Music Monday: Jinx Dawson, Coven and “One Tin Soldier”

| December 29, 2025

The 1971 recording of the song “One Tin Soldier” sung by Jinx Dawson, lead vocalist of Coven, is my pick for today’s Music Monday. It triggered some of last year’s book reading on “Kent State: An American Tragedy” and my post in TheHustings. For those living through the Vietnam and military draft era, music was […]

The many political ‘ISMs’ discussed in our culture today #TBT

| October 21, 2021

Every time I use political term with an “ism” these days, I sense I need to clarify the meaning as much as for myself as to the person I’m talking too. Often I’ll refer to an online resource in order to be sure that I’m not misspeaking … but usually its because the terms have […]

Desultory - des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee

  1. lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected; fitful: desultory conversation.
  2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.
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