I exaggerate. They were just ok with 200 years of slavery, rape, torture, and in the 1930s especially making damned sure that nobody with a high melanin content ever voted, and they were happy to hang people from trees for looking cross-eyed at people.

I'm'a gonna split the difference a bit.

I don't disagree with you. But honestly, the all caps just made it hard on the eyes (typographically speaking). But I'm just old.

There were a lot of people in the US — including influential people in the Roosevelt State Department — who thought an alliance with Germany to crush the Soviets was the way to go. (Churchill to his credit was at least principled about this). That is, remember that the US invaded the fledgling USSR in 1918, to restore…

The War Memorial venue didn't have those as I remember — but hey, I loved the show anyway. They closed out with some of their older stuff, and I remember everyone went wild for Limelight, which for people on our side of the border is as close to a signature song as Rush gets given the airplay it got through the 80s.

Dude, now I am going to blow the money on Extra Innings just for that. I'm a Sox fan but I dug Rush enough to see the Roll the Bones tour (10/26/91, Rochester NY) and Presto (4/19/90, same city) which was not one of their best. Tho I had really, insanely good seats for the former.

I don't have the Help! soundtrack except for a download of "I've Just
Seen A Face because the Rubber Soul CD had the UK tracks, unlike the
very old vinyl copy my parents had :-) I have With the Beatles, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Abbey Road, Let it Be, Magical Mystery Tour, Sgt Pepper, White Album, Yellow Submarine, and…

Thanks (to @TheNotKnowing:disqus as well) ! I thought I was alone in this. The OOPS effect you speak of, when I think about it, might be the problem — because it seemed to happen when I tried to play the CD from the computer to speakers (for a long time I was just running a wire from the headphone jack, and later via…

I'm gonna bring up somethign weird, but I wonder if anyone else had this experience. It has to do with Rubber Soul and Revolver.

the assumption I am speaking of is on the part of the writers more than anything else. Hence why I say it's kind of sexist at the very least.

That would require the writers having met actual women with relationship problems.

To me the whole problem is that if you have a kid you don't know about and that gets dropped on you, you don't say "why of course I'll keep it a secret" — at least I can't see normal people doing that.

Yeah, the whole thing is also sort'a sexist because the assumption is that Felicity will go postal or whatever and not react like a mature person, "Oh, man, you had a kid you didn't know about? That's rough and weird, let's sit down with a glass of wine and hash out what this means for us. I am glad you told me."

The funny thing is that the difference between 30 and 20 is a LOT bigger than the difference between 40 and 30.

I was unhappy with the long lost kid thing. For a few reasons.

And in other small rants, the fact that the Mattapan line is still a 100-year-old trolley disconnected from the Red Line is a sign of some pretty serious disinvestment. There's no reason you can't extend the Red Line as it would involve building an extra 50 feet of track and connecting it at the bottom of the…

I was just back in Boston, and noticed the Gov't Center shutdown because I was taking my wife to Faneuil Hall and that's where I thought to get off, and I see the whole thing is shut down.

Does anyone have electric trains anymore? I'm really sort of curious, as my Christmas at the age of six was brightened by an O27 scale Lionel.

You're certainly right about picking good targets. One other aspect of that tho is that you have to offer people something. That is, look at the USSR. If you were a peasant in 1905 and a farmer in 1930, your life was actually measurably better. I'm not saying Stalin's collectivization was a good idea (people forget…

Yeah, Stalin could kill people. But he wouldn't do that willy nilly if he had any brains. And he did.