An Evening (Weekend) Wasted with Tom Lehrer April 16-18, 2010 [View All]

Is Monday a holiday? It was in Massachusetts....and the Teabaggers would have it so. Well, if the market doesn't open, this thread will stay on.

In order to balance the insanities of the Market this week and especially this morning, we will refresh ourselves periodically with the witty insanities of:

Thomas Andrew "Tom" Lehrer (born April 9, 1928), an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He has lectured on mathematics and musical theater. Lehrer is best known for the pithy, humorous songs he recorded in the 1950s and 1960s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer

Remember the 50's and 60's, in this life or perhaps the previous? Air-raid drills in elementary school, Commie hunting Joe McCarthy, nuclear proliferation-- people actually worried about these things. Now we worry if all the best overpasses will be occupied by the time we are reduced to camping. There's still the purists who maintain that camping will be no hardship because it will be too hot to ever snow again...I'm not betting one way or the other. I am enjoying the spring.

The dandelions came out in force today--swaths of grass are glowing with those sunny yellow heads. So let's hear what Tom has to say about Nature:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY&feature=related

So hold onto a dandelion and/or a stiff drink while we peruse the economic events of the moment....and for the youngsters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY&feature=related