January 2009
A bird piped suddenly, and was still
A light breeze sprang up and set the reeds and bulrushes rustling. So beautiful and strange and new. Since it was to end so soon, I almost wish I had never heard it. For it has roused a longing in me that is pain, and nothing seems worth while but just to hear that sound once more and go on listening to it forever. The beauty of it! The merry bubble and joy, the thin, clear, happy call of the...
“Everything that happens in government is motivated by self-interest. Someone is...”
– Kevin Nealon, Weeds
Congratulations, Al Franken, D-MN
Jane Curtin: Well, the 1970’s are in their final month, and with some thoughts on this decade and the one we’re about to enter, here’s Weekend Update’s Social Sciences Editor Al Franken.
Al Franken: Thank you, Jane. Well, the “me” decade is almost over, and good riddance, and far as I’m concerned. The 70’s were simply 10 years of people thinking of...
