This makes me happy:
http://ninagordon.com/audio/straightouttacompton.mp3

enjoy!

Instructions: Take this list of authors, remove those whose efforts do not grace your shelves, and bring the list up to ten by adding some more that do. New paragraph indicates newly-added authors.

J.K. Rowling
William Shakespeare
James Joyce
Albert Camus
John Irving
Jane Austen
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ralph Ellison
Leo Tolstoy ( Read more... )

Well, this can't be good. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041206/ap_en_bu/clear_channel_fox

One more reason to detest Clear Channel (as if we needed more).

Take THAT, conservatives.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041129/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_gay_marriage

This Thursday, I'm going to take a trip. I'm going to either the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, or the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY. They're both about the same distance from here, and I'm having a tough time deciding where to go. Any input?

``There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.''

--Pres. William J. Clinton, during his 1993 inaugural address

I've been watching C-Span for hours. "American Perspectives." Interesting ideas. Following politics for most people is much like being a "fan" of music is for most people.

As of today, there are two years until the next major elections. Four years until the next federal elections. While my faith in the citizens of this nation is shaken, I refuse to believe that things can remain this way forever. Hell, I lived through 12 yearts of Reagan/Bush the First, and it only made me more idealistic ( Read more... )

We need more leadership that produces programs like LBJ's "Great Society." How can these things have been initiated 40 years ago, and yet we've built so little upon them ( Read more... )

From an email my friend Brian sent me ( Read more... )