On the record
Madonna – Confessions on a Dance Floor
Elis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim – Elis & Tom
The Pledge
I thought I would test out an on-line translator (http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr). What follows is the American Pledge of Allegiance–translated from English to Italian and then back to English. Enjoy.
“Engagement the allegiance to the small flag of the joined one I declare of the America and to the Republic to which it corresponds, one nation under [...]
On the record
Saint Etienne – Good Humor
Pet Shop Boys – Fundamental
Politics, Monk and Thai.
The Democrats have some guts. The house just passed a bill setting a timetable (September 2008) for withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Iraq. While this bill was laden with no small amount of pork—$24,000,000,000 for irrelevant domestic spending (see New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/washington/24cong.html?hp)—it is a step in the right direction in terms of what it [...]
Maureen Dowd & The Amazing Discovery
College was an amazing time for me in that I had a lot of Thai food, a lot of fun and no small amount of amusement from the antics of those in the world around me. In my up and coming Brooklyn [...]