As Luck Would Have It
As a Conservative, one would expect that I'd listen to right-wing radio, watch Fox News, and have a Sean Hannity tee-shirt. Often when I am in those fun social media debates with Liberals, they assume that my media consumption is red-state meat. The rawer, the better. Nope, I am a NPR and Public Radio junkie. WXPN down in Philly plays the best music around. I even support them financially, as I feel art and music are essential to human flourishing. Don't worry, I get in plenty of debates with hard-core conservatives, too. Probably, some of them residing in Stalingrad. Due to Vlad's dark reign over Russia, I am reverting back to calling St. Petersburg Stalingrad because Putin is becoming Stalin by degrees. He wants to make Russia Great Again...which it never was. Unless one extols the virtues of the Gulag. I will grant the Russian Writers are great. That peculiar harshness of life brings something shining out of the soul. Yet, I doubt any of the great Russian writers w...