Grab bag: Laws and hypotheses

I’m only a lay reader and not a theologian, but having grown up working my way through various gospels I find this sort of stuff–which gospel came first, and what other traditions might be in play in the later ones?–fascinating.

Guerrieri’s First Law? “The perceived difference between the musical past and the musical present is a symptom of the limitations of information technology.” I think this axiom only works in classical music: it doesn’t explain the timelessness of Nick Drake compared with the temporal anomaly of, for instance, Hanson.

Really? I’m not sure I see the point… and looking at the download it’s all PHP code, with no .NET glue that I can see. Very odd.

A full plain-English explanation of how AIG took itself over the edge with incredible hubris and why we’re still on the hook to bail them out. Required reading for those who still don’t understand why trusting financial institutions with strings-free bailout money is a bad idea.

The hagiography on display here is a far cry from Joe Gross’s more tough-nosed take on the album. I guess I’ll have to hear it for myself.

I started losing my shit when Larry wrote about Steppenwolf singer John Kay getting a beatdown from Junior Wells, whose song he had just stolen on stage, and lost it completely reading about the demise of the toughest motorcycle gang in Minnesota. Absolutely essential reading.