Nobody, not even the rain, has so few pencils.

And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.

The end of Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot.

I’ve long held that the quiet corruption of the D.C. press corps - not everyone, but a substantial percentage at the top - is a huge problem. You shouldn’t be schmoozjng and eating canapés with the people you are supposed to hold accountable.

I think that’s got to be at least some of it. I’m hearing from faculty everywhere that students aren’t reading. I saw a survey that said 50 percent of teens never read. I don’t know how accurate that is, but if true, it’s frightening.

I used to drive between college in Portland and home in New Jersey. Wyoming in winter was terrifying.

Eastern Wyoming enters the chat.

No worries! I was more baffled than aggrieved.

I have no clue how you got the idea that I lowered my standards out of what I wrote.

As an alumnus, I agree. This is so disappointing.

This really made my decision to retire easy. Students nonchalantly saying they hadn’t read a 2,000-word news feature because it was “too long,” acting like I was insane for assigning a magazine article. That was 2020 and I’m sure it’s only gotten worse. It’s so frustrating.

Sorry that was seven. Bad at math

Bonnie Raitt
John Prine
Robert Earl Keen
Sarah Harmer
Fred Eaglesmith
McCoy Tyner

Gonna add Richard Lloyd (with Television, Matthew Sweet, Health & Happiness Show, and Butch Hancock)

Such a great album.

Ozzie

“Challenge scientific orthodoxy” makes him sound like Galileo.