LISTENING TO:
Goodbye Jumbo
World Party

I’ve been wanting to get this for over a dozen years; this reamastered version is well worth that wait.

When I finally received it, I’d forgotten how good it was. A handful a classics on this one disc, with Put the Message in the Box the highlight of the CD, to me.

All music

I’ve mentioned this before, but it still seems true: The U.S. can’t visit the Middle East except as on a non-planned (i.e. surprise) visit.

I understand the reasoning, but still – three years (!) after the invasion, about two and half years after “Mission Accomplished” and so on, we are still coming into the Middle East via the back door:

Rice, Rumsfeld make surprise visits to Iraq

Sometimes it just doesn’t pay to be a Superpower….