Welcome to the Wednesday (EBD) Late Nite Radio. Tonight’s featured song is a long-overdue response to a request from SDA commenter batb. I’ve hesitated because, while I love the song, the video itself, like a lot of videos produced by record labels (as opposed to some of the better fan-made ones) tends to distract more than it serves the song; I strongly suggest minimizing the screen while it plays, and just listening.
Here it is: Montreal homeboy Leonard Cohen’s paean to the eternal hope that is America, Democracy.
In a perhaps fruitless attempt to preempt inevitable criticisms from those who don’t like Leonard, I’d like to point out there is in fact a rather elegant, easy to use and one-hundred-percent effective technical solution to the problem: on the lower left side, just below the video image, there’s a little button that looks kinda like a little triangle tipped on its side; if you click on that while the video is playing, the video, and the sound, will stop!
Your are invited, as always, to provide your Reader Tips in the comments.
Hey, lookout! Welcome back! ‘Good to hear from you!
(Thanks, batb. I like the Anchoress too and Cohen’s “The Future”: he’s a prophet and I think he gets it just right. It’s not at all pretty, but that’s where we’re headed.
Have a fine day!)