Piano Repertoire

Here are songs I can play to some degree:

Blue Bayou
Let It Be
Hurt
Get Back
When the Saints Go Marching In
Kumbaya (thus confirming every Joe Klein stereotype)
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Michael Row Your Boat Ashore

Not bad for someone who has been playing since mid-December

Surge

Everybody is commenting on how subdued the chimperor looked last night in his speech. It's my contention that he looked very rehearsed. The reason he rehearsed is because his handlers didn't want him smirking. (Isn't it interesting how Snow talked about smirking a couple days back?)

Swampland

Time has a new blog, Swampland. The problem with it is that it is a very top-down blog. It takes forever for authors to approve the comments (authors approve comments, wtf!?) Say what you will about D-kos (like some of their posters are militant vegans), but their blog is easily the best run political blog on the internet. They are pretty much the reason that old media and Delay are into blogging right now.