OK. I originally latched onto Five Finger Death Punch when some enterprising marine set a USMC birthday video to their cover of “Bad Company” from War is the Answer. It’s in that small percentage of songs where I consider the cover vastly superior to the original, though admittedly it does help that I’ve never been a fan of the band Bad Company. I also loved the answer he gave to whythe album was called what it was – namely, that everything is struggle, at its base. I know some liberal heads ex…
I’d recently posted about musing [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/12/be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html] if Jill Stein’s recount push was gross and statistically improbable total failure, or black knighting. In either case, more failures from the vote recount [http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-15/more-detroit-voting-irregularities-95-poll-books-missing-days-5-still-no-where-be-fo] under the “what do you mean voter fraud” department: > Last night we noted that Team Hillary, which was suppor…
One of the musical traditions that I grew up with folk – the old-world norther European kind as well as the underlying scots-irish that formed the backbone of Country music. So it’s no surprise that yes, a couple Gordon Lightfoot songs are among my favorites that I’ve loved since my teens. I’m also throwing in some Disturbed – though more in power ballad mode – and a very old-school folk song, that like most scots-irish songs not about drinking, is about infidelity and death. The original versi…
It’s amazing what a good artist can do on a suitable canvas, including that of the marvelous Kate Upton [](https://thelastredoubt.com/content/images/2016/12/36ea6652ebdcb96697773ea8a29b5518-2.jpg) [](https://thelastredoubt.com/content/images/2016/12/Abbey-Clancy-Sexy-Body-Paint…
Some, no, make that most people, simply have no idea how mind numbingly boring much of military life can be if you don’t develop the ability to “self soothe” in psycho-babble. This of course is one reason why military people are usually far better read, much less educated (with or without a college degree) than most liberals would ever believe. See the USMC Commandant’s “required reading [http://guides.grc.usmcu.edu/usmcreadinglist]” list. last I checked it no longer includes RAH’s “Starship Tr…