Rambling Rhoads: 2022-01-23

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.)

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Glenn Youngkin

“He’s Trump in a red vest.”

That’s how radio host John Fredericks summarized the new Virginia governor a few days ago, after conducting a radio interview with him.

Just to be clear, Fredericks (who was Donald Trump’s Virginia presidential campaign chairman in both 2016 and 2020) meant this as a compliment. He went on to say the following:

“He [earlier] got blasted by the whole Trump-ecosystem base [for being too moderate]. If he wants to run for something else or keep his coalition together, you simply can’t alienate us.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md- va/2022/01/24/youngkin-virginia-mask-mandates-ban/

Monday, January 24, 2022

NFL playoffs

“Yesterday’s pair of contests featured one game that neither team deserved to lose, following a game that neither team deserved to win.” – Rambling Rhoads, 1/24/2021

Also, from Jayson Stark:

The winning teams in the NFL this weekend:

* team that got sacked 9 times (Bengals)

* team that scored no offensive TDs (49ers)

* team that blew a 27-3 second-half lead (Rams)

* team that gave up 2 go-ahead TDs in the last 2 minutes (Chiefs)