It’s not quite Friday night, but Earl Scruggs, one of this country’s musical greats, deserves it.
J.L. Wall
J.L. Wall is a native Kentuckian in self-imposed exile to the Midwest, where he teaches writing to college students and over-analyzes Leonard Cohen lyrics.
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/3/2025The lines I normally draw are... 1) Can an otherwise uninvolved student still function? If the prote…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/3/2025Heh I mean this respectfully but I'd say the phrase 'doing a lot of work there' is itself doing a lo…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/3/2025It seems to me that "certain ways" is doing a lot of work there. I was surprised that Douthat brough… on Open Mic for the week of 3/3/2025DavidTC: Firstly, not letting people through unless they denounced Israel is _not_ discrimination ag…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/3/2025Criticism increased when a January 2024 recording of one organizer, Khymani James, saying “Zionists…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/3/2025Man, it really sucks that this precedent has been set, then. I mean, I'd have to argue for saying th… on Open Mic for the week of 3/3/2025Firstly, not letting people through unless they denounced Israel is _not_ discrimination against any…
on SCOTUS Does Not Exist to Please You, Especially Amy Coney BarrettExercising cancellation provisions does require payments for work ordered (as well as the creation a… on Open Mic for the week of 3/3/2025There's still a cultural Catholicism to France that I think is helpful in certain ways. It isn't a m…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/3/2025Douthat's reference to Catholicism being a unifying factor is a little bizarre given the fact that h…
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The prettiest piece of bluegrass I knowReport
Earl was the guy that got me into bluegrass. “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” was the first tune I ever learned to play. He will be missed.Report