Leave it to McCain to protect us from the enemy. Quick! There is a child molester at every corner! Unfortunately GOP (Group of Perverts)and McCain are the enemy.
But hey, it’s ok to kill them,says McCain.

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 11 2006 11:56 utc | 104

Today we learn that Enron’s outside law firm, Vinson & Elkins, has escaped unscathed. The Enron debacle sucked in many people, but the lawyers have so far not been held liable. But many have asked:what about the lawyers (pdf) ?

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Dec 11 2006 19:25 utc | 106

slothrup:
Thanks again for the concert. I never followed Anthony Braxton. It was a plaesure to listen to this. I lost track of jazz after Eric Dolphy died.
Eric seemed to be the end of a strain that went from Bird, at least, to Trane to himself that was not only musically inventive, in the miraculous way of jazz, with walk-ons of extraordinary, well practiced ability, deeply knowledgeable and appreciative of all that had gone before, showing up to carry the music forward, but who also had a deep personal feeling for the spiritual qualities of the music.
Anna missed had a quote from Cecil Taylor, I can’t find it now, but I saw one from Trane in Wikipedia that struck me as right.
“I would like to bring to people something like happiness. I would like to discover a method so that if I want it to rain, it will start right away to rain. If one of my friends is ill, I’d like to play a certain song and he will be cured; when he’d be broke, I’d bring out a different song and immediately he’d receive all the money he needed.”
And that’s what his music does for me. His and Monk’s and Dolphy’s and Cecil’s, and Memphis Slim’s.
To me it’s the best stuff America has ever produced.
Strangely America doesn’t seem to value it at all.
The Japanese have long since bought it all, Blue Note, Verve, you name it.
That’s the tell. A nation that let all that jazz slip through it’s fingers no longer knew the value of anything at all.

Posted by: John Francis Lee | Dec 12 2006 9:45 utc | 108