When I heard Jacqueline Schwab play the piano for the first time, a couple years back, it was a revelatory moment. It reminded me what music is supposed to sound like, what it's all about. I actually got to take a couple lessons from her, back when I thought I had time to pursue the piano myself.
I heard through the grapevine that she was going to be on Letterman, backing up Jean Redpath. Letterman is on at 11:30 in this time zone, which means it might as well be on being broadcase on Mars as far as I'm concerned. But we taped it, and watched it, and some enterprising soul has put it on youtube. Just awesome.
This stuff is all over the news and in my face today
The Right has got cartoonsSenate testimony painted a stunning picture Wednesday of panicked Bush administration officials resorting to harsh interrogation techniques...
and the Left has got cartoons
and I found myself wondering whether the debate wouldn't be quite different if these guys had looked different. I mean, this guy is obviously just asking to be waterboarded four times a day every day for a month,
She reported being treated very well in Iraq, and that one person in the hospital even sang to her to help her feel at home.
