World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
Ken Follet
I wonder how World War 2 will be viewed a century from now.
A year ago, I put a couple of Babymetal’s songs up because they are amusing as hell. So, as we end August, let’s do another.
I’m not even going to bother with lyrics.
Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.
Dr. Walter Williams
“Country bands thank God, rappers thank themselves, rock bands thank no one, and heavy metal bands thank the audience.”
From Penn’s Sunday School with Dee Snider of Twisted Sister
Day when people complained that the Feds weren’t spending enough on law enforcement. In some ways, this song has become a parody of itself.
Lyrics in the YouTube video.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself.
Dr. Richard Feynman
How could you not like a song with a title like that? Plus, it’s a decent song.
Lyrics:
You’ve turned your back on me
And left me alone
I saw this house, so high
You’ve turned your back on me
And left me alone
I saw this house, so high
– Will it take me to the sky
Another life, another soul
Taken by yourself esteem
16.6 floors to realize my dream
There was just one more way
And the ice cold wind howled through the night
I heard a distant scream
I’d never believed the door extreme
There’s just a one way street
Without an exit for us all to leave And here we stay and nothing more to say
Let me burn – burn me alive
Got a bullet with your name on it
Hits you straight between the eyes
Let me burn – burn me alive
Guess it’s time to teach a lesson
Gonna pack my
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the Manhattan Project
Thursday is the seventieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima with the second bomb being dropped on Nagasaki two days later. So, we’ll go with a Sabaton song about the event.
Lyrics in the YouTube video.
Where the Moss Grows is an urban fantasy that Kenn Blamchard and I developed. Kenn had the original idea, I wrote the story, and then Kenn narrated it. The audiobook is now available!
