Landmark case shines light on real campus rape ‘epidemic’: equating regret with rape
An excerpt: A landmark judicial decision was handed last week that will have important implications for college men wrongly accused of sexual assault. In Doe v. Washington & Lee Univ., 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 102426 (W.D. Va. 2015), a federal judge appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton ruled that when a college promotes the idea…
Read moreAretha Franklin and her bag full of cash
I had a rehearsal yesterday with a singer named Vaneese Thomas. She is the eldest daughter of Rufus Thomas. She is one bad ass singer and I am playing a gig with her on Sunday. Come down and check us out. We’ll be playing at 6PM HERE She knows EVERYBODY in the biz. During a break…
Read moreJohn Mayer-“Who Did You Think I Was” Crossroads Festival 2010
All you need to hear is from the 29th second to the 32nd second of this video. That drum fill is CRAZY! I gotta steal that. And yeah, Steve Jordan is killin’ throughout the rest of the song too. Damn, is he great. Oh, the bass player too…and hmmm… John Mayer can write a song…
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This track is incredible. I found it recently on YouTube and was blown away. I’ve always loved the song by the Police, but after hearing this drum track, my appreciation for how great it is increased to a whole other level. When I’m asked to play on tracks for artists who have songs with a…
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Max Roach
I know, I know. I’ve been delinquent in my jazz studies. There are a few musicians that I should have checked out long ago. I will keep their names to myself for now, but the one guy who I am listening to all day today is Max Roach. I’m “putting on” a bunch of albums of…
Read moreScientific Reasons Why Women Just Won’t Go For The Nice Guys
I’m glad I stopped that nice guy stuff. It got me nowhere. Pay attention fellas: An excerpt from this article: http://elitedaily.com/dating/science-women-nice-guys/1000116/ Most women claim to want the guy who is sensitive, emotionally fluent and intimate. Yet, when it comes down to it, women consistently chase after the “bad boy,” the guy who is narcissistic, self-absorbed and…
Read moreChild Support Enforcement and Guidelines are Unrealistic
By Joe Jones (jjones@cfuf.org) – the founder of the Center for Urban Families in Baltimore and Joan Entmacher Joe Jones (jentmacher@nwlc.org) is the vice president for Family Economic Security at the National Women’s Law Center. Raising a child takes a lot of love, time and money — and doing it alone is tough. Children need and…
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I’m listening to Dr. Dre’s new album “Compton.” Streaming it of course. He on a complete other level. I have always loved his production. His sound, his level of sonic depth, the funk, the musicality…he is a league of his own. I have outgrown the cursing, the killing, the gun imagery and everything that…
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