http://www.carterhayes.org brought to you by The Carter Hayes Foundation Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:40:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en She may not look like much, but she's got had it where it counts, kid. http://www.carterhayes.org/?p=186 Animation discovered via Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish. There are a couple things which seem incredible and noteworthy about this representation of the opening movement to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, quite likely the preeminent piece of music, not just of the Classical or Western canon, but in all of human history. First, one marvels ... http://www.carterhayes.org/?p=163 This morning I rode the bus in to the university as usual, arriving on campus at about 9:30.  As I walked up the path from Van Vleck Hall to Bascom Hall, I noticed the flag was flying over the building at full-mast.  Of course, given today is what ... http://www.carterhayes.org/?p=159 One of the world's most deplorable (and unfortunately, untried) war criminals, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, died in the early hours of the morning today, aged 93 years.  McNamara's New York Times' obituary names him "the most influential defense secretary of the 20th century," a fitting epithet for a ... http://www.carterhayes.org/?p=141 The last few months I was in Iraq I was stationed on this tiny-ass FOB (FOB Givens, on the border with Jordan) way out in BFE. There was a mosque right next to our perimeter, and the mosque's minaret overlooked our entire position, which was somewhat unsettling for us. The Minaret ... http://www.carterhayes.org/?p=128 The tumult in Iran has lasted late into the night, and yet, here in America, the cable news networks are firmly in fire-and-forget weekend programming mode. Larry King was on during his regularly scheduled slot this evening, MSNBC is running it's standard "documentaries" on prison life, and CSPAN-3 was airing ... http://www.carterhayes.org/?p=125 Oscar Emmanuel Peterson b. 15 Aug 1925, Montreal, Quebec, Canada d. 23 Dec 2007, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Oscar Peterson has died. There will be numerous obituaries in the coming days, lauding a "jazz giant," "one of the greatest jazz pianists of the 20th Century," or even "the best damn jazz pianist in ... http://www.carterhayes.org/?p=124 About a month ago my friend Tim invited me to be the "conservative" co-author of his blog, Dammit. I was initially hesitant to accept because I didn't want to disappoint him the way I've disappointed myself here, but I realized that I needn't force myself into a daily, or ... http://www.carterhayes.org/?p=120 One of the surest ways to kill off any blog readership one might have is to quit posting for seven months. I'm sure the dearth of new content here has done the work of the harshest of winters in this part of the worldwide digital vineyard. The cycle ... http://www.carterhayes.org/?p=119 Mucking around on the Internets as I do, I often will come across some truly incredible sites that no one seems to know about. At least I think that must be the case, because no one is telling me about them. In the interest of getting to bed ... http://www.carterhayes.org/?p=117