I shall try from now on to get back to posting a gem a week, even though I know the music gems are SOLO's least popular feature. I shall do this because it is in significant measure what SOLO is about, however quixotic my mission may be given the overwhelming preponderance of airheads, headbangers, Faecesbook flibbertigibbets and bestial brutes in the contemporary culture. Time was when I was posting one of these a day—that truly was sacrificial on my part. Once a week will give time for these gems to percolate among those prepared to make the effort. The fact is, in a world dominated by sub-humans unable to appreciate these masterpieces, freedom—much less reason—doesn't stand a chance.

Something to cheer myself up with after all the Obamapologetics and Goblianity—two contemporary opera stars make love, to Verdi:

President Ronald Reagan, 25 years ago today. A timely occasion to remind ourselves there were weasel-worders who wanted him to take that line out. Notwithstanding the historic import of Reagan's insistence on delivering it, their ilk have been rampant ever since. In New Zealand, the weasel-worders have been especially conspicuous in the National and ACT Parties:

Lindsay Perigo Op-Ed: Of Bossyboots, Busybodies and Bloombergs

Lindsay Perigo
June 3, 2012

In the Declaration of Independence, ratified in 1776, America's Founding Fathers affirmed that the role of government was to secure the inalienable rights of all citizens to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Undeterred by the traumatic experience of delinquent SOLOist Sam Pierson trying to pimp his sister, the infamous delinquent SOLOist Olivia Lady Slapper, to him ...

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, widely regarded as the greatest-ever exponent of German lieder has died at the age of 87. His voice and longevity were both enhanced by copious cigarette-smoking. Here he is with the great Alfred Brendel:

Strictly for singing aficionados. Of course, Martinelli didn't sing "M'Appari" this way, but wicked Mario has most mischievously captured the way Giovanni (whom he much admired) often did sing in this spoof:

Mitt Romney's disavowal today of a proposed "attack ad" against President Obama based on the latest revelations about Obamarx's relationship with Rev Jeremiah Wright, was nauseating.

You have to hand it to the filth.

Seven and a half decades ago, the glorious voice of Joseph Schmidt captivated a world which, superior to ours, was capable of appreciating it.

Came across this going through the archives. Done in the mid-90s. Such true words, so lethally unheeded. I can't improve on them now, and I can influence events even less than back then.

Here's the latest Mario gem from my collection that Gregster has posted on YouTube. This is a home recording, and unfortunately the lads weren't keeping their eyes on the levels.

Here is an example of the comprachicoed conceptual cripples and moral monsters who exemplify America's transformation into Airhead America.

Geert Wilders appeared on 'Hannity' today, promoting his book, A Marked Man. Oh to hear such clarity from an American politician:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/161...

Among the sidebars on the Intellectual Property thread is a discussion of the religiosity of Objectivists, who, it is claimed (by the anti-IP posters), routinely display a morbid predilection for name-calling and mantra-repetition in lieu of original thought (even though most of the name-calling on that thread comes from the non-Objectivist anti-IP quarter, while the main pro-IP advocate, Objectivist Michael Moeller, comports himself unimpeachably).

Mr Aglialoro evidently said to the critics of Pt 1 at one point, "You won" and decided to abandon the project.

Painter Jon McNaughton has sparked a firestorm with this entirely accurate depiction of Obamarx's relationship with the Constitution:

Here's Mario singing a beautiful tune from the pen of one of the greatest melodists in the American Songbook, Jerome Kern. Make Believe from Showboat.

Big Government advocate and Obamarx apologist Bob Beckel had a meltdown yesterday on Hannity. It was, as they say, as funny as a fart at a funeral. Here it is unbleeped:

Here is why a new force for freedom in NZ is necessary. Banks, the feral conservative, along with Prebble (Rodney's got something on him, obviously), Chris Simmons (MBA focus-group moron par excellence), Isaac (social-climber extraordinaire), Boscawen (Boscevik—"I want to stop all this libertarian stuff"), et al:

I am very old, by the standards of the adolescent adenoidal airheads who now rule the world. Well, in my apparently unbelievably long lifetime there have been only two Presidents worthy of the title: Kennedy and Reagan.

It doesn't get much better than this. A Ferrari of music: the Intermezzo from Jewels of the Madonna by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari.

Decisive proof that humor is history, thanks to Political Correctness:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/a...

[From the archives, originally a 1999 Politically Incorrect Show editorial, reprised to coincide with Tom Burroughes' thread, Do You Want to Be in My Gang? The last line, given what has actually happened in the last thirteen years, shows me to have been wildly over-optimistic.]

"The poorest bargain that a man can make," wrote Robert G. Ingersoll, "is to give his individuality for what is called respectability."

It's very seldom one has reason to revel in an occasion such as this, so to revel one ought.

This in my inbox today from Sean Gabb of the UK Libertarian Alliance, reminded me that those with a drinking problem are those who don't drink, and that studies have shown that alcohol deficiency leads to totalitarian tendencies.

I remember the furore caused by Pt 1 , where I posted The Priests singing Schubert's Ave Maria and pointed out that Objectivism was still failing to capture the sense of sacredness hitherto monopolised, with obscene inappropriateness, by Goblianity.

Yesterday, Oirishman O'Cresswell drew my attention to an article on his blog, www.pc.blogspot.co.nz , by Libertarianz leader Richard McGrath, repudiating his erstwhile support for Ron Paul in particular and Saddamy in general.

SOLO-International Op-Ed: Away with Apologitis!

Lindsay Perigo
March 7, 2012

The Anti-American President recently apologized to Islamosavages for the burning of copies of their Book of Barbarism by American soldiers in Afghanistan.