RIP J.D. Salinger and Howard Zinn

Your literature got me through some crazy transitional periods in my life, and for that I'm grateful. Your presences in the literary world will be greatly missed. Thank you for pushing the envelope.
     "Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.  You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know.  Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now.  Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.  You'll learn from them - if you want to.  Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you.  It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement.  And it isn't education.  It's history.  It's poetry." - J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye  

New favorite band

Thank you, Kara Joy! I am beyond obsessed. Please listen:

WTF of the Week

WTF, Massachusetts? You elect someone to replace Sen. Ted Kennedy - a man who paved the way for health care debate, battled for improved federal education spending and saw a real need for progress in American political logic - WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING? I understand we as citizens are slightly disgruntled on either side in regard to health care legislation and the state of the economy, but still.. Scott Brown? (Plus let's not forget what got us to this point in the first place. Coughderegulationcough)
     Maybe the tides are changing.. and producing a new voice for the people of Massachusetts, and if that truly is the case then I cannot argue democracy, but I have to say that I am dumbfounded.
     Here is a link to the Times article published today by Michael Cooper, which critiques the newly elected Senator. Just one little gem of a paragraph that I couldn't help leave out:
     "Even so, his election was a sharp swing of the pendulum. The Senate seat held for nearly half a century by Mr. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, will now be held for two years by a Republican who has said he supports waterboarding as an interrogation technique for terrorism suspects, opposes a federal cap-and-trade program to reduce carbon emissions and opposes a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants unless they leave the country."
     Oh, and there's this:

What were you smoking last night, Massholes?!

Hi, Meg

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