David Crosby

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

Gina Lollobrigida, 95

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

“In 2022, the IRS Went After the Very Poorest Taxpayers”

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

Wall Street Journal on Pope Benedict: “A papacy dedicated to the interplay between reason and faith.”

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