In Lubbock, while working at the college paper many years ago, I heard that “nuevo wavo” musician Joe King Carrasco was coming to town. I had seen the Dumas, Texas native on “Saturday Night Live” (where he tore it up for a national audience), and I had a Carrasco record or two in my […]

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  Not being a political scientist, or historian or diplomat or economist —and certainly not politically correct — I don’t know why I should NOT ask this question. Why doesn’t the Mexican Government put it to the voters in that country?  How about if the U.S. annexes parts of Mexico that may want to become […]

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 … So this is one for only my most hardcore music nerd friends. See if I have lost it on this comparison … or could I be on to something? Since I have down time today, I broke out a famous album that I have never played, although it has been in my collection for […]

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