Wednesday, September 27, 2006

I posted an earlier version of this months ago.  This is an improved version; it's largely addition through subtraction, but at least it shows I don't understand how math is supposed to work.   Improvisation   Who can say where it begins? The inspiration, the feeling that leads a man to bend a note as no one has ever done before. To make a joke of anger, to make beauty out of rage. To take old standards and find new sounds and silences hidden inside, buried, but slumbering, untranquil, even dangerous, until, unearthed, in the open air, they make us tremble.   The ancient Greeks thought there were immoral noises. I say, play on. 3:37:14 PM    comment []

Maryland Race:  No Longer in Play?   Shortly after the Democratic Senate primary in Maryland, black Republicans asked defeated Democratic candidate Kweisi Mfume to endorse GOP candidate Michael Steele rather than the Democratic nominee Benjamin Cardin.  This probably would make Mfume's campaigning for Cardin a bigger story than it otherwise would be. But there's good news and bad news for the Steele camp:  The good news is that Mfume campaigning for Cardin is not a big deal.  The bad news is that's because political superstar Senator Barack Obama is campaigning for Cardin side-by-side with Mfume.  That would be like if...well, if the Republicans had an equally popular guy, and he was campaigning for Steele. It may be time to list the Maryland Senate race as officially over. 11:39:37 AM    comment []

Indiana Race   Mike Sodrel, the Republican Representative from Indiana, was on the News Hour Tuesday, and he looks unlikely to be re-elected.  Nothing is sure yet, but just how many people are willing to vote for a candidate who hitches his pants up above his belly button? That's just embarrassing. 11:29:44 AM    comment []

Quote for the Day, 9/27/2006   "As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead trying to kill me."   -George Orwell   Can you imagine someone granting the attachment to a civilization to the terrorists?  Given they are terrorists, this is no surprise.  And yet, while some of the terrorists fail of knowing their civilization's long and mostly-honorable history and traditions, many of them are only too aware of these things. 10:52:20 AM    comment []