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Thursday night, I headed to downtown Lancaster to catch the band Kingsfoil, a Central Pa. band who are really good. One of their claims to fame is that they used to have a drummer formerly from some TV show. Really not worth looking up. I think it was Malcolm In The Middle. I have been listening to Kingsfoil for the last couple of months on Spotify. Time will tell if Spotify's model will work. Americans like to mooch without paying up. Although, I have been amused by people complaining on  Facebook, who should know better, about the ads directed at us freeloaders. As the old saying goes, "Beggars can't be choosers." My conscience was bothering me because I don't have any intention of paying up on Spotify. Just like iPhone apps. If I have to pay for them, I am not downloading them. So, I accept the AutoZone guys screaming and even the occasional condom ad on Spotify. Yet, I think artists deserve support. So, there to the Lancaster Convention Center I went. Con...

“Since then your serene majesty and your lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed: Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not retract anything, since it is neither sale nor right to go against conscience. I cannot do otherwise, here I stand, may God help me, Amen." On this date in history, Luther appeared before the Diet of Worm and the Emperor, to either recant or reaffirm his writings. He had asked the previous day to have the night to consider his response. The above paragraph is his concluding statement. I have been recently listening to a Podcast about the History of Rome from its inception to destruction of the Empire. I have been ama...