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Silence the pianos and with muffled drum, Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead, Scribbling in the sky the message He is Dead. Farewell, Uncle Teddy. You were the best of us; our great hero. Read Full Story

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Actions as well as words are a faithful barometer of the judgement that guides a person’s life. John Mccain’s words are full of reasons for us to make sure he never sets foot in the White House except as a visitor. According to John McCain, General Petraeus travels Iraq in an unarmored vehicle(!). According to John [...] Read Full Story

Hank Jones, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dianne Reeves, Roy Hargrove, Roy Hanes, Jeff Tain Watts, Aaron Goldberg, Bilal, Edsel Gomez, Joe Lovano, Christian McBride, Brad Mehldau and so many others whose names I don't have at hand but whose performances were stunning. It's impopssible to capture the of such a signal event for a lover of Jazz. This assemblage of Jazz luminaries will most likely never happen again. I'm still in shock. The standing-ovations still seem too short. Read Full Story

One of the core issues facing the Congress in considering the passage of this bill is the need for there to be clear bi-partisan support for any plan. It is insufficient for any one party to comprise the passing majority with a bill of this magnitutue. If that were to be the case it would [...] Read Full Story

So, today’s befuddlingly stupid comment from the possible next VP, who didn’t know what the Vice President’s job was and wasn’t paying attention to Iraq in 2007 and seemed to think that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were government owned is that the economic bailout is about Healthcare reform. I kid you not. Here’s the [...] Read Full Story

So Obama contacted McCain, had a discussion, then McCain jumps in front of the media to say he’s cancelling his campaign. Seems like it was a surprise to Obama. Guess all’s fair in love and politics.  Obama made some good points. First of all: a president needs to be able to do more than one thing [...] Read Full Story

Hmmm…smells fishy to me. I think this is just another McCain stunt. His campaign is so bankrupt of substantive ideas that can stand the light of day that they have to resort to running from the campaign. McCain knows that if they have the debate this Friday they’ll need to discuss the economy and that’s [...] Read Full Story

So, to recap the last couple of weeks, our economy is in meltdown and the only way out of it is to empower Hank Paulson with $700 billion and unquestioned power for two years. Oh, did you miss that last part in the nightly news coverage of this bailout? Read Full Story