There is no greater piano concerto than the Brahms Concerto No. 2. Except perhaps the Brahms Concerto No. 1.

At one time the conscientiously cerebral Stephen Hough favoured the No. 1. Then he came to prefer No. 2. For my money, there's not a lot between them except twenty-two years, with less explosiveness and greater serenity in the later work. Both are stellar exemplars of the greatest genre in music, the Romantic genre. Both combine the grandeur of a symphony, the passion of an opera, the tenderness of a love ballad, the torment of high tension and the rapture of repose. Both touch every emotion ever quickened by a beating heart. Both attain aching heights of sublimity.

Never one to miss an opportunity.

Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho is the only guy who could out-Trump Trump, but that would be by walking over and throttling him, which would be a glorious return to Roman Empire-era polit

To quote Lindsay's last post:

"Gosh, Story, a bit of notice would be nice before you flash naked people to my 8-yr-old on your 7 pm TV show. I know your CEO has stepped down but there are still TV standards, right?"

Actually, no.

One common argument that is ubiquitous from Objectivists, and has been for decades, is that there is an equal or substantial threat coming from both sides of the political spectrum.

Objectivist cultism isn't just a matter of zealously censoring the words, and monstrously excommunicating the persons, of all who study Objectivist theory extensively and deeply -- and then dare to do

Hattip Lindsay Mitchell, a quotation from New Zealand's cheerleader of the totalitarian state, The Morgan Foundation, and the excrement who leads it, Geoff Simmons:

Haven't posted one of these for a while. Proof that not all—only 99.99%—of millennials are moronnials, and my answer to the pig-ignorant mewlings of the sub-humans who say Romantic-era music is "tepid."

Arguing on Gitter last night against the (offensive) Chief Censor's ban of signage on a camping rental company's vans, namely, three signs semi-comically supporting drug use (one for cocaine, two f

If you can make out what this adenoidal airhead is saying, you'll realise she's not actually an airhead, merely adenoidal.

This:

"My foreign policy will always put the interests of the American people, and American security, above all else. That will be the foundation of every decision that I will make," Trump said. "'America first' will be the major and overriding theme of my administration."

Aspirations, Gaza Death Tunnels, Schools of Hope
By Edward Hudgins

Great to hear you’ve got a sequel in the offing.

An update, sir, on the matter of scarcity. Separate post as I didn’t want to hijack Olivia’s thread.

Government should be by contract only. The citizen and the state should come to a mutual, official, legal agreement.

If there were any flaws in the performances on Saturday night (April 16, 2016) by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra—with conductor Edo de Waart, violinist Nicola Benedetti and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich—of Beethoven (Eroica Symphony) and Brahms (Double Concerto) then this reviewer couldn't hear them, and it would be churlish to mention them anyway, so sublime was the grandeur attained.

Rarely in this age of militant anti-heroism, of woeful appeasement of evil, of weasel-worded MBA-speak, does one have an opportunity to see an actual hero in action.

Marguerite - Movie review
By Edward Hudgins

Mulling Mahleria and Moronnials

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Saturday April 2, 2016,
Michael Fowler Centre

The end-times presaged by the state of our culture seemed frighteningly imminent in Wellington on Saturday night. Along the waterfront an assortment of homegrown headbangers caterwauled mercilessly, in what was, apparently, an organised event; along the streets, the prone bodies of their fans—the flower of contemporary moronnials—blocked doorways and shouted irresistibly erudite profundities such as "What the fuck?!" and "Fuck off!" to the world at large and no one in particular.

I am greatly saddened by the death of Tibor Machan. Though our friendship became a casualty of the PARC Wars, I retain and cherish superlative memories of the time he spent under my roof, being in New Zealand to deliver a SOLO lecture and talk to student groups and anyone who wanted to listen to him. His conversation was incessant, diverse and endlessly illuminating.

Obama Says Israel’s Prosperity Obstructs Peace
By Edward Hudgins

Western Civilization continues to live with wild animals in its midst. And it continues to praise the philosophy of these wild animals. So the devastation of the West by the animals goes on.

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Harry Richardson

Charter for Compassion International have recently released a guidebook on Islamophobia. After reviewing it, we can honestly say we had no idea it was such a problem.

Unfortunately, some of this seems to apply to Donald Trump.

This is the sort of sense-of-life thing Narcissistic infantile moronnials, scummy socialists, neurotically utopic Randroids and Obleftivists, and headbanging caterwaulers alike don't get:

While those without eyes to see or discerning judgment join the Left's (and their Republican lackeys) latest Two-Minute Hate against The Donald, others with some sense should consider this:

I understand why the Left hates Trump. But here is my question for the smarter posters here. Why does the mainstream right hate Trump? Why does a weakling moderate like Romney fear Trump?

Imagine a country where the average person earned $10 per hour; $12-50 if you had been there 20 years and did lots of overtime.

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Cruz Makes Play for Libertarian Voters. Is Anybody Game?