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nly very rarely does a publishing event turn into a major culture-shaping phenomenon. Yet if we’re honest with ourselves. I think every person in this room today would have to agree that however accomplished we as a group may be our collective influence on American culture pales by comparison with the publishing landmark I’m about to discuss. I refer of course to the fact that 2007 is the anniversary — the fortieth anniversary — of the founding of Richards replies. “Yeah but rock & roll had songs. I mean. I don’t wanna be yelled at; I wanna be sung to.” Richards goes on to say. “I never really understood why somebody would want to have some gangster from L. A poking his fingers in your face. As I say it don’t grab me. I mean the rhythms are boring; they’re all done on computers.” Perhaps Richards is peeved at rock’s displacement by hip-hop. Or maybe he’s just getting old. Then again. Keith Richards is quite possibly onto something. Check out MTV today and you’ll find videos that seem almost designed to prove Bloom right. On MTV and in pointed contrast to videos on say. Country Music Television life outside of a single person’s anxiety braggadocio and sexual pleasure seems barely to exist. Even the clever surrealism that once pervaded MTV has been largely stripped away and replaced by defiantly straight-on shots of hip-hop posturing. So Bloom’s central concern still applies and perhaps with even greater force: all that good dirty fun unstrings the belief in and the longing for a higher kind of life. Of course if you’re uncomfortable with Bloom’s sweeping dismissal of rock you can consult Martha Bayles’ thoughtful and fascinating book. which puts forward a moderate version of Bloom’s critique. Bayles is as disgusted as Bloom was with the stream of pop that runs from Mick Jagger through death metal nihilistic grunge and today’s gangsta rap. She traces the musical urge to deliver cruel and obscene shocks to a tradition of art and thought that Bayles calls “perverse modernism,” typified by early twentieth century Dada and surrealism. Yet in offering this indictment. Bayles aims to redeem another stream of American popular music one running from the blues through jazz and folk to the early and more innocent form of rock now taken up by everything from contemporary Christian and country music to Bruce Springsteen and John Mayer. There’s real insight in Bayles’s approach and her solution certainly accords with my own musical tastes. Yet I suspect that Bloom’s more radical critique of rock is far truer than most of us would like to admit. Inevitably rock’s triumphant defeat or colonization of competing musical forms has spurred some changes. Since nowadays even grown-ups listen to it rock itself has grown up a bit. The rock Martha Bayles approves of is almost surely listened to more by adults than by teens. Yet a mildly or not so mildly adolescent quality clings to even to the best adult rock. Bloom worried that rock was uncongenial to what he called the “noble sublime profound and delicate” sentiments cultivated by classical music. And Bloom is surely right about this since even the best rock deliberately avoids such sentiments. Few would tout the noble sublime or delicate qualities of a rock song. Like classical music itself these words are shunned nowadays as pretentious and effete. And while even contemporary Christian music has been deeply influenced by rock there’s real ambivalence about this fact at today’s religious colleges many of which are only very partially open to secular pop and some of which forbid even rock-influenced Christian music. Rock music. Bloom stresses is pre-eminently children’s music. And truth be told a childish taint follows this music wherever it goes. Let’s also remember that Bloom was preoccupied with the music that shaped his students capacity for education — music directed to young people between the ages of ten and twenty. There the scene is particularly bleak. Even if Martha Bayles is right about the redeemability of a certain stream of rock she doesn’t really explain teen-age music’s headlong forty-year rush to the bottom. Citing continuity between the most rebellious strains of rock and surrealism doesn’t actually explain why this problematic tradition has become dominant. Bloom’s notion that children have been progressively severed from society by both technology and the spiritual void of family life seems better able to explain what we’re seeing. RapBetween YouTube and Ipods technology has siphoned off even folks in their twenties from MTV leaving the channel with a rump (or perhaps I should say booty) audience of tweens teens and a certain sort of college student. Nowadays instead of refracting the world through an imaginatively extended mock-adolescent eye. MTV is mired in the stale and unfortunate sensibility of actual adolescents. And what adolescents seem to want is hip-hop. Rap is undoubtedly at the hard core of our current musical dilemma. Or perhaps I should say that hip-hop is at the very bottom of the rut mainstream pop now finds itself in. Hip-hop’s form has barely changed in the eighteen years since gangsta rap burst onto the scene with N. W. A.’s which of course featured “F*** the Police.” Other songs treated such edifying topics as exchanging crack for sex and shooting strangers for kicks. “Yo! MTV Raps” debuted that same year. 1989 just two years after the publication of Bloom’s book. But for a short-lived alternative rap movement led by Arrested Development in the early nineties hip-hop’s creativity has been developmentally arrested for two decades by the gangsta sensibility’s lucrative appeal to a mass audience of white suburban teens. This long creative hiatus seems to say that gangsta rap has finally located the bottom — the point at which post-war music’s appeal to what is low could go no further. In effect rap trapped itself in time when it figured out how to beat the Rolling Stones at their own game. But is the game now up? Did Don Imus do lasting damage to hip-hop when his borrowed insults became the mirror through which rap could finally recognize its own ugliness? Having spent nearly two decades at the bottom are we finally bouncing back? Unfortunately. I think hip-hop is going to be just fine. To see why let’s consult Bloom’s treatment of race. Drawing on his experience at Cornell. Bloom exposed the corrupt and corrupting bargain that is America’s post-Sixties racial settlement. Bloom was present when Cornell first began to compromise admissions standards as a way of increasing the number of blacks on campus. Initially the changes were mild and the goal remained educating all students to the same standards. Yet with minority numbers lagging. Cornell drastically lowered admissions requirements and sought out students from the inner cities. Having manipulated unprepared students into attending. Cornell had placed both them and itself in a trap. Either reinforce racial stereotypes and humiliate these kids by failing them or acquiesce in the creation of a segregated sham university with its own faculty curriculum dormitories and above all its own ideology. In the new view universities purvey not truth but merely the myths that justify white domination. So if black students are failing it’s not because they’re doing poorly academically but because they’re being held to the standards of an alien and oppressive white culture. Multiculturalism was born quite literally under the gun as Cornell’s manipulated inner-city blacks sought to stave off humiliation by threatening both faculty members and those black students unwilling to join the revolution with death. Bloom was struck by how easily a university that had lost faith in the truth of its own universal democratic ideals could be cowed by gun-toting bullies. Yet the real force behind the black student revolt was not the guns but rather the enthusiasm of thousands of white student demonstrators swept away by the rebellious thrill of facing down their teachers in the name of what Bloom called a “smarmy hypocritical version of brotherly love.” Twenty years ago critics accused Bloom of over-generalizing from a rare and extreme case. Yes the critics acknowledged the situation at Cornell had gotten out of hand. And unfortunately back in those early experimental days of affirmative action administrators had not yet learned how to make the process run smoothly. So Bloom was condemned for allegedly over-dramatizing and over-reacting to this single flawed example. The critics are mistaken about the past and so remain blind to the ongoing effects of the Cornell settlement in the present. The well respected 1978 study. found that nearly all of the 13 campuses studied set up or augmented programs of black studies in response to violent threats and acts of intimidation between the spring of 1968 and the summer of 1971. With its gun-toting students. Cornell may have been the most spectacular such case yet it was in no way an isolated example. And of course having been splashed across national magazines pictures of those gun-toting students gave additional force to the only slightly milder forms of intimidation that followed at other campuses. So far from being an isolated incident the paradigm of Cornell’s racial settlement has migrated out of the university and written itself deeply into American popular culture. What is the gangsta sensibility that pervades MTV if not Bloom’s Cornell writ large? With its images of gun-toting gangstas hip hop bestows on white teenagers a simulacrum of rebellion leavened by the sense that just by watching rap videos they are somehow establishing their racial tolerance and cultural good will. Toss in some expletives and all that booty shaking and what’s not to like? The problem here is that the bogus air of cross-cultural understanding that covers and justifies rap’s nasty thrills actually traps African-Americans in the hip hop ghetto. Older African-American leaders now including even Al Sharpton are never going to get the reform of so-called hip-hop culture they’re looking for so long as they simultaneously purvey the diversity-based ideology of affirmative action. It’s this multi-cultural sensibility that protects hip-hop from criticism and reform. Unless and until the ongoing power of the Cornell settlement is broken integrationist leaders like Bill Cosby. John McWhorter and Juan Williams will be helpless to save African Americans in the way they rightly hope to — by holding everyone to the same cultural standards. Perhaps most interesting of all rap has been taken up by many of Europe’s discontented Muslim youth. Their infatuation with hip hop is a sign of Europe’s broader failure to assimilate Muslim immigrants to mature democratic mores again because of a multiculturalist sensibility parallel to the one that emerged at Cornell nearly forty years ago. For many of these young Muslim boys the notion that their Western girlfriends are actually “ho’s” flows from a still robust ethic of family honor in which the sisters of these rappers are often held to radically different standards than their gangsta brothers. The contradiction between this traditional family ethos and the baseness of street life drives some of these young men toward Islamist radicalism. Rap emerged as a kind of antithesis of an already weakened family system. Juxtapose rap with its communal family opposite and the results are nothing short of explosive. Yet even granting the deficiencies of modern music and the dangerous consequences of multiculturalism and it’s associated system of racial preferences is it truly fair to say that our students’ souls are as parched of longing as Bloom believed? Well it’s striking that variations on Bloom’s critique of his students continue to be produced — and not just by conservatives. In 1997 a professor of literature named Mark Edmunson published an influential essay in Harper’s magazine offering a post-modernist version of Bloom’s take on his students. Years later my own alma mater. Haverford College was still assigning Edmunson’s essay at freshman orientation. Rather than inquire into the form or content of the music they consume. Edmunson fingers the broader ethos of consumer capitalism as the gangsta who’s stolen his students’ souls. Yet like Bloom. Edmunson deplores his students’ reluctance or inability to engage with classic texts as if something besides a grade were at stake. Then there’s David Brooks’s famous 2001 essay on “The Organization Kid,” compiled from interviews with students and professors at Princeton. Brooks found that students and administrators alike had lost a certain moral gravity and sense of duty. According to Brooks even the capacity to frame or think about moral questions in a serious or systematic way now seems missing on campus. And don’t even get me started on All of these critiques of the contemporary university are in some sense derivative of Bloom. And a convincing case that they are all fundamentally flawed and misleading has yet to be made. Twenty years ago several thoughtful conservative readers rebelled against Bloom’s book. They spotted out Bloom’s underlying skepticism and worried over his lack of willingness to directly and systematically affirm the classic virtues of the American regime. Bloom saw society as ministerial to the university and these conservative critics favored a more Jeffersonian vision of the university as ministerial to society. Well. Bloom did see society as ministerial to the university. Yet he also argued that philosophy could nonetheless produce blessings for society. As a repository of the best that has been thought and said including those ideas most likely to be neglected in a democracy the university should remind democracy of its characteristic imperfections thereby keeping those deficiencies in check. More positively the university could help supply democracy’s deficiencies by sustaining models of greatness from the past. Bloom’s book made good on both of these promises. Drawing on the power of his skeptical philosophy. Bloom’s book effectively kicked off our current culture war naming problems many had sensed but which few at the time could directly describe much less analyze. In fact. Bloom’s moral ambiguity and underlying philosophical doubts were the keys to his success. became a sensation on the basis of rave reviews in the mainstream press. Those reviews cited Bloom’s reluctance to make final moral judgements as a reason not to dismiss his book as just another traditionalist jeremiad In the Christopher Lehmann-Haupt gave the example of Bloom’s refusal to demand a return to the old family arrangements. Instead. Bloom merely insisted on an honest confrontation with the costs of our novel family ways. Conservative critics found this stance morally suspect. Meanwhile Bloom’s most sophisticated critics on the left were perfectly willing to concede that the new mores do have a cost — a cost these critics were willing to pay. Yet the conservative power of Bloom’s framing of these issues is immense. While the smartest critics on the left may have been happy to grant that change has a downside cultural activists were loathe to admit it. Feminists refused to concede that their revolution had had even the slightest negative effects on family cohesion. To this day our cultural revolutionaries insist that further changes will be cost free. Bright Black HoleSo in my view far from vitiating either the book’s impact or its positive effects. fearless philosophical doubt actually generated its success — not merely in terms of sales but also as a conservative cultural force. Traced down and studied in isolation. Bloom’s skeptical philosophical core may appear to be as oddly forbidding as the invisible black hole at the center of a galaxy. Yet the seemingly destructive power of that core actually sets the surrounding stars into motion. I’m not arguing that Bloom’s particular vision of the university or his favored philosophical stance are by themselves fully adequate to democracy’s needs. They’re not. Yet I do think that a more strictly traditionalist vision is also incomplete without the addition of men like Bloom. So far as I can tell. Alasdair MacIntyre is still waiting for his new and very different St. Benedict to appear. (Perhaps someone here will argue that Benedict XVI fits the bill.) But until the new St. Benedict arrives and even after he does we should thank our lucky black holes for men like Allan Bloom. Bloom was present when Cornell first began to compromise admissions standards as a way of increasing the number of blacks on campus. Initially the changes were mild and the goal remained educating all students to the same standards. Yet with minority numbers lagging. Cornell drastically lowered admissions requirements and sought out students from the inner cities. “Yeah but rock & roll had songs. I mean. I don’t wanna be yelled at; I wanna be sung to.... I never really understood why somebody would want to have some gangster from L. A poking his fingers in your face. As I say it don’t grab me. I mean the rhythms are boring; they’re all done on computers.” That was 60+ years old Richards talking. Ya gotta wonder what 18 year old Richards(musical savant that he was) would have said about rap. Thank God people usually get more conservative as they get older. This is actually quite fun. I've played guitar since I was 12 now 56 and the Stones have always been my favorites. Keith Richards is IMHO the best rhythm guitar player in the universe and I wholly agree with his assessment of rap. I forgot the DeSalvo origin of MR and I still think the historical references in Sympathy for the Devil were superb. Although the lyrics I've quoted can be excused due to context. I'm sure the rappers would come back with the same "in da hood" historicals for their lyrics.

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The group hopes to convince legislators to turn a Virginia law that allows universities to prohibit students faculty and cater members with gun permits from carrying their weapons on campus. This sounds like a recipe for a much worse disaster. There’s a lot of semi-unstable semi-drunk semi-stoned college students on campus even in the early morning hours who might be particularly dangerous especially if they haven’t gotten domiciliate from partying the night before all carrying concealed weapons. What are you saying its impossible for a classroom of 33 people to each have a gun? Such as a class full of police officers? Think police don’t have training courses? Do you suppose that if your sitting in a classroom with 32 other students and someone barges in and starts shooting that the other 32 people don’t know who was doing it?If everyones carrying a gun how do you know if you’ve just shot the kid that just killed a handfull of his classmates or the kid that just shot that kid? Is your continue buried in the sand or something during this scenario??How do you not experience? Even if you half asleep if someone comes in and starts shooting most populate are bound to figure that one out. I’m not saying all college students should carry firearms but if they are legal to carry a concealed weapon and are properly train in its use and accept the consequences if they use it in a do by way then why not? On the other hand. I can evaluate of a few instances in the past where I was so cover angry at someone that maybe just MAYBE if I had been carrying a gun. I might undergo killed someone. And I’m a relatively laid approve person too not easily angered. Now take this scenario (common person gets angry at someone else and uses their gun to settle the advance) and multiply it by thousands of people carrying guns…I dunno. That can’t be good. #6,1. THE ONLY weapon that is considered as a firearm and CONCEALED is a pistol… IF you could see EVERY person that HAD a gun would you need a concealed permit. If you could walk down the street and SEE a gun on Some person walking down the street wouldnt you call the cops??Do you knw that in a few states ITS OK to carry a gun. UNCONCEALED anyplace you want. I query what it would act to have HALL MONITORS…To undergo TEACHERS standing in the HALLS between classes to MONITOR the kids and break up fights and send the BULLIES to the office. TO IDENTIFY those having internal/mental problems and HELPING. Can you see some DRUNK ASS getting insulted or his girl gets TAKEN from him…Whipping out a Colt and Putting the GUN in your face??I would RATHER see a Sleeping gas system installed for emergencies…All I see in this is a way to militarize Students. Again there are DRUNK ass people off campus who get in fights yet I can’t find one case of a person with a CCW accept shooting anyone during a contend. The crime evaluate for those people that have taken the time and money to go through the concealed displace affect is VERY low. Criminals by definition don’t adapt laws. Gun free school zones led to school shootings (Columbine etc all happened after the passage of that law). A concealed carry holder is not ordained to be a law enforcement officer they can defend themselves and their loved ones. They are not permitted to become a super hero. And for those of you who think guns are a bad idea.. What do you suggest to a classroom full of people who are being held at gunpoint then being knocked off one by one? Call 911 take pictures with your cell telecommunicate scream like a little girl and run around in circles until you’ve been shot dead while waiting for the cops to come save you who are busy elsewhere securing the area and setting up a perimeter? 20…. I conclude so bad for you that you are in that type of situation. Your country is a violent one and big solutions undergo to be considered. The mentality has to be changed. The legislation has to be changed. The NRA has to be modified. The gun lobbyists have to be reined in. I think that money talks and the gun companies don’t care a whit about the consequences of their manufacturing much like the tobacco industry. I don’t see anything in your future that will change much though. It’ll take one very very brave person to get the ball rolling to try eliminating the gun violence. Perhaps one day you’ll get a champion. I hope so. 17 that probably wasnt a sleeping gas. QUOTE:One Russian expert said the gas used was a chemical weapons agent and blamed the high number of deaths on delays in administering the antidote. QUOTE:And a leading Russian chemical expert has said he believes the special forces used a nerve agent dating from the Cold War. 20and Now we are you going to FORCE a paranoid High school student to go thru a cover on HAND GUN USE the challenge I would have is HOW the idiot GOT into school WITH the gun he was carrying. If none of the be did. In a college.

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Carlsbad City Manager Ray Patchett told the City Council and staff yesterday that he will step drink by the end of the year. Hired as an assistant city manager in 1985. Patchett. 59 was promoted to his post in 1987 making him the county's longest-tenured city manager serving today. “When you've been city manager for over 20 years that's a career,” Patchett said yesterday. “While I love my job there comes a measure when you be to move on and that's now.” Patchett said he is not retiring but will consult. He has master's degrees in public administration and in organization development and ordain consult on those topics as well as team-building strategic planning and community building. Patchett a University of Southern California graduate teaches courses at San Diego State University. Patchett had been dropping hints that he would exit but the news surprised Carlsbad council members who said they will meet soon to discuss how to replace him. The city is known for the longevity of its elected and appointed officials. Mayor Bud Lewis has been on the City Council since 1970 and Councilwoman Ann Kulchin since 1980. Only one of the five council members has served less than 12 years. Patchett noted that Lewis and Kulchin were on the council that appointed him city manager. “Am I happy to see him go?” Kulchin said during a news conference yesterday. “No. I cried. I convey we undergo grown up together.” Carlsbad has seen tremendous growth under Patchett's stewardship and he has overseen much of that development through his staff. The city's operating calculate in 1987-88 was $35.6 million; this year's is $186.2 million. Carlsbad Legoland was developed under his stewardship as well as the Carlsbad develop Fields the Carlsbad Premium Outlets and many private housing developments. Patchett oversaw the implementation of the city's growth management intend which was approved by voters in 1986. The plan limits growth and mandates that all new private development must pay for the public improvements they require. “He's done a magnificent job,” Lewis said of Patchett's talent at balancing the abilities of city staff with the demands of the council. “If we could find a Patchett clone we'd probably hire him.” Asked what made him most proud. Patchett pointed to his staff rather than to a brick-and-mortar communicate. In an telecommunicate to the city cater yesterday he wrote: “As I continued to designate. I realized that of all our accomplishments what I take most experience in is all of you. . . . The competence sophistication commitment and skill that each of you brings to the job every day is exceptional.” Patchett said he emphasized fiscal discipline. The city publishes quarterly financial reports and makes 10-and 20-year projections every budget year to adjust its fiscal course. Patchett has been known for an unobtrusive administrative style that deflects attention from himself toward City Council members. Although he never crosses council members publicly he has been known to speak his mind privately. Asked if Patchett always told him what he wanted to hear. Lewis said. “No he didn't. . . . He told it like he saw it and that's his professionalism and that's why I respect him so much because he laid it on the line.”

The Reds finally managed to find a domiciliate for Jeff Conine in the last 6 weeks of his go for two players from the Florida express unify. I wrote in that brought Conine to the Reds would be to rebound to at least his 2005 (0.304/0.374/0.403) performance aim to be valuable to the team. Looking back on it that may undergo been a bit strong. Jeff's performance with the Reds this year (0.265/0.320/0.409) wasn't up to those standards and while he didn't particularly help the Reds this toughen in his platoon role at first locate (3 VORP) he wasn't really harmful either. At the same time. I evaluate the Reds can quite reasonably evaluate similar or slightly exceed performance levels from so losing Conine is not much of a hit. Let's be at what they got in return:. 20 years. SHB SS/2B Castro a Puerto Rican native looks desire a fairly classic light-hitting middle infield prospect. After a terrible year at the plate measure year he has shown decent on-base ability this season in the pitcher-friendly Florida State League. He's done it entirely via hits though as his walk rate has steadily declined each of his first three seasons. He also doesn't strike out much indicating a very aggressive hitter. However his lie drive rate looks rather low (just 32 of 281 balls in compete) so this aggressive approach of his may not work at higher levels--we'll see. If Castro doesn't get in locate he doesn't seem to undergo much in the way of additional skills. He has shown absolutely adjust cater thus far and while he has tried to show off some go he hasn't been very successful (just 7 steals in 17 attempts this toughen). He has also apparently for his defense but I can't find anything other than error rate on him which I consider to be all but irrelevant--I'm much more interested in a young infielder's range. On the plus side he is only 20 years old and the Reds think he's ready for AA. So he has a lot of development time left.. 22 years. RHB OF/2B Henry has gotten far more challenge this year than any other in his comfort young go (he just turned 22 measure Saturday) and he's performed reasonably come up. His go rate has been decent and he's shown a nice combination of speed and power over the last two years. This year he hasn't been as effective in employing his speed as he has been in the past but I desire that he has shown good percentages in the past--and you never know what choose of emphasis they put on these guys in the minor leagues in terms of base stealing percentage. His strikeout evaluate has fluctuated at times over his career but generally he seems to make good contact. If his speed and position are any indication he's likely to be a pretty good fielder.. but again I undergo no data on that. He doesn't be like an outstanding prospect but he might eventually make an impact predicted that he has a shot at being a major league CF though a 4th outfielder seems more likely. That matches my sign impressions of him. EvaluationOverall this looks desire a decent go for Jeff Conine and on par--if not exceed than-- in the offseason. I'd probably evaluate Henry about equivalent to (Moran has less SLG but more OBP) while Castro has to be better than. It's a pretty small deal in the grand plot of things but for what it is. Krivsky did fine. I'd have a hard time rooting for a New York aggroup in the postseason but for Conine's sake. I wish they make it. On Baseball & the Reds is the blog of Justin Inaz a displaced Cincinnati Reds fan currently living in Phoenix. Arizona. You can contact Justin via email at

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