take five

This song written by Paul Desmond and performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet is one of the best ever.

Claire De Lune

this song brings me to tears

twilight

I'm watching the movie and they're playing the Claire de Lune, one of my all-time favorite songs. great movie too, should probably read the book.

Bobby Jindal's volcano erupted

To quote John Aravosis:

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Bobby Jindal's volcano erupted

by John Aravosis (DC)

The one he was criticizing the monitoring of? Just erupted in the last day or so. A friend writes:

Erupted 4 times overnight. Nobody’s dead. The FAA and the National Weather Service know where the ash cloud is (drifting away, not toward, Anchorage, thank God) and planes are being diverted around it. Gee, it’s a good thing people were monitoring.

The eruption was accurately predicted when the number of earthquakes on the mountain suddenly jumped to 40 to 50 per hour Sunday morning. So everybody had time to get ready.

Your tax dollars put to work by dedicated scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey who keep doing their jobs even when politicians decide to demean their work for a cheap sound bite.

If we were approaching this from a less scientific perspective, some might be tempted to appease the volcano gods by throwing somebody into the crater. Since he doesn’t like volcano monitoring, perhaps Bobby Jindal would volunteer?

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Bill O'Reilly is smarter than karl rove

i feel like an idiot for saying this. has o'reilly turned a new leaf? i'm so confused?

Jim Cramer

hey, the guy did and excellent job on the Jon Stewart show. He was grilled and responded respectively. I was impressed and am subsequently supporting the guy. He took the burden/bridle of everything finance related. I guess, based on this interview, that he is a good man. at the very least, he's got some balls.

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