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Eric Clapton is the The Blues Modern Master

We’ve hinted at it before, but now we’re officially saying: “Eric Clapton is the Modern Master of The Blues.”  For 50 years Eric Clapton has dedicated his life to celebrating American Blues in the mainstream of popular music.

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Colored in Black and The Blues

The history of the African-American experience in America is one of a human rage colored in Black and The Blues. 

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The Zoo Bar in Lincoln Since 1973

The Zoo Bar in Lincoln, Nebraska has been streaming live Blues music into the world since 1973.

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Obama Inaugural Invitation

Yesterday, I received this presidential inauguration invitation in the mail — is it authentic?

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The Cultural Value of Teak

If we find value in beauty, then our culture must be sensitive to the preservation of all beauty in any form.  A teak tree provides shade and longevity and wood from the tree will protect us if we accommodate its living.

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A World We Will Never Know

If our moral duty is to help prepare our children to live in the future without us — how are we able to sustain that teaching without a place in that world?

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Wealth Against Commonwealth and the Wrath of the Present Past

When we get lost, the first place we look to find our way back home is a yearning glance over our shoulder.  We turn back to discover the forward of where we’ve been and how we’ve come to be here.  Sometimes we learn the lessons of the past.  Sometimes we condemn our future by ignoring the warnings of a world gone awry in antiquity, and we pay for the sins of that dishonest disremembering by reliving the death and blood of our forefathers.  In 1894, Henry Demarest Lloyd warned us in his incredible — Wealth Against Commonwealth — book that “Big Business” corrupts liberty and sets national agendas of death and killing for the almighty dollar.  Over a hundred years later, we have yet to heed Lloyd’s warning as we sink deeper into an international depression of our own undoing.

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Business is Not Family

Historically, many businesses have started as family operations.  Everyone was blood related.  There was a clear chain of command and an unspoken plan for pressing down the power and handing over control of the company.

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Hitler Rears His Waxen Head Again

Is a waxen Hitler as dangerous as the real Hitler?

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And We Shall Follow Him

Last night, Barack Obama became the nominee of the democrat party — even though some on the Clinton side still feel he cannot win in November.

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