It's that kind of day in the office..'They've got a very good bass section, but no top tenors..." Zulu - Final Attack

Seattle Opera "Myself I Shall Adore" - Brenda Rae - Worth getting on a plane for!

"Myself I Shall Adore" - Brenda Rae - YouTube

Swirling on the way down...Oh joy! Sean Penn has tried to crack a joke » The Spectator

Oh joy! Sean Penn has tried to crack a joke » The Spectator

Bizarre outbreak of Brotherhood reported in Germany...Beethoven Flashmob Mensa Heidelberg #HDFlashmob - YouTube

Beethoven Flashmob Mensa Heidelberg #HDFlashmob - YouTube

Montauk Restaurateur Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion |- my old favorite, Le Périgord on East 52nd St. The East Hampton Star

Montauk Restaurateur Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion | The East Hampton Star

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Dietrich Fischer Dieskau, accompanied by Alfred Brendel: Der Lindenbaum Die Winterreise, by Franz Schubert

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How many data points do you require before you get it? The toxic Islamic subculture of Europe, it's supine 'multicultural' Leftist defenders, the BDS crowd, etc. need to be addressed. Random Here | The Weekly Standard

Nothing Random Here | The Weekly Standard:



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Soon we will be able to walk to New Jersey!

Happy Valentine's Day! John Dowland's "Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite"

Orfeo - Claudio Monteverdi - for those who would go to hell for love!

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I dream of Spring - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, accompanied by Murray Perihia - Franz Schubert, Die Winterreise Op.89, XI. Fruhlingstraum

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Happy Valentine's Day

"wonderfully unsuited" Charles Dickens on divorce... Report | Lapham’s Quarterly

Autopsy Report | Lapham’s Quarterly: " wonderfully unsuited "



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Obama's Prayer Breakfast

One of my favorites - Georg Frideric Händel Semele with Cecilia Bartoli - Semele Charles Workman- Jupiter Brigit Remmert - Juno Liliana Niketanu - Ino Anton Scharinger - Cadmus/Somnus Thomas Michael Allen - Athamas Isabel Rey - Iris Opernhaus Zürich 2007

Handel-Semele-Opernhaus Zürich 2007 - YouTube

“At about 11 o’clock it was evident that the last stage might endure for many hours, unknown to the patient but little comporting with the dignity and serenity which he so richly merited and which demanded a brief final scene. Hours of waiting just for the mechanical end when all that is really life has departed only exhausts the onlookers and keeps them so strained that they cannot avail themselves of the solace of thought, communion or prayer. I therefore decided to determine the end and injected (myself) morphia gr. 3/4 and shortly afterwards cocaine gr. 1 into the distended jugular vein.” George V’s physician sped up his death

How George V’s physician sped up his death

Astonishing - Draft of Arrest Warrant for Argentine President Christina de Kirchner Found at Dead Prosecutor’s Home - NYTimes.com

Draft of Arrest Warrant for Argentine President Found at Dead Prosecutor’s Home - NYTimes.com

Our culture knows something about hellfire and brimstone, and I believe it's time for a multicultural exchange. Burns Jordanian Pilot Alive in Cage On Video - Breitbart

ISIS Burns Jordanian Pilot Alive in Cage On Video - Breitbart

The Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, is not sure.

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