You Gotta Get an Album Out, You Owe it to the People

Since no one could come with an answer to the most recent Song of the Day contest, I have continued with lyrics from the same song until we find the answer.

This Week's "Those Who Live in Glass Houses Shouldn't Throw Stones" Award is given to: Ted Kennedy.

I realize that Judge Alito needed to be asked about his membership and possible involvement in the controversial group, Concerned Alumni of Princeton, but perhaps Ted should not be the most visible senator to be questioning a nominee about potential skeletons in their closet. Give that job to Patrick Leahy, Dianne Feinstein, Charles Schumer, or Joseph Biden, but next time let it fall to anyone but Ted. I'm sure that the whole time that Senator Kenendy was badgering Arlen Specter about gathering documents about CAP, Judge Alito wished he could turn the tables and start asking questions about a little incident called Chappaquiddick.

I began reading Collapse by Jared Diamond this week after finishing God is Closer than You Think. Diamond's most recent work follows the sweeping historic panorama that characterized his previous book, Guns, Germs and Steel, which won the Pulitzer, but instead of looking at the rise of human societies as GGS did, it instead focuses on the decisions that societies make which lead to their downfall.

It is often difficult to read Diamond's analysis of Mayan and Viking agricultural practices, but so far the book has presented a fascinating and often haunting picture of what happens to societies that exploit their natural resources without a second thought about their future.