How We Listen

This article comes highly recommended. Not because it's about the Grateful Dead (a band I respect, although I'm far from a Dead Head.) But don't let the subject scare you off either.

This is a fascinating look by Ben Ratliff at the layers of listening to any longtime band or artist. Or perhaps I should say the layers of how each of us listens to those artists.

Just buy the paper!

Come on, people, does the government have to do everything for you? Now 37% of Americans say they support the government putting taxpayer money into failing newspapers to keep them going.

If that 37% would just buy a daily subscription to their local paper, the newspaper crisis would be over.