Healthy

Oh, let's just embrace the youtube-only turn this blog has taken.

Wildlife

One for Christina and Stephen:

Forever

Not feeling very verbal these days, but you should all hear this song, "Reggae Is Here Once Again" from 1979. The group, Steel an' Skin, was made up of a bunch of British nightclub musicians of African and Caribbean descent who got together in the mid-'70s for a community project designed to introduce schoolchildren to the music and culture of their ancestors. Hitting the sweet spot in a Venn diagram of reggae, disco, and calypso, it's perfect for the weather:

In a Nutshell

One can easily conclude that from any angle you care to look at it--left, right, whatever--American politics is a poorly scripted farce by reading this article.