Posted on 04/30/2014 1:11:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
And is there another site on this list that is free of advertising? That doesn’t try to link us through other social media sites? Where site ownership goes to such links to try to protect our privacy?
Thank you, JimRob!
Yes, admittedly I do tend be fairly narrow in my reading choices. Likewise with music, I've never purchased a rock recording since I prefer the joyous, inspirational sounds of Southern Gospel music: The Florida Boys, The Happy Goodman Family, Hemphills, Blackwood Brothers and so on. I do have some secular country music as well: Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Connie Smith and a few more in my smallish collection.
With some shame, I'll add that a few Willie Nelson recordings were in my collection. A few weeks ago, I put them in a metal barrel, doused them with lighter fluid and joyfully watched the vinyl burn. Yes, I knew that he was a dopehead and liberal but when he came out in full-throated support of murdering babies, that's when the ultimate evil of Willie Nelson became fully apparent and thus I dispatched all of his recorded material. Most of the albums had a picture of him on the cover and as the fellows from Enron reportedly said, "Burn baby burn!" :)
It's not always possible in the vile world of the obama/holder cabal but I really try to avoid wickedness or even the appearance of it as best I can.
It's interesting that the #1 site is still on top, even after carving the #3, #13, #15, and #24 sites out of it. Then comes the #25 site.
Yes, as a discussion site. The sites above it are all news organs or journals of opinion (e.g. NR).
Addendum: To elaborate just a bit, the previous list of books cited in my earlier post are those that I actively seek out for enjoyment and inspiration. Yes, it's indeed narrow and would make it appear that I'm not well-read. To the contrary! While not for enjoyment, I have read even these titles: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Mein Kempf, Das Kapital and Ten Days that Shook the World, all of which I consider more along the lines of doing opposition research since none were enjoyable.
The Autobiography has always suggested to me that Malcolm was headed towards conservatism at the end of his life. It’s part of why he was killed. If you’ve read all of ‘Das Kapital’ you may be the only one in the world. One of Marx’s main biographers admitted at the end of his life that he never read the whole thing.
“Yes, it’s indeed narrow and would make it appear that I’m not well-read. “
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I never for a moment thought that you were not well read because you had narrow reading choices.
I detest science-fiction and romance novels,but I’ll try anything.
We all have our likes and dislikes.
Happy reading !!!
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Oh come on The Odyssey can The Divine Comedy can be called Science Fiction. You don’t detest those I hope?
“and The Divine Comedy”
I read those 60 years ago.
Did I like them? Who knows?
:-)
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I'm not necessarily sure that Malcolm Little would have been a Tea Party member but he did support the Second Amendment. And his hateful strain of Islam did moderate a tad when he made the trip to Mecca. The movie did take some liberties and wasn't 100% harmonious with Alex Haley's book. One such liberty in the film that made me chuckle is when the FBI was wiretapping Little's phone and an agent remarked, "...this guy's a saint compared to [Martin Luther] King."
As for Das Kapital, I did read the English translation and it was tedious, slow-going but I made it through Marx's plodding, laborious text. I recall that around that same time (decades ago), shortly after finishing Marx's tome, I picked up The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, another voluminous work of 700+ pages. After getting beaten down by Marx's prose, Mann's classic seemed almost like a magazine article in comparison. Or as I now put it, Marx...you're no Mann! :)
As for Mann, watch out for ‘Death in Venice’ which you’d probably hate...a decrepit old homosexual painter lusts after a teenage Adonis. BTW I’ll reiterate what I said earlier...Nabokov was no smut peddler. Lolita is not pornographic and doesn’t glorify pedophilia any more than Macbeth glorifies regicide.
Wow! I thought I was the only one who hated that genre. As I've posted previously here on Free Republic, I may be the only person in the world that has seen not a nanosecond of either Star Wars or Star Trek. It's not from a sense of haughtiness since I know both are widely acclaimed -- science fiction just isn't my wheelhouse, as they say. Nevertheless, I've enjoyed the acting skills of William Shatner in other vehicles, notably his minor (but still important) role as Captain Byers in Judgment at Nuremberg as well as Denny Crane in Boston Legal in this outstanding clip especially.
but nothing above is really conservative
” I may be the only person in the world that has seen not a nanosecond of either Star Wars or Star Trek. “
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Well you have company now-—I never saw either of them either. When “Star Wars” came out I had a house full of teenagers and that’s ALL they talked about but I never gave in.
I enjoy crossword puzzles and occasionally wish I had seen them because they are referenced frequently.
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Have you seen this one with him?
bump
I wouldn't call Ann Althouse conservative. She's more centrist, possibly center-left. However, from what I've read from her, she is fair-minded.
...Thanks. I doubt that but we press on.
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