"Strawberry Road" - Sam Phillips
Wanted to post this from same record (the greatest Beatles album not recorded by the Beatles), but embedding not permitted. I think it was because this couplet has been running through my head all day:
Pictures steal our memories
Turn our minds to salt
History is written to say it wasn’t our fault, wasn’t our fault
Laboring away at the office on tasks both deadly dull and precise (not really my strong suit), so I have not so much looked at a newspaper or TV today. In thinking about Egypt, my mind kept flashing on Tiananmen Square in 1989 and Iran a decade earlier, but I'm wondering if this is just a superficial thing that a little knowledge of history and powerful images does to one. Each time and place is unique and our desire to see patterns and analagous antecedent moments can, I think, be illusory. But with John McCain as our guide, I am sure we will figure it all out. (The unwillingness of the Sunday talk shows to actually engage experts during moments like this is but another reason to hope for their extinction.)
So what's going on out there?
