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One day at the tail end of the 1970s, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker of Steely Dan were doing what they had spent much of that decade doing: sitting in the control room of an expensive recording studio, listening to one of the world’s top session musicians, and responding with a vague sense of dissatisfaction.  Over the speakers of Studio A-1 at A & R Recording in New York came the sounds of a still-embryonic “Time Out of Mind,” the jaunty heroin ditty that would be the second single from 1980’s Gaucho.

Last night, I wrote about Sophie Scholl and the resistance movement The White Rose (you can read it here). Today, it was 80 years ago that she, her brother Hans, and their friend, Christoph Probst, were executed by her fascist fellow countrymen in Nazi Germany for distributing pamphlets. "Somebody, after all, had to make a start," Sophie defiantly told the judge. And she is often quoted saying "what does my death matter if by our acts thousands are warned and alerted?

What’s the most important challenge facing the UK right now? Is it the woefully low productivity growth since 2008, leading to real wages staying static or falling? Is it the NHS being essentially unable to provide a functional service, with achingly long waits for ambulances and treatment? Is it the prospect of frighteningly high heating bills in the coming winter, to add to escalating vehicle fuel bills as the pound clatters downwards against the dollar?

Austin has had popular musical residencies since Kenneth Threadgill’s tavern/fillin’ station on North Lamar hosted Wednesday’s “hootenannies” in the late ‘40’s. Who needed club listings when you had Tex Thomas and the Dangling Wranglers at Hut’s on Sundays, Bad Livers at Saxon Pub on Mondays, Erik Hokkanen at Flipnotics on Tuesdays, Jon Dee Graham at the Continental on Wednesday, Cornell Hurd at Jovita’s on Thursdays and so on? Musicians love the weekly gig because it keeps them going the other six days.

The accompanying shiur is available on the Orthodox Union's parsha learning app: All Parsha. In my eighth grade yearbook, each Rebbe wrote a message to the students. Although I wasn’t in his class, I still remember the message that Rabbi Shoneck wrote. “You know me,” it began, “I’m your caterer.” Rabbi Shoneck then quoted the opening Rashi to Parshas Mishpatim: ואלה המשפטים אשר תשים לפניהם—and these are the statutes that I have placed before you, which Rashi explains means that Torah should be taught like food placed by a caterer in front of their diners—ready to eat and appreciate.

The day before Sora Tob Sakana performed their farewell show on Sunday, Sep. 6, the idol group’s chief producer Yoshimasa Terui dug up an old photo from 2015 of the release day of their first single, “Yozora Wo Zenbu.” The tag line written by the Tower Records staff captured the group’s unique aesthetic—“an underwater-like world and a dreamy, surreal atmosphere”—and the copy concluded with an apt RIYL: “for fans of post-rock/electronica, this is the ultimate single for you.

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Thank you, Tyler. Here's why I think the convictions won't matter much to the "If Trump's convicted, I won't vote for him" crowd except at the far margins. Trump faces four criminal cases: the hush-money payments in New York, the insurrection case in D.C. (even though it doesn't include an insurrection charge, but it clearly concerns activity correlated with the insurrection), the documents-related case in Florida, and the sprawling election-interference case in Georgia -- 91 felony counts in all.