A little bit country

Happy birthday Emmylou Harris.

Twist in my Sobriety

Tanita Tikaram performing Twist in my Sobriety.

Turn out the "Guiding Light"

Wow, this soap opera has been on the air for 72 years. It will be done in September.

More Bernie Fallout

What can I say? There are so many facets to this Madoff thing. That's what happens when you swindle investors out of 50 billion dollars. There are many players and eveything has to be examined.

Hey wait a minute, you didn't write that...

But you did write that essay. I've been following this case since its inception. He claims free speech and that he's a victim, being fired because he wrote an unpopular essay after 9/11 (really unpopular by the way). The university claims he plagiarized and falsified academic research. We'll see what the jury decides.

More signs of a bad economy

You knew this was going to happen. In the best of times there are usually some homeless people who use the public library as a spot for some down time. Most libraries have put policies in against sleeping in them to avoid just these types of scenarios. Many a sleep deprived student pulling an all nighter who has nodded off in a library can attest to that.

Also, just as funding is being cut because of the tough times, more and more laid off people are using the library and its services. A quote from the article.

"
Here in Arlington Heights, newly homeless patrons are showing up in their business suits," said Paula Moore, the library’s director.

Haiku

This haiku by Issa was written upon the death of his last surviving child. The first line of the haiku is from a scripture which compares the transitoriness of life to the transitoriness of dew.

This Dewdrop World-
a dewdrop world it is, and still,
although it is...

Issa (1762-1826)