Just as relevant today

Dylan. 1965. Worth a listen before YouTube removes it.

While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the President of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.

Book lovers need never go to bed alone

Dedicated to the bookshelves of the biblio class, this Tumblr page has all the good bookshelf porn.

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

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Selected Election Night tweets from Driftglass

• By talking about 1994, Radical Socialist Lester Holt is asserting that history did not begin on 01/20/09. Why does he hate America?
• Party of Chumps & Millionaires doing well. If you voted for them, check your wallet. If there's not a million dollars in it, guess what?
• BREAKING: Fox calls Florida for George Bush.
• BREAKING: Paladino concedes. Promises to "leave gun" but "take cannoli"...
• BREAKING: Ed Rendell proposes Zombie Dick Nixon for Obama Chief of Staff. After all, he does know Washington...
• I guess God did have a Plan for Sharron Angle. And that plan was losing.

Driftglass has more here!

Two for a friend

Central Park, NY. 1981

The best Benny Goodman tune EVAH. From the soundtrack to the movie Swing Kids. Turn the volume up