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, March 3, 2022

Ukraine

Several of the columns in yesterday’s Washington Post had interesting takes on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

 

David Von Drehle: Zelensky and the West have called Putin’s bluff

David Ignatius: Distraught dictator or rational actor?

Sebastian Mallaby: The West deploys a new financial weapon

Molly Roberts: Ukraine is a war of the modern-day Web

 

Monday, February 28, 2022

Biden’s presidential approval rating is at a new low

This is both disappointing and alarming (although not especially surprising).

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/27/biden-post-abc-poll/