Culture
America does a lousy job oppressing minorities
“When ISIS oppresses the people it conquers, women and children are raped and killed. When America oppresses racial minorities, they become presidents and NFL quarterbacks. There seems to be a disconnect here.”
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Hillary Clinton and Mother Teresa discuss abortion
I have brought together two famous women to discuss, in their own words, the biggest issue of the past generation: human abortion.
Mother Teresa is about to be canonized as the next saint in the Roman Catholic Church, and Hillary Clinton, based on current polling, is poised to become the next president of the United States.
The subject is abortion. Ms. Clinton, would you begin please?
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Mel Gibson confirms that a sequel to “The Passion of the Christ” is in the works
A call for an injection of creativity in the arts
The most basic interval in music is a perfect third.
If you listen to much popular music, and I admit I don’t, you’ll be clubbed over the head with the sound, as the video above demonstrates.
A good friend of mine taught music theory at a local university. He is an outstanding musician in his own right, with a Phd in music. He explained what the public appreciates the most in song writing: predictability.
Their minds expect a certain, predictable ‘next note’ to occur following a series of (usually predictable) notes that precede it. It is almost as if God had hard-wired man to appreciate certain tones, and the progression of these tones, more than others…
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