It’s already been 10 years since Pink Floyd’s last original song…

On the subversive power of welcoming Spring.

French theorist Renée Girard, in his influential 1972 study Violence and the Sacred, argued that the origins of human religion are rooted in the ever-present threat of all-consuming, retributive violence…

One death is murder; a million deaths is a statistic.

On Wilco’s career-saving Hail Mary, it’s companion piece Kid A by Radiohead, and how everyone’s a burning sun.

My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Someone else who needs to get back into his little room…

What you do after the revolution was never televised.

“This is not the house of God.  This house IS God.”

I have only belatedly gotten into Sixto Rodriguez—but then, in fairness, so did everyone.