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Month: January, 2009

President Obama

Barack Obama is now the 44th President of the United States. And while my classmates squeal with glee at the prospect of the promised Glorious Socialist Utopia that lays ahead, I somehow find myself less than enthusiastic. After all, do we really expect economic policies that failed so magnificently under men like Johnson and Carter [...]

Ben Mink’s Foreign Exchange

It’s never been re-pressed on vinyl or released on CD, but Ben Mink’s Foreign Exchange has quickly become one of my favorite albums. Released in 1980, it is a magnificent, genre-defying mixture of bluegrass, progressive rock, and virtuoso jazz bound together by Mink’s mastery of a wide variety of stringed instruments. Best known for his [...]