Rambling Rhoads: 2017-06-04

As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Monday, June 5, 2017

Hillary Clinton, smash your rearview mirror

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/hillary-clinton-smash-your-rearview-mirror/2017/06/02/7d5afe28-47d0-11e7-a196-a1bb629f64cb_story.html?utm_term=.5448c6349e04

Ruth Marcus hits the nail on the head, as usual.

“Hillary Clinton isn’t going gently. … no words minced, no target spared — except, for the most part, herself.”

“It’s essential to understand what went wrong in 2016 and to call out the bad actors. Clinton is just the wrong messenger. … Clinton’s obsessive summoning of 2016 gives Trump an excuse to change the subject from his missteps.”