Lonnie Mack - Memphis

A 1963 instrumental version of Chuck Berry's great song.

Krugman on the New Carbon Pollution Rules

I could say something cute, but hey, why not just say it's here.

For what it’s worth, however, the attacks on the new rules mainly involve the three C’s: conspiracy, cost and China. That is, right-wingers claim that there isn’t any global warming, that it’s all a hoax promulgated by thousands of scientists around the world; that taking action to limit greenhouse gas emissions would devastate the economy; and that, anyway, U.S. policy can’t accomplish anything because China will just go on spewing stuff into the atmosphere.

I don’t want to say much about the conspiracy theorizing, except to point out that any attempt to make sense of current American politics must take into account this particular indicator of the Republican Party’s descent into madness. There is, however, a lot to say about both the cost and China issues.

Mumford & Sons - The Boxer

who can calculate the periodicity of nada?

Nothing today, sorry.

Mance Lipscomb - Motherless Children

From Les Blank's film A Well Spent Life.

Bruce Springsteen - Your Own Worst Enemy

Been a while since I posted some Bruce, so why not.

Vera Lynn - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

In 1940 Britain was already at war, and the young, who love love and are the ones who go to war, wanted to hear songs like this, understandably.