academic, a theologian participant at Vatican II, a Cardinal, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (responsible for explaining and upholding Catholic teaching) from 1981 – 2005. Of course a chief collaborator with Pope Saint John Paul II. And then Pope himself from 2005 until his resignation for health … Read more
Going back to 2019. In response to the Christianity Today editorial calling for his removal, Trump called the magazine a "left-wing rag" and said, "I have done more for Christianity than Jesus." "I mean, the name of the magazine is Christianity Today, and who is doing more for Christians today? Not Jesus. He disappeared; no … Read more
No purgatory, straight to heaven! We should get a t shirt commemorating … wait here is one! And Brigid’s comment “Tom how did you manage to squeeze yourself in the middle there?”