Henry Qualls - Motherless Children

Sometimes called the last of the country blues musicians, Henry Qualls didn't get much attention until the nineties, when he began recording regularly and playing blues festivals. Here he is in the studio in 1994. He died in 2003.

Paul Simon - The Sound of Silence (9/11/2011, Ground Zero)

Krugman on Official European Folly

When you think that things can't get any worse on the world's financial stage, along come the leaders of the European Central Bank...

Financial turmoil in Europe is no longer a problem of small, peripheral economies like Greece. What’s under way right now is a full-scale market run on the much larger economies of Spain and Italy. At this point countries in crisis account for about a third of the euro area’s G.D.P., so the common European currency itself is under existential threat.

And all indications are that European leaders are unwilling even to acknowledge the nature of that threat, let alone deal with it effectively.

9/11

This photo was taken on the morning of September 11, 2001, by an astronaut on the shuttle. We are looking at the New York City metropolitan area. A trail of smoke from the twin towers goes from the center to the right.

The MSNBC article which has this pic is here.

Scene from the Bastrop Fire

From the Austin American-Statesman, a car that was burned and partially melted.

Krugman on Obama's Jobs Plan and the Republican Opposition

Maybe it'll get passed, maybe, cross your fingers...Dr K lays things out.

Jefferson Airplane - Thunk

Some late early psychedelia, so to speak. From 1972, a composition by their then drummer, Joe E. Covington.